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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
have both financial and social returns. A company that doesn’t live its ESG goals is fundamentally more risky over the long term.” Like other young entrepreneurs whom Climate Stories is profiling, Janice’s CEO duties include helping to shape View Details
- February 2011
- Background Note
Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act
By: Robert C. Pozen, Phillip Andrews and David Lane
This note summarizes the four major changes affecting corporate governance that were made by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
Pozen, Robert C., Phillip Andrews, and David Lane. "Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act." Harvard Business School Background Note 311-091, February 2011.
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
much unstoppable when he sets his sights on something. In the past, that has included carving green space out of Atlanta’s urban wastelands; writing legislation to preserve Georgia’s Native American archaeological sites threatened by... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
and legislative reforms in the face of uncertainty and resistance from an incumbent oligopoly. When Kahlon entered office, three cellular companies, Pelephone, Cellcom, and Partner (the Big Three), dominated the market. Against Big Three... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
chemical industry lobby. In all three of these cases (and especially in the latter two), the proposed legislation became unstoppable in the aftermath of a relevant horror story-e.g., Love Canal, in the case of Superfund-that received... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had made a relatively small... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
care system, and the controls in the legislation are either worrisome (the Independent Payment Advisory Board, for example, allows a handful of people rather than the American public to cap health care expenses) or unrealistic, relying on... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
the forefront of American public policy. Press attention, congressional investigations, and legislative debates are highlighting the complex risk choices faced by patients, physicians, industry, and regulators in the post-market arena. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
comerciales que operaron en el entonces Territorio Nacional de La Pampa a principios del siglo XX. Rural Credit: Historical Discussions and Legislation in Argentina (El crédito rural: proyectos legislativos y discusiones contemporáneas... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
transformative legislation will increase the solar investment tax credit to 30% and extend it to 2032, instead of declining to 10% in 2024.” Diana added: “It will spur creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs, enhance the grid with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
campaign finance reform? I'm very supportive of it. Money is way too important here in Washington. People who contribute the most influence legislation the most. And that's obviously contrary to our democracy. How has your own financial... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
changing this since it is focused on the material issues that affect a company’s ability to create value over the short-, medium-, and long-term. Each country must take its own path to integrated reporting. This is illustrated by analyzing the different regulatory and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
would investors pay for them?—and this means regulation and legislation relying on ratings becomes much harder to implement. The third type of model, which I have seen proposed recently, is some form of fixed payments (called "bond... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
and legislative debates and processes, ranging from campaign contributions to lobbying to political activism. In 2016, Target CEO Brian Cornell must determine how to respond to the debate over North Carolina's recently signed law,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Two well-documented problems can derail government programs to boost new venture activity. First, they can simply get it wrong: allocating funds and support in an inept or, even worse, counterproductive manner. Decisions that seem plausible within the halls of a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
twenty years of experience at J.P. Morgan & Company, where he headed global investment banking and global equities. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation and product innovation on Wall Street, Rose said. “By the end of the 1990s,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
Business Lending, gaps persist in certain areas of the small-business market, and regulatory overhang continues to create pressures on small business credit. Government Steps To Loosen Credit Three landmark pieces of legislation passed... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
legislation and regulation that block disruptive approaches from being used anywhere until they are certifiably good enough to used everywhere. This traps the industry where it began, in the expertise-intensive world of high costs.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- September 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Case
River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
MBA student William Chism, the founder of a fully integrated medical marijuana company based in Mississippi, must respond to a significant disruption in the fledgling industry. In late 2023, Rapid Analytics, one of two active licensed testing facilities, has its... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Growth and Maturation; Forecasting and Prediction; Microeconomics; Local Range; Government Legislation; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Competitive Strategy; Governance Controls; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Mississippi
Greenwood, Robin, Richard S. Ruback, and Robert Ialenti. "River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market." Harvard Business School Case 225-011, September 2024. (Revised October 2024.)