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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
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
associated with entering the political process help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
were huge, particularly since fair trade legislation had been proposed and defeated in almost every US congressional session since 1912. Fair trade networks continued post—World War II, although the concept began to come under... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
solve some of the biggest problems we are facing in society. Issues like inequality seem so daunting that it can be tempting to sit back and wait for government and policy-leaders who will legislate or regulate solutions. I’d urge you to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations
By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
Friedman, Jeremy, and David Lane. "The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations." Harvard Business School Case 723-001, September 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
information, they argue, it follows that our potential to develop a particular disease will matter less and less to insurers. The general consensus, however, is that new legislation will be required in the meantime for this and a host of... 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
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Black-white problems is this wealth disparity, and that that wealth disparity is approximately $153,000. Therefore, I recommend that readers use a template that we created and included in the book and write to your Congressman or Congresswoman supporting HR 40, which... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
on think tanks or the American Legislative Exchange Council. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
incorporated into a project that led to legislation to ban all shark hunting in the area, including the British Virgin Islands. Some of the other work associated with that trip was worked on to basically, look at-- with the University of... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Although work in an area where there was not much regulatory or legislative guidance assuaged the Disclosure Committee's fears of accidentally violating regulations or taking on extra liability by reporting on non-financial information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
innovation. As an example, she cited California’s 2014 legislation banning single-use plastic bags. “Growing up, we never used a plastic bag once! We used them as trash bags and even shower caps. Our communities have always been careful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
securities exchanges to register with the Federal Trade Commission, would curtail the size of loans that could be advanced to securities investors, and would ban a number of practices (such as short-selling) that were thought to facilitate stock manipulation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
these predictions empirically by examining how the 1996 repeal of certificate-of-need (CON) legislation in Pennsylvania affected the market for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in the state. Within a few years of the repeal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
of an evolving financial system," says Moss. Persuaded by Moss's analysis, the Congressional Oversight Panel placed the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of View Details