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  • 05 Mar 2020
  • News

Green Light

Chief among vertical farming’s costs is energy. “It’s the industry’s dirty little secret,” says Lo. So noticeable is indoor farming’s drain on a local grid, she notes, that law enforcement used to monitor spikes in electricity demand to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117113-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-114 Management Control Systems Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

metrics, relying on independent auditors, and attempting to enforce compliance. Is this a plausible path forward? This note summarizes work in history, political science, and economics—drawing particularly on the work of Eleanor Ostrom—to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions. For clear violations of applicable rules, we find that outside specialists are most effective at excluding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

number of distinct predictions about the cost of capital for alternatives relative to traditional mean-variance analysis. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-013.pdf Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

stringent inspections and enforcement of safety standards in Bangladesh's garment factories. The proposal was met by opposition from several U.S. firms, which claimed the proposal carried too a high a risk of litigation for them to sign.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

behavior. The student has been arrested on allegations of serious criminal behavior or has been charged with such behavior by law enforcement authorities. Risk to the community. The student has allegedly violated a disciplinary rule of... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

liability has developed into one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas of legal practice. The growth of corporate criminal enforcement has correlated with a broad shift in how the government investigates and resolves corporate... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

multi-tasking problems. Contracts often specify provisions that are unobservable or difficult to verify, suggesting a role for expected litigation as an enforcement tool in contract design. Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

management. After controlling for the materiality of the restatement, firms from weak rule of law countries are more likely to opt for less visible restatement disclosure methods. We interpret these findings as home country enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

"preliminary" agreement can have binding effect. This note explores the circumstances under which MOUs may give rise to binding and enforceable agreements. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312018-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

taught that you’ve got to be better. You’ve got to work twice as hard and be twice as good to get half as far." ShotSpotter has developed technology to help law enforcement detect and locate gunfire, and Clark believes that the officers... View Details
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markets. Educational Objectives The majority of economic growth is now occurring in countries that are not historically wealthy high-income democracies, and where many of the textbook assumptions regarding how markets function—such as the View Details