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- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
Enforcers of regulatory laws are making some headway, particularly since the passage last summer of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, but their work as a whole needs more teeth, according to panelists at the session on regulation and enforcement.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 2023
- Article
A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal
By: Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith and Myles Allen
The deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be scaled up to achieve net zero emission pledges. In this paper we survey the policy mechanisms currently in place globally to incentivise CDR, together with an estimate of what different mechanisms are paying... View Details
Hickey, Conor, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith, and Myles Allen. "A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal." Frontiers in Climate 4, no. 258 (2023).
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
one Fred Smith, the young CEO of Federal Express, who had been required under previous regulation to use small, inefficient aircraft to transport freight or else submit to stringent government regulation. It... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
level the consumer seems to benefit What are the downsides for consumers?: no choice in platform content feed from ‘preferred’ sources, personal information, and pattern recognition issues to name a few. So governance and policy settings... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
1989 to 2014, using data from LexisNexis, the Mass Shootings in America (MSA) project at Stanford University, and a list of shootings created by USA Today. They focused on state rather than Federal regulations, as state governments are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 2024
- Case
Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (A)
By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
Sebenius, James K., Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro, and Mina Subramanian. "Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (A)." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2024.
- 2024
- Case
Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)
By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
Sebenius, James K., Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro, and Mina Subramanian. "Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)." Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School Case, 2024.
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
groups are the company's adversaries. At times, that view is justified; some regulators and advocates are indeed hostile to business. But government and nonprofit organizations will always play a role in... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
government programs. [Editor's note: In a nutshell, regulatory capture refers to the tendency of regulators to favor, in effect, the interest of the industry they are supposed to be View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
product, it can affect the entire supply for that brand. China implemented stricter food safety laws in April 2015, but the country may not have enough qualified enforcement staff. And inspectors don’t always enforce regulations as... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
that begged the U.S. government to regulate the radio market in the late 1920s, and firms that pushed the British state to finally put an end to piracy. In retrospect, of course, it all makes sense: for once... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
it? Kenny: It's a real lack of transparency. George: When I was writing the case I was in Europe, and the European regulations, GDPR General Data Protection Regulations, came out. You had to approve Google and Facebook if you wanted to use the sites. The Europeans... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
We showed it to important business leaders—some HBS alumni, some not—from around the world and asked them for their views on potential problem areas and what role HBS might play in addressing them. The fact is that in many parts of the world, firms are not privately... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation. Frances Frei: Ask us for a better version of ourselves It’s hard to overstate the positive business impact of government that embraces... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman