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    Deeply Responsible Business

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    • 03 Feb 2015
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    First Look: February 3

    Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm conduct depend in part on... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Apr 2015
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    First Look: April 21

    private equity investments suggest that the results are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. April... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Oct 2006
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    First Look: October 12, 2006

    Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School; and Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law... View Details
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    Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

    New England, shares his journey from environmental science to state and federal leadership roles. He highlights how the clean energy transition in the United States is being driven by public policy, community engagement, and new funding... View Details
    • February 2023
    • Article

    National Models of Climate Governance Among Major Emitters

    By: Johnathan Guy, Esther Shears and Jonas Meckling
    National climate institutions structure the process of climate mitigation policymaking and shape climate policy ambition and performance. Countries have, for example, been building science bodies, passing climate laws and creating new agencies. Here we provide the... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Regulation; Policy; Analytics and Data Science; Climate Change
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    • April 1994 (Revised January 1995)
    • Case

    StarKist (A)

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt
    Set in April 1990, this case focuses on H.J. Heinz and its subsidiary, StarKist, the largest producer of canned tuna in the United States. During the 1980s, the public became increasingly concerned about tuna fishing practices that killed dolphins. StarKist was the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Laws and Statutes; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Environmental Sustainability; Competition; Mexico; United States
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    • 16 Sep 2008
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    First Look: September 16, 2008

    pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code View Details
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

    By: David Moss and Mary Oey
    What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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    • 2008
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

    By: David Moss and Mary Oey

    The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms of political support. Indeed, many... View Details

    Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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    • 2008
    • Simulation

    DEC v. Riverside

    By: David A. Lax, James K. Sebenius, Lawrence Susskind and Thomas Weeks
    Riverside Lumber is a pulp manufacturer in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. Riverside regularly dumps effluent into a nearby river. The Division of Environmental Conservation (DEC) claims that the effluent is toxic and jeopardizes the local salmon catch.... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Conflict Management; Cooperation; Courts and Trials; Decision Choices and Conditions; Natural Environment; Negotiation; Pulp and Paper Industry; Northwestern United States
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    • 02 Oct 2012
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    First Look: October 2

    an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven by both the social and the environmental dimension of CSR. Read the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Placement - Doctoral

    Samuel G. Hanson Talia B. Gillis Business Economics, 2022 Placement: Columbia Law School, Associate Professor of Law Dissertation: Essays in Household Finance and Consumer Protection Advisors: John Beshears... View Details
    • March 2001 (Revised April 2002)
    • Case

    Ginzel et al v. Kolcraft Enterprises et al (A)

    By: Michael A. Wheeler
    Examines the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of an infant who died after a portable crib collapsed. The manufacturer, Kolcraft, licensed the Playskool brand name from the co-defendant, Hasbro Industries. Raises difficult questions about what the two... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Product; Negotiation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 30 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

    benefits to many, and if we don't look out, we may kill it." From Prediction To Fruition Problems that forum participants cited included environmental degradation, trade breakdowns, and failure of the rule of law. Concerns over the lack... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 17 May 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

    Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim
    • March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
    • Case

    Reading Energy

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt
    Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois
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    Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances

    By: Josh Lerner and Dan Elfenbein
    We explore the relationship between exclusivity and state-contingent control rights using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. We find that stronger exclusivity arrangements are associated with more frequent usage of contingent control rights. For... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Governance Controls; Internet and the Web; Ownership
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    the United States is being driven by public policy, community engagement, and new funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. He explains the U.S. EPA’s role in balancing climate action with economic... View Details