Government Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

Hamdi Akın

Keywords: Construction, infrastructure

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

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

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

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Student Handbook | MBA

study complies with all policies. Although we have attempted to include most of the regulations governing graduate academic programs, some programs have additional requirements and View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Faculty Books

Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant by Michel Anteby (Princeton University Press) Employees know that not every workplace regulation must be followed. When... View Details

November 2021
Article

Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization

By: Jonas Meckling

Industrial policy has begun to move into the center of debates on climate policy. This represents a shift away from climate policy as we know it—as classic environmental policy. Industrial policy and environmental policy differ in their policy goals, policy... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Regulation; Policy; Government and Politics; Climate Change

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Keywords: Telecoms, NGO

Rahmi M. Koç

Keywords: Diversified

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

statements, Facebook has lobbied against further regulation by government, typically ranking in the top 10 US spenders on lobbying efforts. What’s the solution? To Facebook’s credit, it has been partnering with View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog

strategies are likely – or unlikely – to succeed. We will also examine the impact of government policies and regulations, both from a business standpoint and through the broader lens of societal implications. Prominent View Details

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

01 Dec 2010
News

Showtime

in business. Later, Dan Smith (MBA ’76), president and CEO of Sycamore Networks, and Steve Pagliuca (MBA ’82), managing director of Bain Capital, discussed their views on how government regulations put U.S.... 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

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

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

Bary Roberts

Keywords: Ecotourism

March 2022
Article

Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy

By: Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm

When can states implement policies against the opposition from powerful interest groups? Research on state capacity has examined bureaucratic sources of capacity, leaving unexplained why countries with similar levels of bureaucratic capacity vary in goal attainment. We... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Policy; Environmental Regulation