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- Feb 2013
- Survey
Competitiveness at a Crossroads
business leaders and policymakers can take to improve U.S. competitiveness. For example, across the political spectrum, business leaders and the general public strongly called on the President and Congress to put the federal budget on a sustainable path, View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
emerging economies. Huang's observations came on the first day of the seminar, which centered on the architecture of financial systems. Enrico Perotti of the University of Amsterdam discussed a related topic - how to build confidence in emerging stock markets. "Markets... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
proposal: “To reform the current system,” Pozen wrote in Bloomberg Businessweek, “Congress should exempt from US taxes corporate income earned in foreign countries with an effective corporate tax rate of 20 percent or higher. Such... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
branch dominates? Does this structure preclude us from ever seeing the kind of reform you advocate? A: We strongly believe in the importance of the checks and balances, particularly as a means of curbing corruption. But inefficiencies are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
being purged. Without them, there would be no progress. Most set aside nationalist objections, for now, to rebuild their country. But repairing war damage is all a weakened technical class can achieve. Progress requires investment, which requires security. Instead,... View Details
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- Working Paper
Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector
By: Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal
We construct a novel dataset on electricity generation, wholesale transactions, and retail
sales to assess the shift from cost-of-service regulation to deregulated, market-based prices
in the context of the U.S. electricity sector. Consistent with earlier studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Deregulation; Market Power; Markups; Prices; Electricity; Energy; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Price; Utilities Industry
MacKay, Alexander, and Ignacia Mercadal. "Do Markets Reduce Prices? Evidence from the Electricity Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-095, February 2021. (Revised March 2024. Direct download.)
- 2004
- Book
Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords: Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; United States; Germany
Daemmrich, Arthur A. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. (Winner of Edward Kremers Award of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy For best book in pharmaco-historical writing published in the previous two years presented by American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.)
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Sir David Clementi Named BBC Chairman
(Getty Images) (Getty Images) Sir David Clementi (MBA 1975), former deputy governor of the Bank of England and former chairman of Prudential, has been confirmed as the next chairman of the BBC. Clementi led a review of the BBC’s operations last year, which included his... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
fruitless attempts to access information during a stint with KPMG Peat Marwick in Poland and while working with an economic reform team in Russia. Mueller credits his brother George, his business partner and technology expert, with the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
annual improvements of between 11 and 39 percent, earning the school widespread acclaim. London’s Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United States, and one... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
Without an individual mandate, instead of buying their own insurance, most of the sick will qualify for subsidized coverage either in the public health insurance exchanges created under health care reform or in Medicaid. Staggering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
away many of the influences that corrupt sound decision-making. However, neither Bradley nor McCain, the candidates who were running on campaign reform in 2000, was able to sell it to the American people. We haven’t talked very much yet... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170... View Details
- August 2006
- Article
Information Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Miki Mitsunari
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Miki Mitsunari. "Information Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?" Journal of Regulatory Economics 30, no. 2 (August 2006): 141–158.
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Tools of the Trade | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
focusing on large-scale school district reform efforts. “I loved seeing things at the 30,000-foot level, but I’m happiest when I’m in execution and implementation mode, making things happen directly,” explains Varón, who prior to HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
that chicken-and-egg situation. Similarly, health-care systems will need to integrate so that they can wrap their arms around all the pieces of the system that must be interdependently reconfigured.” Related Links A New Approach to Health-Care View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
Tobin-seeded research contributed to key elements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, in addition to shaping the Obama administration's approach to evaluating the efficacy of regulations across agencies. How... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future research. Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
India’s reform process is more arduous than in authoritarian China. But in India, there’s more of a collective “buy-in” to reforms because the interests of all constituencies have been considered. What areas... View Details