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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

Keywords: Carbon Dioxide Removal; Climate Change; Markets; Cost; Policy; Environmental Regulation

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09 Apr 2024
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2020
News

Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

challenge the way things have traditionally worked. Vincent Pons: In populist discourse you often have this idea that a country has been governed by a political and economic elite hurting the interests of the people. If you systematically... View Details

Keywords: April White

Antonio Celia

Keywords: Natural Resources

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

lived through the end of history more than once, however, and policymakers continue to relearn old lessons about the difficulties of regulation and the risks of liberalization. The idea that capital ought to flow unrestricted across the... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

complex situations led me to become a doctoral student at Harvard Law School. Focusing on consumer financial regulation it became clear that to address the questions I was interested in I needed the theoretical foundation and training... View Details

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2000
News

Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers

standardization, and regulation. She was careful to clarify the regulation phase. "What I'm talking about are the basic, underlying rules, which are primarily rules of property rights," said Spar. She thinks View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Microsoft; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

19 Jan 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

why. Key concepts include: Regulations and laws offer little guidance about what specifically boards should do, and, given this lack of specificity, most boards have gradually developed an implicit understanding of what their job should... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Fast Answer

Biotech, Medical devices, and Pharmaceuticals: regulatory information

Tip: may use the search function to have a jump start. Nexis Uni – IP cases, case law, government document. FDA Regulatory Information portal Emergo -- Web site of regulatory consulting firm provides... View Details

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

supply contamination, etc.), as long as production takes place in a state or other legal jurisdiction with a history of sensible oil and gas production regulations and regulatory capacity in-place to enforce those regulations. “Cleaning... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not the concept of alignment; it is, among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2023
Case

Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian

This case study 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 (UNFCCC) to build momentum for, and ultimately pass, the 2015... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership

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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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

Sanjay Lalbhai

Keywords: Textiles

Binod Chaudhary

Keywords: Diversified

Anand Burman

Keywords: Natural Consumer Products

23 Mar 2023
News

SVB Crash Analysis

banking system, the government should follow the lead of other countries and create “payment banks” that take little-to-no risk, are highly regulated, and have access to the payment network. Silicon Valley Bank’s Focus on Startups Was a... View Details

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

subsequently reduced their scrutiny over voluntary disclosers, which suggests that self-reporting can help regulators economize government enforcement resources and develop cooperative relationships with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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