Government Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. Pharmaceutical companies have long opposed efforts to regulate drug prices, arguing that prices reflect the companies’ massive research investments. But Germany’s approach shows... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

causes of the scandals were systemic rather than a matter of a proverbial "few bad apples." In the panel, moderated by HBS professor Krishna Palepu, panelists also said that new laws ,and regulations were already making a... View Details

Keywords: by Catherine Walsh

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

should the government play in subsidizing or regulating access to capital for startups? A: I wrote a book about five years ago called Boulevard of Broken Dreams around View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

sector. But this research leads me to believe that the right kind of regulatory framework and institutional policies are fundamental to making it possible. Shon R. Hiatt, Assistant Professor Of Business Administration In the US, states and local View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

Profile

Thomas Grenier

yourself." The program has also opened up cultural perspectives. Thomas says, "In classes, we talk a great deal about the European emphasis on government regulation and the American belief in free... View Details

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

examples drawn from take-back regulations promulgated in Europe, Japan, and the United States governing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Download the paper:... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment, however, while selective streamlining... View Details

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

companies we visited were supportive of market interventions by government policy and regulation to encourage sustainable investments. For example, Grolsch shared that taxes on landfilling (which is now... View Details

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

government regulation would dampen the great universities' genius for discovery. Ideally, the faculty members, administrators, and alumni who best appreciate the totality of the university's contributions to... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-021.pdf Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path out of Polarization

in which this new media landscape is making demands on us. That has always been the case outside the United States in smaller markets. The biggest source of bias is not that it becomes more left or more right; it’s whether the government... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

going public, except in unusual circumstances. The prospectus is full of language originally intended to inform an investor, but which now protects the offerers. This is a well-known dynamic of regulation, in which those regulated adapt... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Jun 2010
News

Faculty Books

emerging markets’ potential and crafting strategies for succeeding in those markets. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the "win-win" rhetoric surrounding these... View Details