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2024
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Fecal Microbiota Transplants —Too Simple to be Safe? Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By 2013, after many decades of very slow development and adoption, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation procedures were attracting widespread attention. This case history chronicles the: 1) pioneering fecal transplants performed in the 20th century; 2) development of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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Research: The Cost of a Single U.S. Immigration Restriction

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon

On June 22, 2020, President Trump passed an Executive Order drastically cutting the number of highly skilled international workers eligible for non-immigrant visas to the U.S. To quantify the impact of this policy, the authors examined the immediate change in stock... View Details

Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Restriction; Impact; Immigration; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost; Economy

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December 2004
Article

Old Rules and New Realities: Corporate Tax Policy in a Global Setting

By: Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Policy; Business Ventures

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spring 1983
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The Evolution of International Banking Competition and Its Implications for Regulation

By: D. B. Crane and Samuel L. Hayes III

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Competition; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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01 Sep 2003
News

Good for Laughs

If there are jokes to be found amid the wave of corporate scandals, they’re usually on the shareholders. But hey, did you hear the one about the overcompensated CEOs? “They found out that making too much money is not nearly as bad as pretending to make too much money.”... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

1984
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Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn

By: T. K. McCraw

Keywords: Economic History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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December 1971
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Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-Time Model

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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July 22, 1990
Article

Japan Isn't Playing by Different Rules

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Japan

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April 2002
Article

If You Want Honesty, Break Some Rules

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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1994
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Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America

By: Richard H. K. Vietor

This book explains how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. The four stories illustrate the dynamic process of... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States

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Spring 1981
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Deregulating and Self-Regulating

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

statute quite similar to that in California, barring the enforcement of noncompete agreements. This law governed all such disputes until March of 1985, when it was repealed as part of the Michigan Antitrust Reform Act. Now, comparing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

August 2006
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Information Regulation: Do the Victims of Externalities Pay Attention?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Miki Mitsunari

Keywords: Information; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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13 Apr 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector

Keywords: by Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal; Energy

14 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

Pharmaceutical regulators around the world tend to speed through drug applications in December and before major national holidays, according to new research that might raise questions about COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments under review. A study by Lauren H.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Pharmaceutical; Health