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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Fetter, a senior lecturer, is former CEO of Tenet Healthcare. Regulations that limit care might be loosened Richard Hamermesh: Cutting the red tape in diagnostic testing The crisis has revealed the weakest part of our medical system—the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Decision Processes Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making By: Gino, Francesca, and J.J. Lee Abstract—This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
may actually hurt you, and if you can't respond adequately on your own, you can put a spanner in the works by forcing regulators in your industry to institute antitrust proceedings. For example, among telecommunications companies, the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product... View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
from regulators rose by 15 percent. He also found that the nature of many violations was more severe in towns without newspapers. “If you can do whatever you want and no one is looking, you’re more likely or more willing to engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
have been largely hoping to weather the storm and conduct business as usual as best as they can in the meantime. This has created an adversarial relationship between US businesses and the US government. Legislators and regulators view... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
the primary objective for financial reporting standards will result in a GAAP that is unlikely to adequately serve stakeholders' needs. The theory allows us to compare and contrast extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
realize that, despite an initial hands-off approach, they will eventually have to think about what kinds of policies make sense for a new technology. As the book describes, regulators can either intervene at the start of a new market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
public-private partnership model that increases US economic growth and helps create access and opportunity for all Americans. Related reading: Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending. The State of Small Business... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'
By: Richard Vietor
South Africa, like most other countries, is in the process of reducing its carbon emissions to comply with COP26 and, hopefully, reach net zero emissions by 2050. However, because South Africa relies almost wholly on coal (93%) for electricity, and on coal for... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Economic Development; Climate Change; Coal Mining; Emission Reduction; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Law; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Natural Resources; Energy Policy; Energy Sources; South Africa
Vietor, Richard. "South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'." Harvard Business School Case 722-069, June 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
companies slightly more than $20 million to defend. (I didn’t have to recall these details; I Googled them at no cost.) Even then, however, market definition and monopoly pricing power proved to be complicated issues for regulators to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
debunk the opposition's claims that regulating greenhouse gases will lead to economic catastrophe. Those very same arguments have been made time and again when environmental regulations have been proposed.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Role of Business Leaders in Sustaining Market Capitalism
solves problems by self-correcting, there is still a belief that business leaders must act ethically. Light regulation across all aspects of the business world could promote greater transparency. To sustain market capitalism, businesses... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
undercapitalized, incompetent insurance entrants will be reduced by competition and regulation by state regulatory bodies. Q: In your new article in Harvard Business Review, you write, "The current health insurance system in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
measurement and disclosure of important metrics and information. In this chapter, we examine the effect of sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices and valuations. Specifically, we explore the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators. The challenge in designing third-party monitoring regimes is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne