Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

2017
Working Paper

Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values

By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean

This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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July 2010
Supplement

Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (B)

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

The (B) case describes how Credit Suisse management allocated the cost of the 25% U.K. banker's tax among shareholders, U.K. managing directors, and the other employees globally. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Cost; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Compensation and Benefits; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland; United Kingdom

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2010
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From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Centralization and Fragmentation of Pharmacovigilance

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Adverse drug reactions pose distinct but potentially catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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April 2024
Article

Model-based Financial Regulations Impair the Transition to Net-zero Carbon Emissions

By: Matteo Gasparini, Matthew C. Ives, Ben Carr, Sophie Fry and Eric Beinhocker

Investments via the financial system are essential for fostering the green transition. However, the role of existing financial regulations in influencing investment decisions is understudied. Here we analyse data from the European Banking Authority to show that... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Sources

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23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2003
News

Student Conferences, at a Glance

Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard The private sector holds the key to reform in Latin America — but the task of inspiring and involving business at a time when profits all over the region are plummeting is more... View Details

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

01 Jun 2017
News

The End of the Noncompete Clause

shorten the time employees have to wait between jobs or introduce a requirement that former employees be compensated during the noncompete term. In Massachusetts, where Johnson founded Common Commute, a commute-sharing startup, noncompete View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Herman I. Safin

political reforms of perestroika -- Safin's educational and professional background has prepared him well for a career in the global economy. The winner of the first public elections ever held at his high school, Safin served as student... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

13 Jan 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus Bond Supply

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Dimitri Vayanos; Financial Services

August 2022
Article

Regulatory Considerations to Keep Pace with Innovation in Digital Health Products

By: John Torous, Ariel Dora Stern and Florence T. Bourgeois

Rapid innovation and proliferation of software as a medical device have accelerated the clinical use of digital technologies across a wide array of medical conditions. Current regulatory pathways were developed for traditional (hardware) medical devices and offer a... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
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Ant Financial (D)

By: Feng Zhu, Krishna G. Palepu, Kerry Herman and Susie Ma

The (D) case updates the case series from the time of Ant’s planned IPO, and the Chinese government’s regulatory shifts. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; China; Beijing

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15 Apr 2011
Conference Presentation

Lords of the Harvest: Reputation Concerns and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Reputation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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25 Nov 1991
Lecture

Global Patterns in Corporate Governance and Regulation

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Governance

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02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Noel Maurer Abstract Abstract We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

particular tool put forward in reforms is the idea of "say on pay," which gives shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. The Obama administration has proposed requiring it in all public... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

government should speed up its reforms in the internal sector rather than scale back external sector reforms. Q: On the influence of émigrés, you write, "With the help of its diaspora, China has won the race to be the world's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 2021
Case

China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry

By: William C. Kirby, Bonnie Yining Cao and John P. McHugh

China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry had over 3,000 platforms at its height in 2015. China Risk Finance (CRF) was one of the country’s P2P success stories. With over 1 million borrowers using CRF’s platform, it raised $60 million in its 2016 IPO on the New York... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; P2P Lending; Government And Business; Regulation; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China

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