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Health App Policy: International Comparison of Nine Countries' Approaches

By: Anna Essén, Ariel Dora Stern, Christoffer Bjerre Haase, Josip Car, Felix Greaves, Dragana Paparova, Steven Vandeput, Rik Wehrens and David W. Bates

An abundant and growing supply of digital health applications (apps) exists in the commercial tech-sector, which can be bewildering for clinicians, patients, and payers. A growing challenge for the health care system is therefore to facilitate the identification of... View Details

Keywords: Digital Health; Apps; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Policy; Global Range; Applications and Software

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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

environmental regulation on business by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. Since then, Professor Porter and the Institute have continued to explore how new... View Details

05 Oct 2023
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A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)

problems demand public-private cooperation. We’ll only achieve our climate goals if private firms develop innovative technologies and public regulators keep a tight lid on emissions. Similarly, policymakers cannot fix our country’s wage... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

able to exploit their customers in their times of need. Better regulation of small consumer lenders in the 1920s both opened access to credit and reduced borrowers’ vulnerability. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College... View Details

04 Apr 2023
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Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

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Student Research - Doctoral

gifts? Donations to 501(c)(3)'s are increasingly given unrestricted due to concerns that restrictions on use unduly constrain nonprofits. I study the effect of such funding on recipients using a $5B sample of MacKenzie Scott's gifts... 2025 Article Nature... View Details

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

that dwarf those of other stakeholders. However, businesses can’t do it alone. NGOs need to collaborate with business, bringing new expertise and deep relationships with stakeholders. Governments need to invest in infrastructure, jumpstart markets, and View Details

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

control—it creates an environment in which individuals regulate themselves in ways helpful to the organization and to themselves. But empowering individuals to self-regulate requires that the company trust them and grant them a measure of... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

businesspeople and regulators in the summer of 2015 led me to ask: How much do business elites in China really trust the CCP? Is China like Indonesia, one major financial crisis away from political chaos, or like Malaysia, likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Environmental Quality Rethinking regulation & competitiveness. Publications & Resources 16 Dec 2011 Harvard Business Press Books Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition & Strategy by Joan Magretta 01 Oct 2008... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

firms in the supply chain to their mutual advantage. Finally, while it might be more difficult to achieve, a very similar relationship can evolve between direct competitors and between firms and their government regulators. It may come as a surprise to some business... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

relationships between those who regulate them, serve them, and invest in them. That’s a lot of substance among responses to this month’s column. As Ulrich Nettesheim put it, “It is an excellent time to be reexamining how we currently... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

level regulating against outsourcing, controlling borders to discourage labor migration, or training for "quality"—including attitude and skills as well as other attributes? What do you think? Original Article Over the past... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

fund. A hedge fund investor must have at least $1.5 million in net worth to invest. The funds are regulated little and do not report their activities, trades, and balances. The smaller investor cannot play this game successfully. He or... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

leverage social media platforms to provide useful information and “use their influence to promote philanthropic endeavors and advocate for economic freedom.” When regulations lack bite Pacelli does not recommend outlawing paid promotion... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova

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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

indicate about the respective market environments? How did business leaders in India, Chile and the Gulf respond to the liberalization of regulation in their respective countries? What challenges did liberalization present, and what... View Details

10 Dec 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Vulnerable Banks

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Banking; Financial Services

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

wine grapes in Argentina and salmon in Chile. Q: What do you see happening in supply chain regulation based on your own research? A: I am looking at a variety of industry self-regulation programs that firms are implementing, often in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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