Law And Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
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Connecting people and policymakers in a conversation online

After taking an active role in Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, in which she discovered how much she enjoyed canvassing voters and talking to people, Elsa Sze (MBA/MPP 2014) wanted to extend the intensity of political engagement beyond... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

if city regulators wanted to see the impact of licensing three new businesses on a particular block, they could monitor changes in Google Street Views, cross-referencing that data with online reviews in the neighborhood View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

18 Apr 2014
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Strengthening the bond between the U.S. and China

Former US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (MBA 1970) talks about his current work in US-China relations as CEO of the Paulson Institute. (Published April 2014) View Details

December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
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Making UK Energy Smarter

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details

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04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

the Challenge." He was joined by a specialist in Islamic law, Harvard Law School professor Frank E. Vogel, for the series' discussion on doing business in the Islamic world. Vogel and Hayes are also... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

May 2021 (Revised November 2024)
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Colombia: An Economic Premium to Peace?

By: Richard Vietor

Colombia, once the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity have been low for the past decade, despite economic growth of 4.7% annually. Many factors contribute, which... View Details

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Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property Rights and National Sovereignty

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Rafiq Ahmed

Keywords: Investment; Property; Rights

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and also served as an Institute Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

need to cut the cost of a building by 10 percent in order to make the numbers work, they need to understand what has been given up. I'd like them to be better at visualizing the impact of what is being created and its effect on the user... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

intending to idealize what we have called the bona fide professions, we believe that the comparison we undertake in this paper has merit as a way of suggesting how management as an institution might be reformed, other than through the blunt instruments of View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

and pride. Taken together, our results highlight how revealing the failures encountered on the way to success can be a counterintuitive yet effective interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Download... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2002
Case

Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (C2): Race, Class, and School Choice

Presents the decision by the Federal Court of Appeals for the ninth Circuit in the spring of 2002 to invalidate Seattle's use of race as a factor in allocating space in Seattle's oversubscribed schools. Summarizes the posture and content of the litigation, including... View Details

Keywords: Management; Leadership; Income; Social Entrepreneurship; Race; Lawsuits and Litigation; Education; Education Industry; Seattle

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14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

on the Ideal Gas Law and its effects on a football’s pounds per square inch (PSI) of air pressure. TRADITION OF SUCCESS The class discussion evolved from whether the Patriots were guilty of doctoring... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

2011
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From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States

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Ishita Sen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. She teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Sen’s research focuses on financial intermediation, asset pricing, and insurance markets. In her current... View Details

29 Sep 2015
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Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

undercutting an era of new opportunity for American workers that I call Work 3.0. Work 1.0 existed through roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Almost any worker who wasn’t self-employed was a company’s employee. Work 2.0, our present stage, emerged as... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective

Europe passed laws resembling America's Sherman Act. The European Community in particular instituted stringent regulations designed to break down trade barriers and maximize... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

April 2008 (Revised August 2008)
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AT&T v. Microsoft (B): District Court Ruling and Appeal

By: Willy C. Shih

The (B) case follows the course of Microsoft's settlement with AT&T, and its appeal in the issue of foreign replicated software that eventually goes to the U.S. Supreme Court. It is intended for follow-up the discussion of the (A) case with what happened, examining a... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Conflict and Resolution; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry

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