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- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
still doesn't adequately represent that. Norway has instituted a rule that 40 percent of corporate directors in that country must be women, but I don't think that kind of edict coming from the federal government would fly here, partly because the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
"Boardroom Challenges," The Future of Boards Why so many directors were reflecting on the board's role is difficult to pinpoint. A partial answer undoubtedly rests in the fact that regulations and laws offer little guidance about what... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
China, have made major headway with developing their smart grids, but progress in the United States has been slow. "It's rolling out much more slowly than people expected. Consumers seem less interested in its capabilities. The View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
for tomorrow: the knowledge-based spaces such as advertising, media, software, biotech, research, and genomics. The government doesn't really know how to grab onto some physical asset, because there are no interventionist rules and View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
models in India, no Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg to show us that it can be done. In India, the impression was that, unless you were born into the right family, you just couldn’t make it. Third, the venture capitalists never came to India until recently. They were... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the presence of additional informed investors in bad times, but each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
more than mechanistic structures that defined work roles and regulated economic action. Mayo, Roethlisberger, and their followers saw organizations as social systems characterized by ideals, values, and, ideally, a purpose. An individual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-024 Evolving Trends in Global Trade The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
follow from that." The Root Of All Scandals In 2008, greedy bankers became high-profile value claimers and nearly took the entire world into a depression, Hall says. They were slapped with tighter financial regulations as a result.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
competitive markets—and the importance of realizing when a policy is what creates intense market competition in the first place. "If regulators care about the efficacy of these policies, they should be oversampling their inspections... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
trade systems would help it adapt more easily to new regulations than its competitors. ("This looked like a better bet maybe five years ago when it made this call than it does today," he allowed.) One last possibility, and a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
also looking at the “transition risks” associated with shifting to a lower-carbon economy. New and more stringent regulations and practices will likely spur that transition, though it’s unclear how, when, and to what extent these changes... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Bowl running back Arian Foster," according to a company press release. Fantex paid $10 million for a minority stake in Foster's brand. At the Harvard forum, Foster said that Security and Exchange Commission regulations prohibit him... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
PublicationsRegulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Economica (September 2011) Abstract We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
obtaining both good and bad news from their school-tied firms, but perhaps as a tacit agreement, acting only on the positive news." Importantly, the research takes into account stock returns in the years before and after the October 2000 adoption View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
instance, and the fact that telecom industry regulations vary from country to country, which means networking prices vary, too.) The findings were consistently parallel with the hypotheses: An increase in the penetration of ERP systems... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
is unlikely to materialize without changing payment models and incentives to promote value over volume. Achieving such a seismic shift in incentive structures will require time, energy, and collaborative efforts. As technology advances, so must the policies and systems... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
sector for long-dated assets drives the long end of the yield curve. We draw on changes in regulations in several European countries between 2008 and 2013 to provide well-identified evidence on the effect of the P&I sector on yields... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne