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Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian

This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership

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November 2021
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Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization

By: Jonas Meckling

Industrial policy has begun to move into the center of debates on climate policy. This represents a shift away from climate policy as we know it—as classic environmental policy. Industrial policy and environmental policy differ in their policy goals, policy... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Regulation; Policy; Government and Politics; Climate Change

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Keywords: Telecoms, NGO

Naina Lal Kidwai

Keywords: Financial Services, Banking, Sanitation

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

company’s response to the complaint, but the class discussion turned to the motivations of the man who revealed the wrongdoing. Have you ever thought about blowing the whistle? Dey asked her students. Their response: We’ve thought about it, but it is so costly. At a... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details

25 May 2020
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Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

aggregate this information through various forms of screening, certifications, and online reviews. “Fundamentally, occupational licensing exists to increase consumer trust in service providers.” Government regulation also exists to ensure... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

Bary Roberts

Keywords: Ecotourism

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown

less regulation and more opportunities for something like this to happen. Sam Bankman-Fried’s idea in the beginning was actually fine; he was taking a risk, and it was all legal. But when he couldn’t make as many profits as he wanted, my... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Dec 2003
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Selling Digital Privacy

If regulation won’t stop privacy invasion, what will? HBS professor John Deighton has an answer that involves convincing companies to pay us consumers to use our private information. Instead of relying on View Details

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

01 Jun 2010
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Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform

lot better than the alternative. We would have had a disaster on the order of the Great Depression.” Paulson proposed two key reforms. The first would be the creation of a systemic risk regulator to monitor markets and intervene when any... View Details

Keywords: federal bailouts; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

Paul B. Wishart

Under Wishart’s direction, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, a pioneer producer of automatic control devices, became Honeywell, Incorporated, a diversified electronics manufacturer. While putting Honeywell on a path of... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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Talia Gillis

complex situations led me to become a doctoral student at Harvard Law School. Focusing on consumer financial regulation it became clear that to address the questions I was interested in I needed the theoretical foundation and training... View Details

14 May 2019
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Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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3.5 Withdrawals, Leaves of Absence, & Return of Federal/Title IV Funding | MBA

3.5 Withdrawals, Leaves of Absence, & Return of Federal/Title IV Funding For details, please refer to Section 1.11 - Leaves of Absence . Students receiving financial assistance will typically have their assistance adjusted consistent with the change in charges.... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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