Regulated - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was created by the passage of the 1906 Federal Food and Drugs Act, regulates companies and industries accounting for one-quarter of all consumer spending, roughly $1.5 trillion worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

20 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

by fake original prices, and regulators should consider cracking down on the practice more aggressively. “There is an attitude among a few policymakers that consumers are savvy enough anyway, and that, relative to other forms of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

capital firms. 54 In addition, ARD was formed as a closed-end investment fund regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which placed limits on how those working for ARD could be compensated. Employees, for example, were... View Details

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

discuss the core challenges of fighting global carbon dioxide emissions in a shortsighted, ideologically polarized environment. To his mind, both in Europe and in the United States, government efforts to regulate carbon emissions have... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

9 May 2011 - 11 May 2011
Conference Presentation

How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure

By: Anil Doshi, Michael Toffel and Glen W. S. Dowell

When new institutional pressures arise, which organizations are particularly likely to resist or acquiesce? When subjected to new information disclosure mandates, an increasingly popular form of market-based government regulation, which types of organizations are... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School

. By Matthew C. Weinzierl on February 18, 2025 . Data and Technology America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind Featuring Shane M. Greenstein and Raffaella Sadun . By Danna Lorch on February 10, 2025 . Regulation and... View Details

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GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology

information. The most notable is the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but other countries are adopting similar resolutions. From Harvard's GDPR Resource Website : The General Data Protection View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

more difficult than anyone would wish. According to Mills, who offered the closing comments at the Restoring Confidence in American Business conference held at Harvard Business School on April 21, which drew about 350 attendees, it is clear that View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

on what is measured rather than finding the best ways to be effective. There’s also the issue of regulation. Specific data privacy regulations already in place, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

06 Dec 2021
News

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

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests. Economists use the term... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

onto patients. To work, a public plan must be regulated and have independent governance, and, if it is well-designed, it might inspire competition from private insurers—leading to better value for patients. Regina E. Herzlinger, The Nancy... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

2022
Case

Marathon Petroleum and Southwest Detroit: The Intersection of Community and Environment

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Environmental racism describes the unequal burden of environmental hazards placed on disadvantaged communities through systems, policies, and practices. In such a situation, these people disproportionately live close to sources of toxic waste-what are referred to as... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Regulation; Pollutants; Pollution; Equality and Inequality; Social Issues; Poverty; Race; Health Disorders; Ethics

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23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

have been largely hoping to weather the storm and conduct business as usual as best as they can in the meantime. This has created an adversarial relationship between US businesses and the US government. Legislators and regulators view... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

to negotiate the Brexit endgame, she might well consider three lessons from Wilson’s futile diplomacy during his last year in office. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55708 2018 Yale Journal on Regulation... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

building an organization. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/496023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-051 Tapestry Networks Tapestry Networks assembled industry leaders and their regulators in small, private meetings to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Blog

How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy

safety precautions. At the heart of these efforts is a policy requiring masks indoors. We also have provided guidelines for social distancing, created procedures for holding on-campus meetings or events, and implemented regulations for... View Details

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

the primary objective for financial reporting standards will result in a GAAP that is unlikely to adequately serve stakeholders' needs. The theory allows us to compare and contrast extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with... View Details