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01 Sep 2024
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Turning Point: Make Your Life Count

finance, policy, and regulations designer. Despite my childhood poverty, my upbringing was full of love and joy. While my parents have since passed, I continue to act on the lessons they taught me about resilience. “Make your life count,”... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Three Promoted to Full Professor

Reinhardt is currently studying the relationships between business behavior and environmental quality, particularly in the energy industry and the food and agribusiness sector. His research focuses on the relationship between environmental View Details

March 2025
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Hurtigruten: Sea Zero

By: Christian Kaps and Michael W. Toffel

Hurtigruten was deciding whether the next ship they built should be fully electric. But such a vessel's battery, the size of electric cars, needed to be charged on the ship's multi-day voyage along the Norwegian coast. Before making such a $250 million investment, the... View Details

Keywords: Energy Sources; Alternative Energy; Ship Transportation; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Management; Green Technology; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Shipping Industry; Tourism Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Battery Industry; Norway; Europe

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2.3 Community Standards of Conduct | MBA

for one’s own well-being, including responsible decision-making regarding physical and mental health. Further, HBS expects every student to be familiar with the regulations governing membership in the Harvard community set forth in this... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

banks, so to impose a new tax seems like a counterproductive, political maneuver. Third, only a truly multilateral effort would succeed, and I don't see that happening. I'm all for fixing the financial sector's problems, but I'd go about it via View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

25 Sep 2008
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Been There, Seen That

emeritus Sam Hayes: “The October 19 crash also calls into question the de facto rules and regulations that we’ve been working with for the last fifty years or so and how far we have come from the assumptions underlying the reform... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government; Management

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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

17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral

Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

14 Sep 2018
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Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis

Fight the Next Financial Crisis,” noting that to contain the damage of any future crises, “the Treasury and financial regulators need adequate firefighting tools.” They warn, too, of complacency, saying that, “We must also resist calls to... View Details

29 May 2006
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How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

system of laws and regulations that provide more latitude to large organizations in their dealings with employees, customers, suppliers, and competitors. In recent years, questions have been raised about whether those laws and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

05 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

for centuries in India. Additionally, the ecosystem serves a critical role in regulating the area’s hydrological cycle, ensuring a supply of fresh water2. Regulating the environment: Mangrove trees are a... View Details

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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

navigate and shape an environment in which competition, technology and regulation are constantly changing. We will look at a variety of financial institutions and financial service providers including banks, nonbank financial... View Details

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/social-strategies-that-work/ar/1 Working PapersCarbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions Authors:David F. Drake Abstract Carbon View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2015
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Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab

regulating fishing, while another team worked with homeless people to create artwork that would generate income. “The students are fantastic,” says Datar. “A key aspect of the experience is learning to connect with people who are... View Details

22 Sep 2009
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The Case for Regulatory Reform

guarantees” that compel the government to bail out large financial institutions. Moss’s own reform ideas have helped frame the ongoing Washington debate and make a clear, persuasive argument for more federal regulation of financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

01 Mar 2010
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Déjà Vu All Over Again

common cyclical nature, whether the crash in question was fueled by land speculation, railroad expansion, the booming life insurance industry, or lax regulation of regional stock exchanges. So, will a deeper understanding of these moments... View Details

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

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

voluminous collection of extraordinarily descriptive letters and diaries, they took care to meticulously preserve the company’s documents and journals—from partnership agreements and export lists to custom regulations and ship designs.... View Details

15 Apr 2011
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Students Hear Wall St. Critics

cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides said, is a climate in which “too... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project | Information Technology

the town faced other potentially serious challenges including new regulations that could negatively impact the lobstering industry, which was the major source of income for most island residents. With uncertainty coming from multiple... View Details

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Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Course Catalog

struggle for Indian independence, apartheid-era South Africa, and conflicts in the Middle East, are examined. The cases, set across centuries, continents and industries, explore how different contexts and regulations have provided... View Details

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