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- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
[industrial facilities].”[15] She also notes in her book that Indigenous communities are often targeted for certain polluting facilities and are a major group impacted by environmental racism. These trends are exacerbated by the legacy of redlining, the government... View Details
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prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in employment; and Massachusetts laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. It does not preclude application or View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
George Floyd’s murder last year forced many people to recognize the systemic racism that pervades American institutions, from law enforcement to health care. Even so, identifying those inequities is... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy protections. Bankruptcy View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
enforcement on air pollution controls. In California, OpenCounter streamlined registration for small businesses and provided zoning clearances in a fraction of the usual time. In New York, Mark43 is developing software to analyze crime... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
well-documented by law enforcement groups, advocacy organizations, and public surveys in the United States since COVID-19 upended the world in 2020. In March of 2020, then-President Donald Trump dubbed... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Most of us tend not to think of capitalism as a moral system. The prevailing view of the free market, among laypeople and economists alike, is that it's one step removed from the law of the jungle. But the fact is that capitalism has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
monitoring the securities markets and approximately 28,000 registered entities and individuals that interact with those markets, to make sure they’re complying with federal securities laws. “If we believe a person or a company has run afoul of the federal securities... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Some Reflections on the Antitrust Treatment of Intellectual Property
By: Tracy R. Lewis and Dennis A. Yao
Abridged version in The Financial Times, The Complete MBA Companion, 1997, pp. 577-582. View Details
Lewis, Tracy R., and Dennis A. Yao. "Some Reflections on the Antitrust Treatment of Intellectual Property." Antitrust Law Journal 63, no. 2 (1995): 603–619. (Abridged version in The Financial Times, The Complete MBA Companion, 1997, pp.577-582. Harvard users click here for full text.)
- June 1990
- Case
Image of the Police
Greyser, Stephen A. "Image of the Police." Harvard Business School Case 590-123, June 1990.
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Grayson University Police Force TN
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
this.' It was almost like, now I couldn't resist what I really wanted to do. It was great." More than her legal experience, however, Brochu sees her business background as really making the difference in her work. "The models of law View Details
- June 1984 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Commissioner v. Duberstein
By: Henry B. Reiling
In two cases consolidated for decision, the Court articulates the tests to be used when deciding whether an item is income or a gift and therefore, not income. Both cases are colorful. The first involves the unsolicited receipt of a Cadillac. The second involves... View Details
Reiling, Henry B. "Commissioner v. Duberstein." Harvard Business School Case 284-074, June 1984. (Revised July 2005.)
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
work. "The models of law enforcement and international public policy are not strategic by nature," she explains. "There are no other Harvard MBAs working there. Just having that perspective... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Agent of change
Working in law enforcement made Skovran notice inefficiencies in the way the government approached societal problems. "I became interested in finding more effective ways to reduce crime and violence," she... View Details
- 2010
- Comment
Does Arrest Deter Violence? Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Evidence on Mandatory Arrest Laws, by Radha Iyengar
By: Rafael Di Tella
Di Tella, Rafael. Comment on "Does Arrest Deter Violence? Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Evidence on Mandatory Arrest Laws, by Radha Iyengar." Chap. 12 The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, 453–456. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 22 Apr 2019
- News
Keeping an Eye on Things
combating terrorism. “We are responsible for maintaining a gallery of biometric information and then performing the matching and the analysis, sometimes within milliseconds. And we do know that much of the work that we do verifying does help View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
- December 1993 (Revised April 1995)
- Exercise
Corporate Criminal Fines Exercise
By: Lynn S. Paine
Paine, Lynn S. "Corporate Criminal Fines Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 394-101, December 1993. (Revised April 1995.)
- November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
Community-First Public Safety
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short... View Details
Keywords: Race; Law Enforcement; Governance; Decision Making; Safety; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "Community-First Public Safety." Harvard Business School Case 821-005, November 2020. (Revised June 2022.)