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  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees, customers, or shareholders and placed the global financial system at risk. I... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private organizations and scores of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

at Genoa involves communicating with state agencies about remaining regulatory obstacles to telehealth care. He also is a national advocate through Mental Health America, which is using its free online... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

you by stores, researchers, and credit agencies belongs to those companies, not to you. They in turn resell that information to others. So if our personal information is such an asset, shouldn't we benefit from our asset as well? Why... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

division. But now, the Development Banking team is contemplating going to the board to take the concept one step further: pro-actively investing in PSL-qualifying activities not as a matter of regulatory compliance but as business. Should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

Entrepreneurship: Insights for an Approach to Strategic Management That Combines Agency and Institution Authors:Julie Battilana and B. Leca Publication:In Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight, edited by L.A. Costanzo and R.B.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

undercapitalized, incompetent insurance entrants will be reduced by competition and regulation by state regulatory bodies. Q: In your new article in Harvard Business Review, you write, "The current health insurance system in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Hiatt and Sangchan Park Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory agencies' decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

clients. We stated that even honest auditors were incapable of independence within the current regulatory framework. We document the failure to make sufficient changes to our institutions, highlight the barriers to needed changes, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

France, the group was highly decentralized, with semi-independent agencies in more than 100 countries offering a variety of services. The largest unit of Havas was Havas Worldwide, an integrated marketing communications View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Agency to institute such a program. The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609046 Note: Credit Rating Agencies Harvard Business School Note 209-056 The note examines the role of credit rating agencies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected by the agency distortions commonly found in full-fledged state-owned firms. Using panel data from publicly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Working Papers Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency Authors: Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

WATER Ltd.

for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

regulatory policy-making is shared in the EU, but is primarily the responsibility of local governments in the U.S. Thus, in some important areas, regulatory policy-making is more centralised in the EU. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

government programs. [Editor's note: In a nutshell, regulatory capture refers to the tendency of regulators to favor, in effect, the interest of the industry they are supposed to be regulating rather than the public interest.] Any program... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

50 employees) but was poised for significant growth. For founder and CEO Michael Lebowitz, the central challenge was to figure out whether and how the agency could retain its boutique culture while transcending its boutique size. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace