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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century

By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Dodd-Frank; CFPB; Financial Crisis; Reform; New Agency; Market-based Approach; Evidence-based Analysis; Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies; BEST Practices; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Finance; Financial History; Law; Markets; Organizations; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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  • March 2002
  • Case

2002 Global Coffee Summit: Searching for Solutions

By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Global coffee leaders gathered in 2002 to develop alternative market-based approaches that would ensure a sustainable supply of coffee and address the social and ecological issues confronted by a global depression in coffee prices. View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Price; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull
With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem.... View Details
Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
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  • July–August 2023
  • Article

Accounting for Carbon Offsets

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Marc Roston
Markets for carbon trading function poorly, and many traded offsets do not actually perform as promised. Without robust protocols for monitoring offsets and in the absence of proper accounting mechanisms, market-based approaches to reducing atmospheric GHG will be... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Regulation
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  • December 8, 2022
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The New China Shock: How Beijing’s Party-State Capitalism Is Changing the Global Economy

By: Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai
In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, China began to move away from the market-based approach that had shaped its economic policies for three decades, and toward something that might be termed “party-state capitalism,” which involves a high degree of... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Systems; Trade; China
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  • June 2022
  • Case

Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU

By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Carbon Emissions; Trade; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Climate Change; Analysis; Strategy; Taxation; Policy; Environmental Regulation; Industry Structures; European Union
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  • 20 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

after identifying a structural weakness. “Apple has shown the way in how to build a market of external innovators.” According to Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani, Boeing's approach is an excellent example of how not to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

years for politicians to act on their constituencies' widespread indignation. Don't count on regulation to solve anything in time or on budget. This is what makes a market-based way to deliver consumer privacy attractive. Markets have an... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

plan? How much time would this buy us? A: A market-based approach offers a real benefit to those who still need more IPv4 addresses after ordinary supplies run out. Rather than being told that no more IPv4... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

Casebook in Business Ethics, Fourth Edition Authors:Kenneth E. Goodpaster, Laura L. Nash, and Henri-Claude de Bettignies Publisher:McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2006 Publisher's Abstract This comprehensive collection presents a case-method approach... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

health care. But the truth is that many of these efforts, despite best intentions, have not solved the issues they target, says Harvard Business School professor Jane Wei-Skillern. "Traditional approaches are still falling short,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

markets have become more pervasive, firms have used them badly. Two, we have seen leaders substitute market-based incentives for judgment and for standards where they shouldn't. Three, we have seen governance institutions compromising... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

createdwealth in their lifetime. "They look at how they created value in thefor-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach withphilanthropy," Emerson says. Joining this group are baby boomers, who will be recipients... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
  • 08 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

as several states in the West were planning a new joint program. “Those who make poor choices feel the consequences of price uncertainty most deeply.” So clearly it's important for business managers in many industries to understand how cap and trade—a complex, View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

Market-Based Solutions to Antitrust Threats-The Rejection of the Partners Settlement By: Herzlinger, Regina E., Barak D. Richman, and Kevin A. Schulman Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

contractual detail affects the type of dispute resolution approach that is adopted when conflict arises, and that different approaches are associated with different costs for resolving the dispute. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

(RRP). By expanding the overall supply of safe short-term claims, the Fed can weaken the market-based incentives for private sector intermediaries to issue too many of their own short-term liabilities. And crucially, we argue that the Fed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

journals, professional societies, and doctoral programs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50489 Harvard Business School Case 616-040 Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain This case study examines a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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