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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
affected company shut the necessary doors, saving it an estimated $20 million. Flashpoint has public sector clients too, including global governments as well as US military and law enforcement agencies. In fall 2014, it launched a...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
stringent inspections and enforcement of safety standards in Bangladesh's garment factories. The proposal was met by opposition from several U.S. firms, which claimed the proposal carried too a high a risk of litigation for them to sign....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
liability has developed into one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic areas of legal practice. The growth of corporate criminal enforcement has correlated with a broad shift in how the government investigates and resolves corporate...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
by leading multifaceted lives themselves. They can reward employees for the quality and results of their work rather than the time put into it. And they can enforce reasonable work hours, require vacations, and take other steps to protect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
817-016 Mark43 The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals (RFP) from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). On the one hand,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
only shown on web sites where they are appropriate, and vice versa. Setting standards is particularly challenging given the large and growing marketplace, the numerous participants, their diverse requirements, and the dynamics of policy View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Others have raised concerns about investing too much power in the hands of the Fed. Pozen advised the Senate committee to tap the Federal Reserve as the super regulator but to delegate enforcement to the appropriate existing federal...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117113-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-114 Management Control Systems Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
metrics, relying on independent auditors, and attempting to enforce compliance. Is this a plausible path forward? This note summarizes work in history, political science, and economics—drawing particularly on the work of Eleanor Ostrom—to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions. For clear violations of applicable rules, we find that outside specialists are most effective at excluding the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
number of distinct predictions about the cost of capital for alternatives relative to traditional mean-variance analysis. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-013.pdf Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
believed that these holdout creditors created "collective action problems" and presented a major obstacle to successful sovereign debt restructurings. On the other hand, other observers argued that activist investors actually improved the market overall by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
piece of technology that allows pharmacists and doctors and law enforcement to monitor how many prescriptions are being made out there, who's getting all these prescriptions, where are they going, what's happening with all the opioids out...
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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the individual. And we thought that that felt like the right way to do it.Kerr: And then the second one is the non-competes. In California, you cannot enforce a non-compete clause. That’s obviously a big market for you labor-wise. But...
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- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
believe that enforcing educational standards and a code of ethics is unlikely to choke entrepreneurial creativity. Indeed, if the field of medicine is any indication, a code may even stimulate creativity. The main challenge in writing a...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
multi-tasking problems. Contracts often specify provisions that are unobservable or difficult to verify, suggesting a role for expected litigation as an enforcement tool in contract design. Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic...
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Sean Silverthorne