Filter Results
:
(114)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (164)
- Faculty Publications (36)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (164)
- Faculty Publications (36)
Sort by
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
geographical area are asking lots of questions about the policy on taking gifts from certain ministers, then this would help compliance leaders appreciate that maybe it’s time to go back and make sure people...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408003 Offshoring Day in BGIE and Strategy Harvard Business School Note 708-492 Describes a set of activities in which students will participate before and during a day of classes on offshoring. The day's...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to monitor their own...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- January 2007 (Revised January 2007)
- Background Note
Note on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
By: Robert F. Higgins, Richard G. Hamermesh and Virginia Fuller
Describes the U.S. FDA with particular emphasis on its role in the development of new drugs, biologic products, and medical devices today. Provides context for the drug approval process by describing the FDA's history and organizational structure.
View Details
Keywords:
Health;
Governance Compliance;
Policy;
Product Development;
Government and Politics;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Higgins, Robert F., Richard G. Hamermesh, and Virginia Fuller. "Note on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-050, January 2007. (Revised January 2007.)
- September 2006
- Tutorial
Internal Control Process - Online Tutorial
By: David F. Hawkins
Introduces the Internal Control Process by detailing its five components: 1) the internal control environment, 2) risk assessment, 3) internal control activities, 4) information and communications, and 5) monitoring. Includes multiple review exercises throughout the...
View Details
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions—expensing of investments, for example—were introduced to advance policy goals such as stimulating...
View Details
Keywords:
by Mihir Desai
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
sources of political risk: macroeconomic and policy turbulence, excessive bureaucracy, political instability, corruption, and violence. Employing NVivo coding, marked regional differences were identified. Macroeconomic and View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- November 2001
- Case
Aventis CropScience and StarLink Corn
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Aventis CropScience responds to the discovery of an unapproved corn variety in food supplies and draws lessons for the company, industry, and governments.
View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax...
View Details
Keywords:
by Ann Cullen
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
and further development of the original cluster framework. The fourth part then explores the policy implications to be drawn from Porter's work on clusters. Porter develops recommendations on how to leverage clusters as a tool in economic...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
that emphasizing an activity’s health risks might encourage compliance better than imposing blanket restrictions. “If the opening up messaging was, ‘Yes, we will allow you to do this because we respect individual freedom, but you’re...
View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
providers are beginning to offer unique services, creating the facilities and organizations to effectively deliver them, and gathering the data to show superior performance and to continue to improve. Public policy can help accelerate...
View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
With Donald Trump’s election, Washington’s policy debate on financial services shifted overnight. Recent signs such as the president-elect’s own words and those of GOP leaders point to renewed efforts to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act....
View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor...
View Details
Keywords:
by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Working PapersTesting Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2359803 August...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
simply a bilateral matter. First, a need to secure construction permits in multiple jurisdictions around the Baltic Sea involved other countries. And second, Germany's membership in the European Union entailed compliance with goals and...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility gains from...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
of America’s shareholders from voicing their concerns. When a shareholder has a beef with a company’s business practices, they can submit a formal proposal to suggest a policy change. The company can respond to the proposal in one of...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel