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- 01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
records for our constituents. We also take a leadership role in responsible dog ownership, including legislative issues involving dogs. The AKC provides assistance for a number of affiliated organizations. We give a million dollars a year...
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Susan Young
- 11 May 2015
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What It Will Take to Fix America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
- 01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), in effect since...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told
regulators have the necessary tools to encourage people to come forward with information? Heese: Our research focuses on specific legislation known as the False Claims Act, which was the first cash-for-information whistleblower law in the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action more urgent than ever. This is...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
addition, a scandalous love affair had ruined Hamilton's chances to be President (which, despite being foreign-born, he was eligible to become by law at the time). Hamilton remained in office until early 1795, implementing the legislation...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
committee, established by then SEC chair Arthur Levitt, to formulate best practices with regard to stockbrokers' activities and compensation. These were not legislative remedies, they were recommendations for voluntary standards of...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement
that the Board Challenge is an opportunity. Increased regulation—ranging from legislation in 11 states to new rules debuted by NASDAQ for its listed companies—now requires many companies to add more varied representation to their boards....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
follows that our potential to develop a particular disease will matter less and less to insurers. The general consensus, however, is that new legislation will be required in the meantime for this and a host of other issues, much of it...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
country. Lasting change, Nielsen argues, will not come mainly through local school boards but rather through state legislative action that empowers school administrators to make choices in their students’ interests. Full Circle: A Witness...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
change, numerous devils emerged in the legislative details before passage was ultimately achieved in 2006. Looking back, Pozen observes, “It’s important to consider a few things we did well — and one we did not — in determining whether...
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- 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had made a relatively small...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
December 2001 had severely eroded investor confidence and prompted Congress to legislate sweeping corporate reforms contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Donaldson’s predecessor, Harvey L. Pitt, had been forced to resign under pressure....
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
and institutions," noted Merton in his opening remarks. He then discussed the modern contracting technologies underlying popular new financial products that are being used in myriad ways to serve households and corporations. Merton explained that deregulation and other...
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Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
urged state lawmakers to support legislation favorable to charter schools and to repeal laws that impede them. "Four million dollars and some lobbying efforts," he said, "resulted in one thousand schools and three billion dollars invested...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
twenty years of experience at J.P. Morgan & Company, where he headed global investment banking and global equities. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation and product innovation on Wall Street, Rose said. “By the end of the 1990s,...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA
Crawford. “I’m proud that 50,000 of the President’s supporters voted for me,” Edwards says. Moreover, he’s the only Democrat to survive a 2003 redrawing of Texas congressional districts by state GOP legislators and orchestrated by former...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Q & A: Herb Kohl
campaign finance reform? I'm very supportive of it. Money is way too important here in Washington. People who contribute the most influence legislation the most. And that's obviously contrary to our democracy. How has your own financial...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Ullman explains. Now E2 is working to pass similar legislation in New York State. “It’s so unusual from the perspective of politicians to have businesspeople take time from their busy lives to advocate for something that does not affect...
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