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- 24 Aug 2016
- News
Entrepreneurs versus regulators
- Research Summary
Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation
Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details
- October 2004 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
In Search of Global Regulation
By: Geoffrey Jones, Mona Rahmani and Alexis Gendron
The history of the international regulation of global capitalism is surveyed, addressing the challenges facing firms confronting international, national, and regional regulation. Follows the history of global regulation after 1914, from the League of Nations'...
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Keywords:
History;
Multinational Firms and Management;
International Relations;
Laws and Statutes;
Corporate Governance;
Business and Government Relations
Jones, Geoffrey, Mona Rahmani, and Alexis Gendron. "In Search of Global Regulation." Harvard Business School Case 805-025, October 2004. (Revised October 2013.)
Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization
This text offers a unique real-world perspective on laws related to business organization. Logical and flexible chapters can be taught in any order to accommodate alternative teaching approaches. Chapters One through Four cover the fundamentals of organizational law in...
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- 13 Oct 2014
- News
How Uber and the Sharing Economy Can Win Over Regulators
Keywords:
sharing economy;
Uber;
Air BNB;
government legislation;
public policy;
regulation;
Hospitality
- Article
Ten Year Sunset Rule for Healthcare Regulation Is a Nonstarter and Discouragement to Post-COVID-19 Investment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Eugene Schneller
U.S. healthcare delivery has not benefitted from the same productivity growth as many other service industries, such as bricks and mortar retailing, a loss that has gravely diminished cost control and access. Regulatory capture, which creates barriers to venture...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
COVID-19;
Regulation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Investment
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Eugene Schneller. "Ten Year Sunset Rule for Healthcare Regulation Is a Nonstarter and Discouragement to Post-COVID-19 Investment." Journal of Health Care Finance 47, no. 4 (Spring 2021). (Special Commentary.)
- July 1995
- Background Note
Managerial Duties and Business Law
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
Consists of excerpts from Principles of Corporate Governance, a set of legal guidelines that enumerates the principal duties of corporate managers and directors, including fiduciary duty, duty of care, and duty of fair dealing. Also addresses legal obligations relating...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Corporate Governance;
Retention;
Common Law;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Managerial Roles
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr., and Jerry Useem. "Managerial Duties and Business Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 395-244, July 1995.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China
By: Ke Rong, D. Daniel Sokol, Di Zhou and Feng Zhu
Many jurisdictions have launched antitrust enforcement and brought in regulation of large tech platforms. The swift and strict implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Platform Economy (Platform Guidelines) provides a quasi-natural experiment...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competition;
Venture Capital;
Market Entry and Exit;
Supply and Industry;
China
Rong, Ke, D. Daniel Sokol, Di Zhou, and Feng Zhu. "Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-039, January 2024.
- Web
New Regulations
Government regulations have become more complex and challenging for organizations. However, fair and effective regulations can often generate...
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- 26 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior
- 1994
- Book
Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America
This book explains how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. The four stories illustrate the dynamic process of...
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Vietor, Richard H. K. Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.
- October 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Background Note
Memo From Counsel: Antitrust Law and Customer Allocation
By: Lynn S. Paine and Lara Adamsons
When do antitrust laws come into play in a bidding situation? What should a company do if an antitrust violation is uncovered? This memo discusses "hard-core" antitrust violations, focusing on bid rigging and market allocation, under the laws of the U.S. and other...
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Paine, Lynn S., and Lara Adamsons. "Memo From Counsel: Antitrust Law and Customer Allocation." Harvard Business School Background Note 310-048, October 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- 2015
- Article
Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits
By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers
We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement for mispricing in price-regulated markets. Consequently, beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit...
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- Winter 2019
- Article
From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces
By: Benjamin Edelman and Abbey Stemler
Online marketplaces have transformed how we shop, travel, and interact with the world. Yet, their unique innovations also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that...
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Keywords:
Marketplaces;
Peer To Peer;
Sharing Economy;
Decentralized;
Regulation;
Preemption;
Markets;
Internet;
Government Legislation;
Laws and Statutes;
United States
Edelman, Benjamin, and Abbey Stemler. "From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces." Harvard Journal on Legislation 56, no. 1 (Winter 2019): 141–197.
- March 18, 2009
- Article
Regulate, Baby, Regulate
The U.S. today faces its biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Management Teams;
Infrastructure;
Insurance;
Negotiation Deal;
Government and Politics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Credit;
Banks and Banking;
Debt Securities;
United States
McCraw, T. K. "Regulate, Baby, Regulate." New Republic 240, no. 4 (March 18, 2009).
- 11 Apr 2024
- HBS Conference
Digital Competition and Tech Regulation
- August 1985
- Case
Bob Malott and Product Liability Law Reform
Robert Malott, Chairman and CEO of FMC, must decide whether or not to continue his work on product liability law reform, an issue on which he has worked for almost 10 years. Malott must decide how extensive his own involvement should be and what arguments he can or...
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Keywords:
Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Personal Development and Career;
Legal Liability
Weinberg, Martha W. "Bob Malott and Product Liability Law Reform." Harvard Business School Case 386-014, August 1985.
- 23 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School
- 03 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits
- February 1987 (Revised August 1989)
- Background Note
United States Trade Law
By: David B. Yoffie
Examines the manner in which U.S. trade law and policy has evolved, with emphasis on trade in manufactured goods and services as well as the relationship between the executive and the legislature. The structure and content of U.S. trade law is discussed including a...
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Keywords:
Trade;
Machinery and Machining;
Policy;
Law Enforcement;
Outcome or Result;
Business and Government Relations;
United States
Yoffie, David B. "United States Trade Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 387-137, February 1987. (Revised August 1989.)