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      Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
      "Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as...
      Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century?
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      • January 15, 2021
      • Article

      Social Media Companies Should Self-Regulate. Now

      By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
      We argue that social media firms should ramp up self-regulation of content in 2021. This argument is based on research on numerous industries where firms and/or industry associations devised self-regulatory strategies that successfully limited or forestalled more...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Media; Self-regulation; Internet; Governing Rules, regulations, And Reforms; Business And Government Relations
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      Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. "Social Media Companies Should Self-Regulate. Now." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 15, 2021).
      • March 2020
      • Article

      Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments

      By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
      Concerns about high rates of government corruption in resource-rich countries have led transparency advocates to urge oil and gas firms to disclose payments to host governments for natural resources. Transparency, they argue, can increase government accountability and...  View Details
      Keywords: Oil & Gas; Corruption; Transparency; Self-regulation; Industry Self-regulation; regulation; Disclosure; Disclosure Regulation; Energy Sources; Crime And Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, regulations, And Reforms; Energy industry
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      Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim. "Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments." Accounting Horizons 34, no. 1 (March 2020): 111–129.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry

      By: Young Hou and Dennis Yao
      This paper exploits a natural experiment involving self-regulation in the ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereal industry to evaluate how firms respond to entry in light of changes in competition and to estimate the value of brand equity as products are repositioned....  View Details
      Keywords: Positioning; Resources; Competitive Dynamics; Non-market Strategy; Goods And Commodities; Governing Rules, regulations, And Reforms; Product Positioning; Food And Beverage industry
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      Hou, Young, and Dennis Yao. "Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-014, August 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
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      Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data

      By: Sakis Kotsantonis and George Serafeim
      As the ESG finance field and the use of ESG data in investment decision-making continue to grow, the authors seek to shed light on several important aspects of ESG measurement and data. This article is intended to provide a useful guide for the rapidly rising number of...  View Details
      Keywords: Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Reporting; Data Analytics; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Csr; Transparency; Investment Management; Socially Responsible Investing; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Development; Climate Change; Inclusion; Inclusive Growth; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Corporate Accountability; Investment; Management; Climate Change; Corporate Governance; Diversity; Integrated Corporate Reporting
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      Kotsantonis, Sakis, and George Serafeim. "Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 31, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 50–58.
      • July–August 2018
      • Article

      When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

      By: Tarun Khanna
      New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and...  View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Society; Situation Or Environment; Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Performance Effectiveness; Cooperation
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      Khanna, Tarun. "When Technology Gets Ahead of Society." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 86–95.
      • March 2015 (Revised March 2016)
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      Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century?

      By: Rebecca Henderson, Amram Migdal and Tony He
      Industry self-regulation has, in general, a lousy track record. Many studies have shown that it is often ineffective unless backed by the power of the state, and that in some cases it serves rather to forestall government intervention or to reduce competition than as...  View Details
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      Henderson, Rebecca, Amram Migdal, and Tony He. "Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century?" Harvard Business School Background Note 315-074, March 2015. (Revised March 2016.)
      • March 2015
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      Tough Choices at the Gomez Lobster Cooperative

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Amram Migdal
      This case is designed to be used with HBS Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century, HBS No. 315-074.  View Details
      Keywords: Governance Compliance
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Amram Migdal. "Tough Choices at the Gomez Lobster Cooperative." Harvard Business School Case 315-105, March 2015.
      • March 2015
      • Case

      Sustainable Palm Oil and Self-Regulation

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Amram Migdal
      This case is designed to be used with HBS Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century, HBS No. 315-074.  View Details
      Keywords: Governance Compliance
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Amram Migdal. "Sustainable Palm Oil and Self-Regulation." Harvard Business School Case 315-100, March 2015.
      • March 2014
      • Teaching Note

      Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children

      By: Dennis Yao
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      Yao, Dennis. "Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 714-501, March 2014.
      • Winter 2013
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      Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency

      By: Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
      The sub-prime crisis has shone a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has...  View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance
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      Farhi, Emmanuel, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole. "Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency." RAND Journal of Economics 44, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 610–631.
      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Can Implicit Regulation Change Financial Market Behavior? Evidence from Spitzer's Attack on Market Timers

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang
      This paper explores a natural experiment setup from the 2003-2004 mutual fund scandals to evaluate the effectiveness of implicit regulation on financial markets behavior. On average, buy-and-hold investors lost 218 basis points annually from 1998 to 2002 to market...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Markets; Market Timing; United States
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      Wang, Charles C.Y. "Can Implicit Regulation Change Financial Market Behavior? Evidence from Spitzer's Attack on Market Timers." Working Paper, 2012.
      • 2012
      • White Paper

      Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation

      By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
      Spurred by the anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective compliance....  View Details
      Keywords: Governance Compliance; Business And Government Relations
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      Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation." Georgetown University Economic Policy Vignette, September 2012.
      • February 2012 (Revised March 2014)
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      Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis Yao, Britta Kelley and Lizzie Gomez
      In response to growing concern about childhood obesity, in February 2006 the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) announced an initiative to examine its self-regulatory program on children's advertising. The existing program was a voluntary cross-industry program...  View Details
      Keywords: Food; Advertising; Ethics; Food And Beverage industry
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Dennis Yao, Britta Kelley, and Lizzie Gomez. "Sweet Deal—Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children." Harvard Business School Case 712-463, February 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
      • September 2010
      • Article

      Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment

      By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
      Using data from a sample of U.S. industrial facilities subject to the federal Clean Air Act from 1993 to 2003, this article theorizes and tests the conditions under which organizations' symbolic commitments to self-regulate are particularly likely to result in improved...  View Details
      Keywords: Adoption; Code Law; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, regulations, And Reforms; Organizations; Governance Compliance; Strategy; Motivation And Incentives; United States
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      Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment." Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 3 (September 2010): 361–396. (Lead article; Featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2011) and in Behind the scenes of the Administrative Science Quarterly.)
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

      By: David Moss and Mary Oey
      What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms...  View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power And Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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      Moss, David, and Mary Oey. "The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics." In Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
      • May 2008
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      Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator

      By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
      As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory...  View Details
      Keywords: Governance Compliance; Law Enforcement; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, regulations, And Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Programs; Power And Influence; Organizations; Decisions; Business And Government Relations; United States
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      Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 24, no. 1 (May 2008): 45–71.
      • 29 Feb 2008
      • Conference Presentation

      Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Information
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      Toffel, Michael W. "Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure." Paper presented at the Institutional Foundations for Industry Self-Regulation Conference, February 29, 2008.
      • 2008
      • Other Unpublished Work

      The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

      By: David Moss and Mary Oey

      The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms of political support. Indeed, many...  View Details

      Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power And Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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      Moss, David, and Mary Oey. "The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics." 2008.
      • 16 Feb 2007
      • Conference Presentation

      Coming Clean...and Cleaning Up? Examining the Effects of Self-Policing

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Keywords: Outcome Or Result; Governance Compliance
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      Toffel, Michael W. "Coming Clean...and Cleaning Up? Examining the Effects of Self-Policing." Paper presented at the Conference on Institutional Foundations for Industry Self-Regulation, February 16, 2007.
      • 24 Feb 2006
      • Conference Presentation

      Turning Themselves In: Why Some Firms Self-disclose Regulatory Violations

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Keywords: Governance Compliance; Corporate Governance
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      Toffel, Michael W. "Turning Themselves In: Why Some Firms Self-disclose Regulatory Violations." Paper presented at the Conference on Institutional Mechanisms for Industry Self-Regulation, February 24, 2006.
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      Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
      "Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as...
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