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Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups

Every startup wants to change the world. But the ones who truly make an impact know something the others don't: how to make government and regulation work for them.As startups use technology to shape the way we live, work, and learn, they're taking on challenges in sectors like healthcare, infrastructure, and education, where failure is far more consequential than a humorous chat with Siri or the wrong package on your doorstep. These startups inevitably have to face governments responsible for protecting citizens through regulation. Love it or hate it, we're entering the next era of the digital revolution: the Regulatory Era.The big winners in this era--in terms of both impact and financial return--will need skills they won't teach you in business school or most startup incubators: how to scale a business in an industry deeply intertwined with government.Here, for the first time, is the playbook on how to win the regulatory era. "Regulatory hacking" doesn't mean "cutting through red tape"; it's really about finding a creative, strategic approach to navigating complex markets.Evan Burfield is the cofounder of 1776, a Washington, DC-based venture capital firm and incubator specializing in regulated industries. Burfield has coached startups on how to understand, adapt to, and influence government regulation. Now, in Regulatory Hacking, he draws on that expertise and real startup success stories to show you how to do the same. For instance, you'll learn how... * AirBnB rallied a grassroots movement to vote No on San Francisco's Prop F, which would have restricted its business in the city. * HopSkipDrive overcame safety concerns about its kids' ridesharing service by working with state government to build trust into its platform. * 23andMe survived the FDA's order to stop selling its genetic testing kits by building trusted relationships with scientists who could influence the federal regulatory community.Through fascinating case studies and interviews with startup founders, Burfield shows you how to build a compelling narrative for your startup, use it to build a grassroots movement to impact regulation, and develop influence to overcome entrenched relationships between incumbents and governments. These are just some of the tools in the book that you'll need to win the next frontier of innovation.

Regulatory Issues in Organic Food Safety in the Asia Pacific

The book seeks to address the intersection of food organics and the emergence of a new contractualism between producers, distributors and consumers, and between nation states. Additionally, it seeks to cater to the needs of a discerning public concerned about how its own country aims to meet their demands for organic food quality and safety, as well as how they will benefit from integration in the standard-setting processes increasingly occurring regionally and internationally. This edited volume brings together expert scholars and practitioners and draws on their respective insights and experiences in the field of organics, food and health safety. The book is organized in three parts. Part I outlines certain international perspectives; Part II reflects upon relevant histories and influences and finally, Part III examines the organic food regulatory regime of various jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific.

Regulatory Politics in an Age of Polarization and Drift: Beyond Deregulation

Regulatory change is typically understood as a response to significant crises like the Great Depression, or salient events that focus public attention, like Earth Day 1970. Without discounting the importance of these kinds of events, change often assumes more gradual and less visible forms. But how do we ‘see’ change, and what institutions and processes are behind it? In this book, author Marc Eisner brings these questions to bear on the analysis of regulatory change, walking the reader through a clear-eyed and careful examination of: the dynamics of regulatory change since the 1970s social regulation and institutional design forms of gradual change – including conversion, layering, and drift gridlock, polarization, and the privatization of regulation financial collapse and the anatomy of regulatory failure Demonstrating that transparency and accountability – the hallmarks of public regulation – are increasingly absent, and that deregulation was but one factor in our most recent significant financial collapse, the Great Recession, this book urges readers to look beyond deregulation and consider the broader political implications for our current system of voluntary participation in regulatory programs and the proliferation of public-private partnerships. This book provides an accessible introduction to the complex topic of regulatory politics, ideal for upper-level and graduate courses on regulation, government and business, bureaucratic politics, and public policy.

Regulatory Realities: The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation

Arguing that the performance of industrial environmental regulation is determined by the level and nature of the innovation it stimulates, this text aims to analyze the influence of different structures and styles of implementation on innovation in regulated companies. Further aims include: examining the economic and environmental performance of different forms of innovation developed and applied by industry in response to regulation; describing the conditions under which industrial environmental regulation can be improved; outlining the implementation approaches required for regulated companies to overcome barriers which prevent them from exploiting the economic and environmental potential of particular forms of innovation; demonstrating how technological and organizational change could lead to lower costs and higher benefits from regulatory compliance; and putting forward to governments and industry proposals to improve the relationship between environmental protection and industrial competitiveness.

Regulatory Support for Off-Grid Renewable Electricity (Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies)

This book investigates the role of law in enabling and addressing the barriers to the development of off-grid renewable electricity (OGRE). The limited development of OGRE is ascribed to a host of social, economic, and legal barriers, including the problem of initial capital costs, existing subsidies for conventional electricity, and lack of technological and institutional capacity. Through the analyses of selected case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, this book discusses the typical barriers to the development of OGRE from a global perspective and examines the role of the law in addressing them. Drawing together the lessons learnt from the case studies, this book offers robust recommendations on how the development of OGRE will support the goal of achieving universal access to low carbon, reliable, and sustainable electricity globally. This volume will be of great interest to students, scholars, policy makers, investors, and practitioners in the fields of energy law and policy, climate change, and renewable energy development.

Regulatory Theory and its Application to Trade Policy: A Study of ITC Decision-Making, 1975-1985 (Routledge Library Editions: International Trade Policy #23)

The purpose of this book, first published in 1990, is to explain the varying levels of protection from foreign competition across US industries by focusing on factors that affect both the supply of and demand for the regulation of trade. What circumstances lead industries to request protection, and what factors affect the government’s decision of whether or not to supply that protection? What factors best explain the actions of interest groups and the decisions of regulators? This detailed study answers these key questions and more.

Regulatory Waves

All governments, in various ways, regulate and control nonprofit organizations. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), while hopeful of supportive regulatory environments, are simultaneously seeking greater autonomy both to provide services and to advocate for policy change. In part to counter increasing statutory regulation, there is a global nonprofit sector movement towards greater grassroots regulation - what the authors call self-regulation - through codes of conduct and self-accreditation processes. This book drills down to the country level to study both sides of this equation, examining how state regulation and nonprofit self-regulation affect each other and investigating the causal nature of this interaction. Exploring these issues from historical, cultural, political, and environmental perspectives, and in sixteen jurisdictions (Australia, China, Brazil, Ecuador, England and Wales, Ethiopia, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Tanzania, Uganda, Scotland, United States, and Vietnam), the authors analyse the interplay between state control and nonprofit self-regulation to better understand broader emerging trends.

Regulatory and Social Processes

Many companies today recognize that achieving excellence in environmental, safety, health, employment, and community practices are part of long-term, value-creating strategies. Companies that excel in critical regulatory and social processes can enhance their reputation among customers and investors, and also help to attract and retain valuable employees who take pride in their companies. This chapter provides examples of how companies manage and report their regulatory and social performance along several dimensions, including environmental performance and employee practices.

Regulierung digitaler Geschäftsmodelle (Bibliothek des Wirtschaftsrechts #3)

Dieses Open Access Buch adressiert den Regulierungsbedarf im rasant wachsenden Bereich der digitalen Geschäftsmodelle. Der Trend zur Digitalisierung bringt rasche Veränderungen in Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft mit sich. Digitale Geschäftsmodelle bergen neben außerordentlichen Chancen auch nicht vernachlässigbare Risiken. In diesem Spannungsfeld zwischen wirtschaftlichem Nutzen und gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung besteht ein zunehmendes Bedürfnis nach gesetzgeberischer Regulierung der Digitalwirtschaft, die gleichwohl Innovation und Fortschritt im digitalen Sektor nicht unterbinden sollte. In diesem Open Access Band widmen sich ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten dem angerissenen Themenkreis aus den verschiedensten Blickwinkeln. Ausgangspunkt für das Buch bildete der vom Internationalen Forum für Wirtschaftsrecht getragene 3. Bozner Wirtschaftsrechtstag, bei dem besonderes Augenmerk auf die Berührung des deutschsprachigen Rechts- und Wirtschaftsraumes mit dem italienischen gelegt wird.

Regulierung von Künstlicher Intelligenz in der EU: Praxisbezogene Lösungsansätze für die Sicherheit von KI-Anwendungen (Vertrauenswürdige KI)

Dieses Buch bietet eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die Regulierung von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der EU. Es vereint theoretisches Wissen mit konkreten Handlungsempfehlungen zur Umsetzung von KI-Standards und Gesetzen, insbesondere im Rahmen des EU AI Acts. Durch eine speziell entwickelte Systematik werden KI-relevante Gesetze und Standards systematisch erfasst und bewertet. Führungskräfte, CISOs und Cybersecurity-Experten erhalten wertvolle Einblicke, wie sie die Vertrauenswürdigkeit von KI-Systemen in ihren Organisationen gewährleisten können. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Integration von KI in bestehende Sicherheitsstrukturen sowie der Nutzung bewährter Frameworks.

Regímenes cambiarios y la estabilidad del sistema monetario internacional

A report from the International Monetary Fund.

Rehumanize Your Business: How Personal Videos Accelerate Sales and Improve Customer Experience

Accelerate sales and improve customer experience Every day, most working professionals entrust their most important messages to a form of communication that doesn't build trust, provide differentiation, or communicate clearly enough. It's easy to point to the sheer volume of emails, text messages, voicemails, and even social messaging as the problem that reduces our reply rates and diminishes our effectiveness. But the faceless nature of that communication is also to blame. Rehumanize Your Business explains how to dramatically improve relationships and results with your customers, prospects, employees, and recruits by adding personal videos to emails, text messages, and social messages. It explains the what, why, and how behind this new movement toward simple, authentic videos—and when to replace some of your plain, typed-out communication with webcam and smartphone recordings. • Restore face-to-face communication for clarity and connection • Add a personal, human touch to your emails and other messages • Meet people who’ve sent thousands of videos • Learn to implement your own video habit in an easy, time-saving way • Boost your replies, appointments, conversion, referrals, and results dramatically If you’re ready to influence, teach, sell, or serve in a more personal way, Rehumanize Your Business is your guide.

Reich werden für Dummies (Für Dummies)

Mit dem richtigen Mindset und dem nötigen Wissen können auch Sie reich werden. Beides vermittelt Ihnen dieses Buch. Es unterstützt Sie dabei, Macher-Qualitäten zu entwickeln, Chancen zu bewerten, kalkulierbare Risiken einzugehen und dann Ihr Geld für sich arbeiten zu lassen. Und es macht Sie schlau zu gewinnträchtigen Investment-Möglichkeiten: Immobilien, Aktien, Sachwerte, Kryptowährungen und Co. Erfahren Sie, wie Sie mit »Betongold« Geld machen können und wie Sie mithilfe der Technischen Analyse und der Fundamentalanalyse renditestarke Aktien kaufen. Entwickeln Sie Ihre persönliche Reichmach-Strategie!

Reifegradmanagement im Einkauf: Mit dem 15M-Reifegradmodell zur Exzellenz im Supply Management (essentials)

Mit dem 15M-Reifegradmanagement wird in diesem Essential ein praxiserprobtes Konzept zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung des strategischen Einkaufs vorgestellt. Alle relevanten Aufgabenfelder des Einkaufs werden im Modell strukturiert sowie auf ihre Reife hin analysiert und bewertet. Zu diesem Zweck wird ein mehrdimensionales Konzept zur Beurteilung der Reife im Einkauf und zur Ermittlung eines Reifegradscores entwickelt. Gerhard Heß zeigt, wie das Reifegradmanagement in das Einkaufsmanagement zu integrieren ist. Grundlegend ist dabei die Idee, dass ein exzellentes Einkaufsmanagement - ausgedrückt durch einen hohen Reifegradscore - die Basis für eine zukünftige hervorragende Einkaufsstrategie und deren Umsetzung ist.

Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor Movement (Routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy Ser. #Vol. 94)

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement‘s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages and programs for social justice. Since the earlies

Reimagine Inclusion: Debunking 13 Myths To Transform Your Workplace

Reimagining what inclusion can look like in our organizations starts with understanding why these 13 DEI myths are not true—with practical and effective strategies for implementing transformative inclusivity. In Reimagine Inclusion, veteran DEI leader Mita Mallick debunks 13 myths that hold us back from transforming our workplaces. She delivers powerful storytelling combined with practical and hands on ways for us to be more inclusive leaders. She teaches us that when we show up as more inclusive leaders, we have the power to change our organizations, ultimately creating a ripple effect across our ecosystem. You’ll learn: How to understand, confront, and mitigate your own biases as you commit to do the work that starts with yourself. How to coach future leaders and to be intentional about how you lead in your organization—both in public and behind closed doors. To become an active participant in building your workplace’s culture. Reimagine Inclusion walks you through how to: understand the leader’s journey in your organization, interrupt bias at every key decision point, and transform your organization’s systems, processes, and policies to improve inclusivity at every level. This is a must have resource for managers and executives, founders and CEOs. Reimagine Inclusion is for anyone with a stake in building more inclusive, empathetic and resilient organizations, where each and every one of us can thrive.

Reimagine Pricing: How AI is Changing Everything

This book highlights the transformative potential of AI-enabled pricing, showing how it empowers businesses to unlock revenue, optimize customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge. By combining cutting-edge AI technologies with actionable strategies, it offers a comprehensive roadmap for organizations looking to move from reactive, manual pricing processes to proactive, data-driven systems that predict, adapt, and create value in real-time. Focused on practical applications, the book bridges the gap between technological innovation and real-world implementation. It features a unique blend of strategic insights, technical examples—including Python code and AI workflows—and case studies from industries such as retail, travel, and manufacturing. These examples demonstrate how companies have increased margins, reduced churn, and driven customer loyalty by leveraging AI. It also explores fast-evolving trends like autonomous systems, blockchain transparency, and ecosystem-driven pricing, making it essential reading for professionals eager to future-proof their pricing strategies. A key contribution of the book is its focus on the human element of AI adoption. It addresses challenges like resistance to change, ethical considerations in pricing fairness, and building trust with both internal teams and customers. By reframing AI as an enabler rather than a replacement, the book equips pricing professionals to transition from tactical roles to strategic leadership, fostering collaboration between human intuition and machine intelligence. The book raises provocative questions: How can businesses harness AI without compromising ethics or transparency? What skills will pricing teams need to thrive in an AI-driven future? And how can organizations align AI pricing with broader strategic goals? It answers these questions by offering clear, actionable solutions and a vision for integrating AI into the heart of business operations, transforming pricing from a functional necessity into a strategic differentiator. Designed for business leaders, pricing experts, and AI enthusiasts, this book is not just a guide—it’s a call to action to embrace the future of AI-enabled pricing with confidence, creativity, and purpose.

Reimagining Academic Activism: Learning from Feminist Anti-Violence Activists (Organizations and Activism)

How can we reimagine the relationship between academia and activism to provide new opportunities for social change? Based on an ethnography with an anti-violence feminist collective, this vibrant and vital book develops an interdisciplinary approach to activism and activist research, helping us reimagine the role of scholarship in the fight against social inequality. With its reflections on novel tools that can be utilized in the fight for social justice, this book will be a valuable resource for academics in critical management studies, sociology, gender studies, and social work as well as practitioners and policymakers across the social services sector.

Reimagining Alternative Technology for Design in the 21st Century

Reimagining Alternative Technology for Design in the 21st Century presents a new approach to design that harnesses still-valuable alternative, traditional and abandoned technologies alongside the creation of new ones to address contemporary global problems. It focuses on design opportunities that reduce energy and material consumption to tackle issues such as climate change and pollution in industrialized economies. The book takes the reader on a journey surveying different facets of human activity to identify underused and discarded technologies that could be indispensable today. It critically addresses newer approaches to design and technology by comparing them to existing alternatives, unpacking examples including air conditioning with smart thermostats, electric lighting, durable reusable products, domestic maintenance tools and methods of transportation. Written for practicing designers and students in industrial design, architecture, sustainable design and human-centered design, this book provides new ideas and tools for creating more useful, energy-and-resource-efficient product designs and systems.

Reimagining Business History

A vigorous call for rethinking the field of business history.Business history needs a shake-up, Philip Scranton and Patrick Fridenson argue, as many businesses go global and cultural contexts become critical. Reimagining Business History prods practitioners to take new approaches to entrepreneurial intentions, company scale, corporate strategies, local infrastructure, employee well-being, use of resources, and long-term environmental consequences.During the past half century, the history of American business became an unusually active and rewarding field of scholarship, partly because of the primacy of postwar American capital, at home and abroad, and the rise of a consumer culture but also because of the theoretical originality of Alfred D. Chandler. In a field long given over to banal company histories and biographies of tycoons, Chandler took the subject seriously enough to ask about the large patterns and causes of corporate success. Chandler and his students found the richest material for theorizing about the course of business history in large companies and their institutional structures and cultures. Meantime, Scranton and others found smaller firms, those specializing in batch work as opposed to mass-produced goods, far closer to the norm and more telling.Scranton and Fridenson believe that the time has come for a sweeping rethinking of the field, its materials, and the kinds of questions its practitioners should be asking. How can this field develop in an age of global markets, growing information technology, and diminishing resources? A transnational collaboration between two senior scholars, Reimagining Business History offers direction in forty-four short, pithy essays.

Reimagining Businesses with AI

Discover what AI can do for your business with this approachable and comprehensive resource Reimagining Businesses with AI acquaints readers with both the business challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid growth and progress of artificial intelligence. The accomplished authors and digital executives of the book provide you with a multi-industry approach to understanding the intersection of AI and business. The book walks you through the process of recognizing and capitalizing on AI’s potential for your own business. The authors describe: How to build a technological foundation that allows for the rapid implementation of artificial intelligence How to manage the disruptive nature of powerful technology while simultaneously harnessing its capabilities The ethical implications and security and privacy concerns raised by the spread of AI Perfect for business executives and managers who seek a jargon-free and approachable manual on how to implement artificial intelligence in everyday operations, Reimagining Businesses with AI also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone curious about the interaction between artificial intelligence and business.

Reimagining Capitalism in a Post-Globalization World: Proceedings of the 13th Griffiths School of Management & IT Annual Conference (GSMAC 23), Oradea, Romania, June 9, 2023 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)

In a world that is grappling with soaring energy costs, widespread inflation, armed conflicts, and the looming specter of trade wars, world leaders and pundits are actively seeking transformative paradigms to usher in a sense of stability, many of them envisioning a reimagination of capitalism. This volume offers a unique Eastern European perspective on this phenomenon. Featuring select contributions presented at the 13th Annual Griffiths School of Management & IT’s Conference on Business, Entrepreneurship and Ethics (GSMAC 2023), this book explores the future of innovation, digital entrepreneurship, digital leadership and management, stakeholder capitalism, corporate social responsibility, among other areas. The enclosed research identifies challenges of the new social, economic, and technological paradigms companies are facing and offers concrete solutions.

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

A renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a practical pathway forward for a system that has lost its moral and ethical foundation in this "powerful" book (Daron Acemoglu).Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top. The time for action is running short.Rebecca Henderson's rigorous research in economics, psychology, and organizational behavior, as well as her many years of work with companies around the world, gives us a path forward. She debunks the worldview that the only purpose of business is to make money and maximize shareholder value. She shows that we have failed to reimagine capitalism so that it is not only an engine of prosperity but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities, striving for social justice and the demands of truly democratic institutions. Henderson's deep understanding of how change takes place, combined with fascinating in-depth stories of companies that have made the first steps towards reimagining capitalism, provides inspiring insight into what capitalism can be. With rich discussions of how the worlds of finance, governance, and leadership must also evolve, Henderson provides the pragmatic foundation for navigating a world faced with unprecedented challenge, but also with extraordinary opportunity for those who can get it right.

Reimagining Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Change

Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East

Today's economic projections suggest that in less than a generation China and India will become the largest and the third largest economies in the world. Yet the U.S. remains woefully uninformed about the past and present of both countries. This chapter seeks to clarify what's happening in China and India, addressing some of the major differences, as well as the enormous potential for cooperation, between these two global powerhouses.