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Aspen InstituteBusiness and Society ProgramBusiness Education SymposiumMarket Failure and the Regulatory EnvironmentRyan Cabinte -- October 16, 2014
Two social enterprises
Destroys CFCs for carbon credits Insects as food
Two social enterprises
FUNDEDNOT FUNDED
(YET)
Destroys CFCs for carbon credits Insects as food
Insects as food
The Farm Bill is a headwind
Chirp flour is not cost competitive
The substitutes are too heavily subsidized
Destroys CFCs for carbon credits
Wrote their own special interest legislation
Piggy-backed on AB32 for verification protocol for CFC destruction
Niche created and protected by regulation
Learning outcomes:
Understand the interdependent relationship between markets and regulation.
Understand market failure and regulatory intervention as frameworks for synthesizing and evaluating potential solutions to sustainability problems.
Apply the above understandings to synthesize and evaluate new solutions to sustainability problems that reach across sectors (business, government, and civil society).
Learning outcomes (Cliff Notes):
Every time you see a business, see the policy necessary to scale it.
Every time you see a policy, see the businesses that are created.
When public problems are intractable, look to the business-policy relationship for new options for action.
Why an intersectoral approach for MBAs?
• It’s an application of systems thinking• Social enterprises often gravitate to highly regulated industries
Firms jumping sectoral boundaries–Innovation in corporate forms
• Benefit corporations, Flexible Purpose Companies, L3Cs–CSR as firm-level attempt to measure public interest impact–Investment innovation: Social Impact bonds, SRI, Impact investing
• Lobbying as scaling strategy – Bloom, Paul. (June 18, 2012) How to Take a Social Venture To Scale. Harvard Business Review. – Bannick and Goldman. (Sept. 25, 2012) Priming the Pump for Impact Investing. Stanford Social Innovation Review.
• Sustainability orgs getting stuck by regulatory infrastructure• Large, mainstream corporations take an intersectoral approach
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Shareholders
Managers
The Corporation
Shareholders
Managers
Competitors
Customers
The 3 Cs (Kenichi Ohmae, UCLA/McKinsey)
Shareholders
Managers
Competitors
Customers
Suppliers
Substitutes
Pot. Entrants
Porter’s 5 Forces(Michael Porter)
Shareholders
Managers
Competitors
Customers
Suppliers
Substitutes
Pot. Entrants
Blue Ocean
Porter’s 5 Forces(Michael Porter)
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Blue Ocean Strategy(Kim & Mauborgne)
Shareholders
Managers
Competitors
Customers
Suppliers
Substitutes
Pot. Entrants
EmployeesLocal CommunitiesSocial Needs
NGOs
Media Blue Ocean
Creating Shared Value(Michael Porter and Mark Kramer)
Shareholders
Managers
Competitors
Customers
Suppliers
Substitutes
Pot. Entrants
EmployeesLocal CommunitiesSocial Needs
NGOs
Media Blue Ocean
Creating Shared Value(Michael Porter and Mark Kramer)
Managing for Stakeholders(R. Edward Freeman, Darden/UVA)
Complementors(Brandenberger & Nalebuff, Yale)
Ecosystem services
Shareholders
Managers
Customers
Suppliers
Pot. Entrants
EmployeesLocal CommunitiesSocial Needs
NGOs
Blue Ocean
Sustainable Business
Competitors
Media
Substitutes
Hofstadter, Douglas. Godel, Escher Bach
Ecosystem services
Shareholders
Managers
Customers
Suppliers
Pot. Entrants
EmployeesLocal CommunitiesSocial Needs
NGOs
Blue Ocean
Sustainable Business
Competitors
Media
Substitutes
Ecosystem services
Shareholders
Managers
Customers
Suppliers
Pot. Entrants
EmployeesLocal CommunitiesSocial Needs
NGOs
Blue Ocean
Competitors
Media
Substitutes
Regulation
Ecosystem services
Shareholders
Managers
Customers
Suppliers
Pot. Entrants
EmployeesLocal CommunitiesSocial Needs
NGOs
Blue Ocean
Competitors
Media
Substitutes
Regulation
Hofstadter, Douglas. Godel, Escher Bach
So how to deal with complexity?
Hofstadter, Douglas. Godel, Escher Bach
So how to deal with complexity?
Provide a model
Perfect Market
Market Failure
Government Intervention
Government Failure
Intractable public problems
Perfect Market
Market Failure
Government Intervention
Government Failure
Intractable public problems
Perfect Market
Perfect InformationNo barriers to entry/exitEqual access to technologyNo market powerUndifferentiated ProductsPeople and firms maximize utility
Market FailureEconomic (Pareto Optimal)•Imperfect information•Insufficient competition•Externalities
•Public Goods•Public, toll, common pool goods
•Principal/Agent problems•Transaction Costs
Social/Political•“Non-market“ system breakdown
• e.g, ecological, family, social•Moral objection•Socially important goods•Procedural Fairness•Distributive Justice
Government InterventionTaxRegulate Subsidize/GrantProvide ServiceBudgetEnable information flowEstablish/Modify RightsModify economic activityEducate/ConsultFinance/Set ContractsPolitical/Bureaucratic Reform
ContractsProperty (IP)EnvironmentalCorporate FormationCapital MarketsMarriage EqualityGun ControlClimate
Government FailurePublic Choice•Voting Paradoxes•Logrolling•Rent Seeking•Bureaucracy•Tax “Avoison”•Federalism
Regulatory CaptureLobbyingOverreach/OverrestrictionInsufficient FundingUnderfundingCompliance/Enforcement
How do you get MBA students to work with these concepts?
Term Assignment• Step 1. Pick and articulate an intractable public problem statement• Step 2. Research, then develop at least:
– 3 business solutions, – 3 policy solutions,* and – 3 NGO solutions
• Step 3. Develop common criteria for evaluation and pick a winner in each sector– Evaluate the winners according to their sector-specific criteria
• Step 4. Articulate an intersectoral strategy
*Use Bardach’s Eightfold Path
Example: Problem statement“Over six million tons of valuable organic materials are
wasted in Southern California's landfills every year.
These materials break down anaerobically, and emit the equivalent of 3.4 million tons of carbon dioxide - a harmful
global warming gas - into the atmosphere.”
Context• Organic waste is currently a cost – Private: Hauling and landfill tipping fees– Public: GHG emissions
• Organic waste can be profit– Energy feedstock and soil amendment
• Technology exists• Currently not commercial• Currently infrastructure inadequate
Context• 80% of organic waste goes to landfill• Battling regs (AB 939):– 50% of all organic waste must be diverted – Exception: organic waste can be used as alternative daily
cover (ADC) in landfills • Thus, landfills accept organic waste at no charge
Context• If exception lifted, diverted organic waste would overwhelm
existing processing infrastructure– 6.4M ton capacity vs. 10M tons in new supply under 50%
mandate
Context• State permitting regs for anaerobic digestion facilities
onerous• Air Quality regs create uncertainty in cost of compost facilities• Competing synthetic fertilizers subsidized– Positive externalities of organic waste soil amendment not
internalizable
Step 2: Solutions
Step 2. Solutions
Step 2. Solutions
Step 3: Criteria
Public Sector Solution Evaluation: Mitigation credits for organics infrastructure
Private Sector Solution Evaluation:Develop an Anaerobic Digestion Facility
Financial Analysis…
Non-Profit Sector Solution Evaluation:Multi-sector organics diversion lobbying group
5 Forces +1…
Preferred Solution
Must increase….
A final note
Dueling problem statements
1. Organic waste diversion technology exists and is not commercial
2. Organic waste diversion technology exists and is commercial, but has not scaled
Aspen InstituteBusiness and Society ProgramBusiness Education SymposiumMarket Failure and the Regulatory EnvironmentRyan Cabinte -- October 16, 2014