It is important to assess the regulatory environment in which your business operates, including the rules, orders, and guidances issued by regulatory bodies that may affect your industry. In this course, you will be provided with the tools needed to identify regulatory bodies and their activities in your business area.

You will examine the processes that regulatory bodies utilize as well as the connections they have to legal systems that affect your business. By understanding the avenues in which regulatory bodies communicate with your industry, you’ll be poised to support your teams as you stay current with developments affecting your role and beyond.

How can you influence regulatory policy in your industry? As you will discover, there are many ways you can support your legal team to impact regulatory policy before it is finalized, providing you and your teams with more flexibility to engage with your work in efficient, purposeful ways.

In this course, you will explore strategies for influencing regulatory policy before agencies finalize the policy. Specific strategies will support your learnings, challenging you to apply these perspectives to your specific industry. You’ll also evaluate the legal limits of and opportunities in assessing and disputing finalized regulations.

As you become familiar with these approaches, you will recognize the benefits of strategically communicating with regulatory officials as well as the possible limits of relying on their advice and guidance. Through this course, you’ll gain strategies to bring back to your teams, serving you as you engage with regulation at your organization and your industry as a whole.

To understand the import and impact of current regulatory policies, engagement with the founding ones is crucial. In this course, you will gain this strategic perspective, starting with the late 19th century when oil and railroad industries were booming and becoming more powerful as they grew, raising the concern of some lawmakers. As a result, the Sherman Act was drafted and passed to ensure that competition continued to thrive and that no one individual or firm controlled too much of an industry. Later, legislators also added the Clayton Act to guard against mergers that thwart competition.

Through this course, you will discover how antitrust law was born with just three simple phrases and begin to understand how it has evolved from those beginnings, affecting the modern marketplace every day. One major way that firms compete is on price, and you’ll explore how courts have reacted as some firms got together and agreed on prices instead of competing.

You will also examine court decisions on other agreements among competitors in business as well as professional organizations, sports leagues, and institutions of higher education. By the end of this course, you’ll have gained the necessary perspective on these major events to make informed, strategic decisions for your firm in today’s marketplace.

In this course, you will focus on Section 2 of the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act, which forbid monopolies and states that mergers are illegal if the effect may be to substantially lessen competition, respectively. These laws don’t have strict definitions, so it has been left to courts to interpret.

You will walk through a series of court cases to examine what behaviors have come to define monopolistic conduct and how courts — as well as regulators — have tried to determine whether a merger should be prohibited because it will stifle competition. Through this course, you’ll gain a better understanding of the impact these laws and their interpretations have on the overall marketplace and your organization as you do business in the 21st century.

eCornell Online Workshops are live, interactive 3-hour learning experiences led by Cornell faculty experts. These premium short-format sessions focus on AI topics and are designed for busy professionals who want to gain immediately applicable skills and strategic perspectives. Workshops include faculty presentations, breakout discussions, guided hands-on practice, and downloadable resources.

The AI Workshops All-Access Pass provides you with unlimited participation for 6 months from your date of purchase. Whether you choose to attend one workshop per month, or several per week, the All-Access Pass will allow you to customize your AI journey and stay on top of the latest AI trends.

Workshops cover a range of cutting-edge AI topics applicable across industries, hosted by Cornell faculty at the forefront of their fields. Whether you are just getting started with AI, seeking to build your AI skillset, or exploring advanced applications of AI, Workshops will provide you with an action-oriented learning experience for immediate application in your career. Sample Workshops include:

  • Work Smarter with AI Agents: Individual and Team Effectiveness
  • Leading AI Transformation: Bigger Than You Imagine, Harder Than You Expect
  • Using AI at Work: Practical Choices and Better Results
  • Search & Discoverability in the Era of AI
  • Don’t Just Prompt AI – Govern it
  • AI-Powered Product Manager
  • Leverage AI and Human Connection to Lead through Uncertainty

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