Comment Letters - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

conversation, we have attached to each element a word that begins with the letter I. “ organizational conversation replaces the traditional one-way structure of corporate communication with a dynamic process in which leaders talk with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

enacting the rule, which it has been mulling for years. In October 2013, the SEC posted a request for comment on the idea of pay ratio disclosure. Subsequently, the agency received more than 126,000 letters, which were posted publicly... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

health-care law to see if they reduced upcoding. He is also investigating how regulators might behave strategically to fulfill their mandates while responding to political pressure. The SEC, for example, may strategically use monitoring mechanisms such as View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later acknowledged many encounters with sexist... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented CBA and have reached a set of conclusions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Ramanna Abstract—SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that... View Details