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- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self-assessed skills, and attitudes toward risk. Moreover, we find that regulation plays a critical role, particularly for those individuals who become... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
obtaining both good and bad news from their school-tied firms, but perhaps as a tacit agreement, acting only on the positive news." Importantly, the research takes into account stock returns in the years before and after the October 2000 adoption View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
time, researchers would be able to predict financial vulnerability. Enter the BFFS project, which focuses on five areas: regulation and monetary policy, measuring bubbles, extrapolation and neglected risks,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Glauber As the nation’s financial crisis unfolded in late September, Bob Glauber (DBA ’65) and his wife were exploring the old Silk Road in remote Central Asia. But that didn’t deter intrepid reporters from trying to track him down for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
measurement and disclosure of important metrics and information. In this chapter, we examine the effect of sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices and valuations. Specifically, we explore the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
is economically unviable, and it would require a lot of process innovation to make financial sense and for them to scale it. Despite the potential here, Mr. Acharya doesn’t “see it happening in the next 20 years”. However, View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
into market manipulation, especially in Japan? Robin Greenwood: Generally speaking, market manipulation comes in two forms: manipulating investor expectations, or manipulating investors' ability to trade. Financial economists know a lot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1994 Under intense pressure from industry, regulators decide stock options should not be reported as a compensation expense but as footnotes in financial statements. 2002 Following the collapse of Enron and... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Summing Up Basic conclusions that can be drawn from responses to this month's column are that it may or may not be useful to try to legislate accounting transparency. But such efforts address symptoms, not causes, of behaviors leading to purposely misleading View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
really hard to earn and to keep the public’s trust.” Beyond regulating the region’s financial industry, Jones and her team are engaged with educating the public to increase View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
guarantees” that compel the government to bail out large financial institutions. Moss’s own reform ideas have helped frame the ongoing Washington debate and make a clear, persuasive argument for more federal View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
rethink the entire traditional higher education model. Private universities without national recognition and large endowments are at great financial risk. So are public universities, even prestigious ones such as the University of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Decision Points
have done things better,” as he spoke about many aspects and issues of his presidency (USA Today, November 9, 2010). Regarding the financial crisis, Bush said that Congress ignored his administration’s urgings to View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Energy Industry
financial regulators This report identifies so many important recommendations to address the systemic risk that the climate crisis presents. Global Energy Review 2020 The impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on... View Details