Filter Results
:
(2,234)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,234)
- News (359)
- Research (1,583)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (911)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,234)
- News (359)
- Research (1,583)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (911)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
If so, who should that be? The Treasury has proposed that systemic risks be monitored by a newly formed Financial Services Oversight Council, with the Fed becoming the primary regulator of all institutions posing such risks. I disagree...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke federal View Details
Keywords:
Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
company’s response to the complaint, but the class discussion turned to the motivations of the man who revealed the wrongdoing. Have you ever thought about blowing the whistle? Dey asked her students. Their response: We’ve thought about it, but it is so costly. At a...
View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
and expanded the Regulation A "mini-public offering" cap from $5 million to $50 million. On the debt side, over the past few years programs at the SBA and other loan guarantee agencies, including the US Department of Agriculture, have...
View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
business model innovation has stalled in the last three decades. Regulations and reimbursement systems currently trap in high-cost venues much care that could be provided in lower-cost, more convenient business models. Other disruptions...
View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. Pharmaceutical companies have long opposed efforts to regulate drug prices, arguing that prices reflect the companies’ massive research investments. But Germany’s approach shows...
View Details
- Career Coach
Jing Lin Lee
clear recruiting roadmap from personal branding, networking, resume building, to preparing for interviews and negotiating / deciding between offers. Jing Lin’s industry experience spans across management consulting, tech, and financial services. She is experienced in...
View Details
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
them powerful competitors in the new marketplaces, but institutionally they need to be nimble and aggressively study the appeal of the new entrants and develop new capabilities. The Role Of Regulation Although the online small business...
View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian...
View Details
Keywords:
Ralph Ranalli
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
required to disclose any whiff of misbehavior to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent monitoring organization regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A research team examined those records to...
View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings...
View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
feared—but Japanese emergency crews were able to replenish the spent-fuel pool water in the nick of time, preventing massive evacuation of Tokyo. US regulators took notice. In 2012, Popik and Mott cofounded the nonprofit Foundation for...
View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
HBS faculty members and other experts across Harvard reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the state of the banking industry. How ‘Payment Banks’ Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse Professor Mihir Desai writes in Harvard Business Review that to shore up...
View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was created by the passage of the 1906 Federal Food and Drugs Act, regulates companies and industries accounting for one-quarter of all consumer spending, roughly $1.5 trillion worth of...
View Details
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
complex situations led me to become a doctoral student at Harvard Law School. Focusing on consumer financial regulation it became clear that to address the questions I was interested in I needed the theoretical foundation and training...
View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- Web
GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology
information. The most notable is the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but other countries are adopting similar resolutions. From Harvard's GDPR Resource Website : The General Data Protection View Details