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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
was recouped through a schedule of commission rates on stock transactions by the firm's clients. These commissions were regulated by the exchanges along with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The... 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
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
chief regulator of America’s securities markets. To make matters worse, Donaldson hardly had time to settle into his new job before revelations surfaced of wrongdoing in the mutual-fund industry, triggering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
along with the plan. It worked with IBM to solidify blockchain’s functionality and security and found a willing, technologically progressive client in the Swiss private equity firm Unigestion. The final piece was bringing in similarly... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
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 with making the Fed the primary... View Details
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
Assets We establish a security-first mindset across HBS to proactively identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities. We also ensure compliance with privacy standards and regulations while establishing balanced View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
believed that the government should play a more active role in the financial system by regulating national securities exchanges. In February 1934, the president urged Congress to enact such legislation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
have exceeded to date. More Help Required The 2012 JOBS Act reduced the regulatory burden for small businesses looking to raise equity in the public markets. It provided an "on-ramp" of up to five years for new IPOs to phase in certain costly View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
greater energy security. Indeed, from an energy security perspective, Trombay’s value proposition is unmatched with its reliability as a baseload power source and its ability to flex between imported and domestic coal. This brings us to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
share of mortgages through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration, and the Federal Reserve buys most of the securities guaranteed by these entities. Congress has not yet agreed on a system with a better balance of... 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
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
environment by accessing finance at better terms. “The whole idea of ESG investing is predicated on the notion that by tilting their portfolios towards securities that have better ESG properties, investors might be able to change who has... 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
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
sector, including space-for-earth and space-for-space activities in LEO, cislunar, Mars, and other areas of operation. Identify feasible ways of regulating and governing decentralized space activities, including the establishment of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
served nearly six years as chairman and CEO of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). And then there are the nearly 25 years he spent teaching finance at HBS. If anyone could give the long view on what was happening on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing financing system,” said Retsinas,... View Details
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Mobility Policy | About
Mobility Policy Safety and Security have long been top priorities at Harvard Business School. In an effort to maintain a safe campus HBS has developed a plan for campus use micromobility devices and motorized bicycles. Our campus is... View Details
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
already public acquirer - remains a critical step in corporate transformation by private equity investors and innovation by venture capitalists. Because public capital markets play such a key role in the global economy, government View Details