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  • 27 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

congressman and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. DeLay had a slew of scandals around 2005, charged with violating campaign finance laws and linked to lobbying improprieties, resulting in his 2006 resignation from office. He was later... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

be financially constrained or lobbied for the holiday. Instead, estimates indicate that a $1 increase in repatriations was associated with a $0.60 to $0.92 increase in payouts to shareholders—despite regulations stating that such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting standards and because a significant fraction of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in 2001. In the years since, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

increase in domestic investment, employment or R@amp;D—even for the firms that lobbied for the tax holiday stating these intentions and for firms that appeared to be financially constrained. Instead, a $1 increase in repatriations was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

but an insufficient grasp of the details, and CMOs (chief marketing officers) often view go-to-market decisions as being tactical. What passes for channel strategy often rests with sales divisions, but their primary motivation is to sell and they neither craft channel... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

investing in common stocks that were less than three to five years old, or had not paid dividends for several years. Since ARD specified that half of its capital had to come from institutions, its founders felt it was necessary to lobby... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

to SEC concerns over pooling misuse. I also find evidence consistent with lobbying support for SFAS 142 increasing in firms' discretion under the standard. Agency theory predicts such unverifiable discretion can be used opportunistically.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53646 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review The New CEO Activists By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Though corporations have been lobbying the government and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

lobbying and maneuvering on individual pieces of legislation and regulation, businesses need to use collective institutions to define and promote a positive, values-based, non-partisan agenda. That will allow them to regain credibility in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

IFRS in China Karthik Ramanna, G.A. Donovan, and Nancy DaiHarvard Business School Case 110-037 In 2005, China announced plans to "converge with," but not completely adopt, IFRS. China also began to lobby for changes to specific... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

driving around with a map and sticking little dots on it to represent different types of property," recalls Lionstone's Dubrowski. "I'd identify tenants in a building by walking into the lobby and reading the directory."... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

nonpayor" debate around judicial corruption. The model highlights formal similarities between lobbying and extortion. Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling-Device Authors:Rafael Di... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

policy, not only would Medicare not cover the medication, but patients could no longer pay for it out of pocket. Instead, the cost had to be absorbed by the physician or surgery center. Imprimis now had to figure out a way to deal with the effects of this policy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

regulatory proposals around credit unions coming out of the financial crisis from the policy-making perspective. Credit unions have lobbied policymakers for expanded powers that will enable them to help stimulate the economy and create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

exceptions-including major ones-may in fact arise. We focus on three historical cases in which special interests apparently gave way to the general interest in the policy making process: the enactment of Medicare in 1965, in which the powerful doctors View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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