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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations; 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements; or 3) absorbing... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for people of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Risk . New York, N.Y.: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Bernstein, Peter L. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street . New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 1992. Bertsimas, Dimitris, Leonid Kogan, and Andrew W. Lo. "Pricing and Hedging Derivative View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Fetter: Serious questions about employment-based insurance People are appreciating our frontline health care workers more and recognizing the critical role hospitals play in our health care system. I hope this will lead to investments in a more View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Decision Processes Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making By: Gino, Francesca, and J.J. Lee Abstract—This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
a vile 'market timer' is a sad commentary on how inflexibly the mutual fund industry is viewed by academics, regulators and distributors." Richard Eckel suggests that both perceptions and real problems will be addressed when, among... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
participation by everyday folk in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
what some perceive to be a narrowing between the rewards and risks of such ventures? Whether because of reduced market expectations or increased transactional costs resulting from deteriorating international relations, tighter regulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
remember thinking, oh, that must just be my dad; he must be the only person who cares about that." The Dodd-frank Requirement Fast-forward to 2010, when the US Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. A response to the Great... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
measures. The election is held, and the union is either accepted or not. Unions are now trying to change the rules, by lobbying for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, under which workplaces would be automatically unionized if union organizers View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information from an SEC form The researchers also collected information from the Security and Exchange Commission’s Schedule 13D forms for the same time period. And here’s where the potentially shady broker activity starts to become... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
people, any more than telephones or electricity are options. Because the infrastructure is that essential, that's why politics will be involved." The role of regulation in this environment, she said, is to be both flexible and creative:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
of the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the factory manufactures zinc-galvanized, plastic-coated welded wire mesh used to make lobster traps, security fencing, and other wire products, using a process Knott invented. The... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
when the costs of financing a reorganization are greater than financing costs to a potential acquirer. Consistent with a senior creditor liquidation bias, the greater use of secured debt leads to more sales in bankruptcy-but, this result... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
We showed it to important business leaders—some HBS alumni, some not—from around the world and asked them for their views on potential problem areas and what role HBS might play in addressing them. The fact is that in many parts of the world, firms are not privately... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
accelerate progress toward malaria elimination and gaining a better understanding of what it takes to successfully deliver global health solutions. Although the population vulnerable to malaria has doubled since 2010, funding has plateaued over the same horizon3,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace. Will anonymity be relinquished... View Details