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- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
example, recent SEC proposals to reform the regulation of money market funds, which were a major problem during the financial crisis, don't go far enough. [For more details on what I think we should do in these areas, see my paper on... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
company documents and SEC filings looking for problems, unreasonable risks, or even signs of fraud. "I see much more time being spent—more meetings, longer meetings, more meaningful meetings, and more pre-meeting materials to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
since the SEC was created in the 1930s, so this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to building an orga-nization within government; to see how interactions between individuals influence the design, processes, and results... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
on how it is implemented—what regulations the SEC develops and how it actually is done—we easily could see a law implemented in a way that will exclude small companies from the public capital markets. Sarbanes-Oxley was drafted with Tyco... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
to demand it. In fact, I believe the SEC should make it a requirement. As we all try to come up with solutions to the problems of the planet, integrated reporting is one way to make sure that companies are part of the process. 2. Rebecca... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
for walnut purchases led to Diamond dropping its high profile acquisition of Pringles, an SEC and DOJ investigation, departure of the CEO and CFO, and the grounding of a high flying growth company. The case describes the history and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party approach to ratings. The SEC... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Tatiana Sandino Abstract In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004—the first case where the SEC has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
to this trend are studies linking greater board diversity with higher levels of board performance. And last year, in a move that should at least bring greater transparency to corporate governance, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s new listing... View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
identify a fraud—I'm impressed. It's certainly a user-can-decide number. Q: What proportion of frauds do you think is being missed? A: I have no idea. And if I did, I would figure out a way to systemize that and share it with the SEC so... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
business-to-business long-distance networking company within AT&T. She is a real pro. And thank goodness we have her, because I don't know what we'd do without her, with Wall Street and everything from SEC filings to analyst... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Elected to the board in 2006 and then unanimously selected by her peers as chairman in June 2008, Britell led the board through the aftermath of a tumultuous period that included senior management and board changes, an SEC investigation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
reactions at appointment and loss of fewer subsequent directorships. Nondisclosure of directorships is significantly reduced following changes to SEC rules, with the greatest change being for adverse-event directorships. These findings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
former chairman Alan Greenspan for holding interest rates too low for too long, which inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
For his part, Baker believes multinationals are engaged in increasingly risky behavior. He notes that two major European multinationals with SEC requirements in the United States were recently fined for corruption activity that had no... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
firm pay, we exploit exogenous increases in access to pay information using the SEC 1992 Proxy Disclosure Rule that differentially affected firms. Based on differences-in-differences models, we find increased PRS and decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
2003 and 2004—the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory vote at an annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on October 4, 2010, when the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne