Enforcement - Publications - Faculty & Research

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

George Floyd’s murder last year forced many people to recognize the systemic racism that pervades American institutions, from law enforcement to health care. Even so, identifying those inequities is different than fixing them. “I don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

therefore unavailable to cannabis firms as long as the substance remains federally prohibited. The cannabis industry is also disadvantaged by a lack of intellectual property protection. Intellectual property and trademark enforcement lie... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

common is how one's use of that information leads to prosperity. This is where the second kind of level playing field comes into play. This would include mechanisms such as ease of starting, running, and folding a business; enforcement of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

well-documented by law enforcement groups, advocacy organizations, and public surveys in the United States since COVID-19 upended the world in 2020. In March of 2020, then-President Donald Trump dubbed COVID-19 “the Chinese virus” in a... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

of a situation that may have been deteriorating for some time. It's our belief that some of the recent financial disasters we've witnessed began as minor errors of judgment and escalated into corruption. As Charles Niemeier, chief accountant for the SEC's View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Oklahoma City bombing Influence: Medium-Low 1900 s 19 First significant enforcement of Sherman Antitrust Act Pure Food and Drug Act; breakup of beef trust Excise Tax imposed on corporations Tariff Act forces corporations to open their... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

authority, “The privacy policy is usually offered gratuitously. It’s not part of the contract and therefore, not enforceable like a contract.” Some had proposed that Facebook change its business model from an advertising to a subscription... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

of Nations, is that free markets require certain conditions in order to function—among them, well-defined property rights, enforceable contracts, non-collusion between parties, and complete knowledge that puts everyone on a level playing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

boldface type ; text below is copied or paraphrased from the LSF page): num= ( default = 1 ): The number of GPUs to request. Note that after your job is dispatched, no matter which GPU one is allocated, the GPUs will be indexed starting from 0. And for security... View Details

2017
Other Book

Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices

By: Matthew Taylor, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent

I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of... View Details

Keywords: Future Of Work; Labor Relations; Marketplaces; Employment; Labor and Management Relations; Labor; Markets

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16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

"disaffiliated" if they failed to adhere to the rules and practices. Standards were enforced through peer-monitoring. In conclusion, Wei-Skillern said that this research might help managers who are trying to create social value... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

Peru, or seven years to open a bakery in Egypt? He attributes much of this to the fact that most of the world lacks a tradition of property rights (which is consistent with the imperfections matrix mentioned above), as well as courts and title insurance to View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

checks, taking their pictures, and having them sign a waiver. Employees use a simulation to practice enforcing the protocols at peak times. Another scenario helps them manage noncompliant customers. Even the richest and most famous... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

17 Aug 2022
News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

monitoring the securities markets and approximately 28,000 registered entities and individuals that interact with those markets, to make sure they’re complying with federal securities laws. “If we believe a person or a company has run afoul of the federal securities... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley