Corporate Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

government-mandated requirements to a 3-inch endangered bait fish. When Good Deeds Invite Bad PublicityMany executives assume that investments in corporate social responsibility create public goodwill. But do they? Felix Oberholzer-Gee... View Details

15 Apr 2011
News

Students Hear Wall St. Critics

cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

02 Jan 2018
First Look

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

environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs imposed by environmental regulation from the 1960s. This argument was primarily based on empirical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

Publications May 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Leading Socially Responsible, Value-Creating Corporations By: Brown, Daniel, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—We explore the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite investors. Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) mandated that any... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Mar 2003
News

Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

market and nonmarket strategy, particularly in the energy industry and in the food and agribusiness sector. He is interested in the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the... View Details

Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

Web

Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

networked resource. Casson, Mark. The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain . New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Chandler, Alfred D. Henry Varnum Poor,... View Details

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

regulators and bank examiners are inconsistent, which leads to confusion and an aversion to taking on more risk from bankers. During the most difficult part of the crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

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How Proxy Advisers Get Companies Talking to Shareholders | Working Knowledge

for failing to change the sometimes secretive ways of corporate boards during high-stakes proxy voting over executive pay and other governance issues. But recent research finds that boards substantially increase their engagement with... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

depend on the ability of its independent regulators to provide for a level playing field between the government and private sector in areas such as insurance, civil aviation, telecom, and energy. Privatizations, tariff reform, an end to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

it? Kenny: It's a real lack of transparency. George: When I was writing the case I was in Europe, and the European regulations, GDPR General Data Protection Regulations, came out. You had to approve Google and Facebook if you wanted to use the sites. The Europeans... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

gets restored is for the investor to quit buying—but that puts the brakes on both corporate investment and technological innovation for an extended period. A better method is to update regulation to restore... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

the primary objective for financial reporting standards will result in a GAAP that is unlikely to adequately serve stakeholders' needs. The theory allows us to compare and contrast extant GAAP, as observed in a regulated setting, with... View Details