Regulatory Changes - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's sovereign long-term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower. Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

switches.] (CEO) Mary Barra takes over. She said, "It's not only a problem we have with safety, which we're going to correct, but we've got a cultural problem and we've got to correct it," And she has. Here we are, five years after she took over. She has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109057 Amylin Pharmaceuticals: Diabetes and Beyond Harvard Business School Case 809-011 Ginger Graham, CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, joined the company with the expectation of taking the company's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

and 75% rise in licensing revenues from multinationals. Second, using additional information on each scientist in these labs, we examine how their research productivity changed in response to different managers. Notably, we find that the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the firm... View Details