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- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
model). This model is used currently by a few of the smaller raters, but it has two main drawbacks. First, it relies heavily on the ability to enforce property rights to information that is very easy to spread. Second, it precludes wide... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
ethical standards.” Indian dental clinics, where size is measured in the unit of chairs, had much smaller overhead, with a specialist’s time by far the most expensive element. For that reason—perhaps along with advertising restrictions View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
substantially revise its guidance on patient-assistance programs. They conclude that current guidance or enforcement of the guidance enables drugmakers to earn kickbacks from their donations, and encourages drugmakers to charge higher... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
practices by debt collectors and has recently taken high-profile enforcement actions against several firms.) Second, in the mind of consumers, Turkasset’s kinder and gentler approach reflects back on the banks that originally held the... View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
Goldberg and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Note 311-020 Under the U.S. Patent Act, a patent owner has a statutory right to exclude others from engaging in the unauthorized production, use, sale, or importation of a patented invention. This note examines how that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for the "Audit Policy," a United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for the "Audit Policy," a United States... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
PublicationsMediators in Position Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract A mediator is a reliable entity, which can play on behalf of agents in a given game. A mediator however... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
retailers, including Gap Inc., Target, and JCPenney, that took place just a year and a half before the fire: At the meeting in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, in April 2011, retailers discussed a contractually enforceable memorandum that... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
learn if a standardized and institutionalized organizational learning process like SFP can enhance dynamic capabilities. The SFP model is illustrated with an application to Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division. 2006 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
welfare-enhancing reforms, on the ability of firms and households to write contracts, and on the ability of citizens to enforce their basic rights. How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross Section of Returns Authors:Malcolm Baker,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
financial stability in countries worldwide—information that researchers hope could help prevent a potential crisis. Regulations have also helped enforce resiliency, including a measure forcing banks to hold at least twice—in some cases... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
interest in enforcing consistency in order to build their brands. On the other, their business models are predicated on the ability to empower professionals to deliver services independently. The key word to understanding this brave new... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays or Sundays off. There is little... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
excessive influence (by any stakeholder) Scott believed that the role of government was to establish reasonable rules and to enforce them.” Nongovernmental organizations bear some responsibility, too. As Jim W pointed out: “Delaware’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
legally enforceable agreements only with specific legal entities. Using a sample of bank loans issued to U.S. parent companies, I find that a more complex corporate legal structure is associated with higher loan spreads. The findings are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
to help anticipate the next flash point, putting into practice significant enforcement actions, and introducing new management structures. Although he thinks Sarbanes-Oxley needs some adjustment to lower the compliance costs for smaller... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
against federal law? But in the absence of enforcement action by the United States government, perhaps the better question is, what will the inevitable national market in marijuana shake out? Will it consist of grungy underground head... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
U.S. firms and foreign firms from strong rule of law countries show a positive association between restatement frequency and internal control weaknesses. Firms from weak rule of law countries show no significant association. We interpret these findings as home country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne