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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
If so, who should that be? The Treasury has proposed that systemic risks be monitored by a newly formed Financial Services Oversight Council, with the Fed becoming the primary regulator of all institutions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
an economic crisis erupts, something that has happened with regularity. Nor does it stop governments from intervening at the risk of doing more harm than good. Few, it seems, learn from the lessons of history. In Ferguson’s view, the real... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
and responsibilities, limits of markets and models, risk and restraint, pros and cons of regulation — all appeared in some form in the cases I studied. The best way to learn leadership in business is to give... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Bagley: Legal literacy should be a priority for managers. In her new book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (HBS Press), Associate Professor Constance E. Bagley contends that managers... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
we regulate AI as it develops in a way that gets the best out of it while limits the things that are potentially problematic and where it can be misused. Morrell: Have you thought about what that regulation... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
No Mistake About It: Trust Is Key in Learning It's a real Catch-22: Learning is more critical than ever to firm success, yet the process often requires making mistakes. And many people believe mistakes lead to failure and thus avoid View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
cash, which is held by a regulated third party in a segregated account. “Holding 100 percent liquid collateral for our stablecoins eliminates any risk of a bank run, which is something no other provider can... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
to think about something outside its narrow interests is very difficult.” Similarly, activists and government regulators are also immersed in the worldview of their own environments. “There’s bonding in running down the other and in... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
circumstances under which companies can, in terms of the environment, most successfully create value or lessen business risk. (An example of value created and risk reduced might be found with a newly developed, disease-resistant plant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
list of every loan in the works, discussing risk factors, the market, and local politics. “That’s always an interesting meeting for me, since I used to be on the borrower’s side at my job in Houston.” Oakes says that before she heard... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
most companies, the financial risk remained too high to justify the potential reward—a situation that too often led to dangerous vaccine shortages. It was at this moment that Moderna turned its attention to vaccines. The company had been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
issues that came out of that bust. So they’re almost too conservative. They’re not investing in infrastructure as much as they could or should. I’ve literally called banks while working on real estate development projects, and they’re going, ‘Nope, we’ve got enough of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
may be “extraordinary,” but it runs the risk of missing the mark. Studying “meltdown,” “executive pay,” “reporting,” and “liquidity” could be useful. Those subjects, however, are consequences not causes. Please give some thought and study... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are... View Details