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- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
committee, established by then SEC chair Arthur Levitt, to formulate best practices with regard to stockbrokers' activities and compensation. These were not legislative remedies, they were recommendations for voluntary standards of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
the second, protagonist Anne Mulcahy, then COO of Xerox, copes with possible bankruptcy, an SEC investigation, and dwindling morale. An interdisciplinary group of senior faculty spent a year developing LCA to help students understand the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
the SEC should require it. As we all try to come up with solutions to the problems of the planet, integrated reporting is one way to make sure that companies are part of the process. — HBS professor Robert G. Eccles is coauthor with... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
accounting and SEC rules throughout that portion of the company where he had direct authority and accountability. Since Enron is certainly not the only company to have engaged in such gaming, the important question raised by this marker... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
an odd experience for Kramer the journalist: SEC rules prohibited MarketWatch from covering its own much-anticipated debut - or even from running stories by other news media that might mention it - so as not to unfairly promote its stock.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
from their income taxes. Third, the government should make sure that everyone buys health insurance, regulate health insurers to ensure honesty and financial stability, and monitor the quality of information, just as the SEC does for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
stance as director general of SEC Nigeria. “We made sure that the cost of wrongdoing was very high and that there were no sacred cows. I knew that the Nigerian capital markets could be transformative—that this was a role where I could... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without competition or transparency, which led to disastrous ratings inflation. In short, “The economic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
For his part, Baker believes multinationals are engaged in increasingly risky behavior. He notes that two major European multinationals with SEC requirements in the United States were recently fined for corruption activity that had no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
business administration cannot change the world. The recourse I see is to establish a level of supervision above the corporate world, either private sector or government. Of the two, only government is susceptible to opinion of mere citizens. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
heading off a cliff.” Concurrent with Schumer’s bill, the SEC voted on May 20 to seek public comment on a proposal to give shareholders the right to place board nominees on the company’s proxy ballot. Said View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
it's something new; financial institutions are worried about losing money; the federal government is concerned about compliance problems associated with designing a new system to serve so many people; the lawyers are worried about SEC... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
Regina Herzlinger; former FCC head Reed Hundt, with Professor David Yoffie, in a session on the digital and broadband revolution; and top FBI official Philip Mudd, taking part in Associate Professor Jan Rivkin’s presentation on the organizational integration of... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
once the SEC makes its moves. It's the first time the pair has worked together. After they graduated from high school, Callaghan pursued undergraduate studies in economics at Harvard College. Two years after graduating, he entered HBS.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
modern regulators, such as the SEC whistleblower program [a similar program authorized in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act], the DOT’s Motor Vehicle Safety whistleblower program, and more recently the Treasury’s anti-money-laundering whistleblower... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
to this trend are studies linking greater board diversity with higher levels of board performance. And last year, in a move that should at least bring greater transparency to corporate governance, the SEC approved Nasdaq’s new listing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
since the SEC was created in the 1930s, so this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to building an orga-nization within government; to see how interactions between individuals influence the design, processes, and results... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
they are. Their names appear on the generic, straight-to-the-wastebasket proxy forms that shareholders receive. But despite recent improvements that have increased shareholders’ voices in governance, a levelheaded observer like former SEC... View Details