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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to exclude specific proposals from the proxy statement. From 2003 to 2013, we find that managers seek to exclude 40% of all proposals they receive, but the SEC does not permit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
did not apply. For all practical purposes, Musalem had only one customer for his company’s Hep C medicine: Mexico’s public health system and the National Pricing Commission that set prices annually for the entire sector. With no lack of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
group drifted out of the room. Suddenly the sole remaining man, "Vladimir," looked straight at Bruce and stated: "I am a high-ranking KGB officer. I have been commissioned to make to you a proposal." Drunk, isolated,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
EU Commission President Juncker sees “the wind [ ] back in Europe's sails.” Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55046 Harvard Business School Case 518-034 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
gaming of Securities and Exchange Commission rules by Citigroup's mortgage-banking desk in 2007 is an illuminating example of institutional corruption in the finance industry. After exploring that case, I provide a more complete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
architecture and IT agility. In particular, we use modular systems theory to examine how different types of coupling impact the ability to maintain, retire, and commission new software applications. We test our hypotheses with a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
omission and commission cannot slip undetected into the transaction processing stream. The behavioral and motivational assumptions that underlie these systems are analyzed. Finally, the module described how managers can impose strategic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
Commission and uses AI to determine whether a donor’s last name was of South Asian descent. Now we’re running an analysis on how South Asians finance campaigns—to understand where people are putting their dollars—that offers more nuance... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic Authors:Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract Using Internet traffic patterns from the Securities and Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the 20-30% commission charged by its competition, would help differentiate it and gain the necessary traction in an ostensibly concentrated market between Uber and Lyft. Despite both Uber’s and Lyft’s valuations skyrocketing to $50... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
realization that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers (including particularly his wife). As a result, Lo commissioned his CFO Bonnie Tu to open the first all-women's bicycle store in Taipei (owned by corporate, not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
access and agency to design their own destiny," she said. Kyle Weil (MBA 2026)Kyle served on the Denver Commission for People with Disabilities for over three years as the then-youngest chair in the commission’s history. During his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to brashly demand kickbacks on the commissions iTrust earns from the vendors whose products we sell,” says Varma. iTrust dealt with this problem head on by posting its kickbacks policy on its Web site. It reads in part: Under no... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
one-third they did 10 years earlier, he said. Mortgage brokers were paid on commission and on the basis of originating a loan; they were unconcerned with whether the mortgage was repaid. In the pursuit of scale, mortgage banks bundled... View Details
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Executive Officer of Schön Klinik, a German for-profit 15 hospitals, 4.500 beds provider organization. Jens has served in various healthcare associations, e.g. as a board member of the German Private Hospitals‘ Association, the Healthcare View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
"educate Indians"-a suspected euphemism for bribery. Opposition political parties accused Wal-Mart of bribing the Indian government, which, on the eve of a general election, appointed a judicial commission to investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt announced their "grave concerns" about it in an unusual joint press release that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
else in town, when they commission content, they own the IP. But we made the strategic decision not to compete with our suppliers,” Toubassy says. Instead Quibi pays the studios’ production costs up front, including a 20 percent premium... View Details