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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
Tough regulation of the largest financial firms is not as sexy as muscular rhetoric about ending too big to fail; but over the long term it is the surest way to prevent another financial crisis. — David Moss is the John G. McLean... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
elsewhere that regulation can provide the legitimacy and order that nascent industries need in order to grow. Are there any calls for regulation from within the baby business itself? In the early days of a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?
Financial System, warns that “reinstatement of Glass-Steagall would increase the likelihood that the government would bail out a large financial institution in the future.” Meanwhile, the proposed Volker Rule has its weaknesses. Chiefly,... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
emeritus Sam Hayes: “The October 19 crash also calls into question the de facto rules and regulations that we’ve been working with for the last fifty years or so and how far we have come from the assumptions underlying the reform... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
The Congressional Oversight Panel identified eight specific areas most urgently in need of reform and addressed each with recommendations: Identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risk. Limit excessive leverage in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
the product of long, structured deliberation. As for the decision to let AIG pay out its controversial bonuses, regulators simply refused to address the issue until events had moved beyond their control. And going back even further, few... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke federal View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
market and nonmarket strategy, particularly in the energy industry and in the food and agribusiness sector. He is interested in the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant by Michel Anteby (Princeton University Press) Employees know that not every workplace regulation must be followed. When... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
standardization, and regulation. She was careful to clarify the regulation phase. "What I'm talking about are the basic, underlying rules, which are primarily rules of property rights," said Spar. She thinks View Details
- 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
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
strategic research questions in four main areas: government and markets, institutions of democracy, economic inequality, and national security. Does the organization contribute to policymaking? Our primary goal is to support scholars in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
didn’t fix it and had twelve years of stagnation.” To avoid a similar fate, the Treasury’s support of ailing U.S. banks was inevitable, he says. Now, at 69, Glauber teaches one course a year on regulating capital markets, which he says is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
emerging markets’ potential and crafting strategies for succeeding in those markets. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
feared—but Japanese emergency crews were able to replenish the spent-fuel pool water in the nick of time, preventing massive evacuation of Tokyo. US regulators took notice. In 2012, Popik and Mott cofounded the nonprofit Foundation for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
how business and governments worldwide had worked together to resolve the ozone-depletion problem by tightening regulations and by eliminating the use of CFCs through improved and cost-saving industrial... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding