Issues For Banks And Regulators - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

Source: iStock In June 2017, the US House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act, a 589-page bill designed to repeal many of the regulations in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

rising sea levels. Physical risks reflect “the potential for losses as climate-related changes disrupt business operations, destroy capital and interrupt economic activity,” according to Kevin Stiroh,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

work." He would address the issue by: (1) (greeting) "all immigrants with a social security card" (implying payment of taxes, Medicare, etc.) and (2) requiring employers to "pay... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

The question of whether advertising 'informs' or 'persuades' consumers is the subject of a long and ongoing stream of debate and research.— Alvin Silk Initially there was relatively little use View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

"actively trained and encouraged and supported for being human.” A clean start or one built on one or more existing initiatives? Government View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

dramatically. Q: If there is agreement that a broadband explosion is generally a desirable thing, what role should government regulators and policymakers play in encouraging it? A: This is one of the major... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

large, corporate acquirers. At the same time, their approach addresses venture capital's reliance on public markets for liquidity events—which all but evaporated with the dot-com collapse of March 2000. Hetz View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

charging people egregious amounts for insurance that they didn't necessarily need," she says. "They were placing insurance at five times the cost they told regulators they would." Estimating... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

successfully. Megibow's team investigated the reason for the failures, again using Web metrics data and server log files throughout the process. Apparently, the "Company" field under the customer's... View Details

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

advantage. Most of these retailers allowed consumers to buy on credit. Many, such as Marshall Field's, issued a store charge card to good customers. Charge cards and other possibilities View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

business in India during the decades of the 1970s and 1980s. Bajaj Auto, the leading two-wheeler manufacturer in India, for a long period could do little to fight a slow-moving bureaucracy in a highly View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

vistas for commerce and, in the process, will challenge relations between private firms and the governments that seek to regulate them. The information revolution is alive... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

Historically, though, such research has neglected to consider how firms are affected by major local events, whether they be planned (the Super Bowl or FIFA World Cup, for instance) or unplanned (an earthquake or hurricane). Marquis View Details