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  • 01 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

with the opportunity to apply for an additional three-year extension. During this period, workers can request green cards and secure permanent residency status if they desire. The current annual cap for the "regular" H1-B category is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

House version of the CHOICE Act were passed into law, an individual investor in Exxon Mobil would need to own at least $3.49 billion of stock in order to be permitted to submit a proposal for shareholder consideration, based on the company’s market View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

minimize risk of stress and loss of time dealing with claims and costs to their reputation and future employment. On the other side of the equation, a cap on damages through tort reform can influence whether or not a doctor is sued in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

flexibility of executive compensation is so enormous that it's always possible to find loopholes. It can even create distorting incentives that make the problem worse." In 1993, for example, Congress imposed a $1 million cap on CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

potentially relevant patents agree to a price cap on royalties just before a standard is set—after which the standard-setting body is prohibited from discussing pricing. Price commitments have the potential to create a scenario that is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Inflation Reduction Act, which aims to constrain price growth of existing drugs, cap seniors’ out-of-pocket drug spending, and eventually enable drug price negotiations, Dafny says. While “it's a little too soon to forecast the impact of... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Aug 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

with the largest market caps in their industries, underperform in a majority of cases the average stock in their respective sectors over the next one-, three-, five-, and 10-year periods. In fact, "top dogs" enjoy that status,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

a return to basics as entrepreneurship moves into a more mature stage in Europe. "There's a certain change in the investment pattern," he said. "Many venture caps have gone back to the old principle of doing due diligence,... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

you look at FreeMarkets, we have over 400 people now. We've got 50 people in Europe, 325 people in Pittsburgh, and about 25 people strewn across America and the rest of the world. And today's market cap is over $6 billion. We finished the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

and expanded the Regulation A "mini-public offering" cap from $5 million to $50 million. On the debt side, over the past few years programs at the SBA and other loan guarantee agencies, including the US Department of Agriculture, have... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • 01 Aug 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

tax. This has effectively capped salaries, but invites unlimited compensation in other forms. Several high-performing companies such as Costco Wholesale and Whole Foods Markets limit CEO pay to some multiple of the average salary paid to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

of 2,414 of those were randomly offered surprise expansions, while another 755 firms were not, serving as a control group. Companies that were offered increases were notified via phone or text. The increases did not affect borrowing costs, due to an interest rate View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

Sony and Sega and Nintendo have a combined market cap that's 10X of SGI's. "To me, that's a classic example of drinking your own bath water and not realizing it. SGI had the technology; they were 10 years ahead of everybody. But that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

when they radically restructured their collective bargaining agreement (CBA). The new CBA instituted a uniform cap (as well as a floor) on team payrolls. It also set maximums and minimums for individual contracts and declared many more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

percent. For much of the past decade, H-1B visas have run out within a single week (see Figure 4). Despite even the COVID-19 pandemic, the government received 275,000 applications in March of this year for the 85,000 slots in fiscal year 2021. Figure 4: Months to reach... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

care system, and the controls in the legislation are either worrisome (the Independent Payment Advisory Board, for example, allows a handful of people rather than the American public to cap health care expenses) or unrealistic, relying on... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

income varies according to how well they perform. In finance, performance is measured in money. Make more money, get more money. The findings indicate that if Europe wants its most talented bankers to stay and make money, it may be economically unwise to regulate their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

the 1990s. In order to attract investors, the founders of companies organized before 1910 often included in the statutes stronger protections for small shareholders than what was mandated by law. The most important of these protections were maximum vote provisions that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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