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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
areas where they resided. Fourth, a sizeable proportion of investors were stockholders in more than one bank. Protecting Outside Investors in a Laissez-faire Legal Environment:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
a potential for improvement. The statistics are disheartening no matter how an entrepreneur defines failure. If failure means liquidating all assets, with investors losing most or all the money they put into the company, then the failure... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
to strategically delay providing the service. Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract— An extensive literature on venture capital has studied asymmetric information and agency problems between View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al., 1998, 1999 and passim). This paper examines the persistence of the effects of legal origins by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
sellers of CDS protection are an important determinant of CDS spread movements. I first establish that markets are dominated by a handful of net protection sellers, with five sellers accounting for nearly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
many managers overestimate the attractiveness of using IP to exert market power. Rather, the value of the various means to protect and benefit from IP depends on firm strategy, the competitive landscape, and the rapidly changing contours... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
sales. Whatever choices are made must be articulated to investors and employees. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-089 The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A) No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
years. In this period, Norway was at the forefront with regard to implementing legislation regulating cartels, yet the legislation was not an antitrust legislation in the modern sense. It was aimed not only at protecting consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
restructuring process be managed and the many barriers to restructuring overcome so that as much value is created as possible? 3. Marketing. How should the restructuring be explained and portrayed to investors so that value created inside... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
particular area. Her findings, which she presented at a prominent investor conference, captured the imaginations of industry titans and academics. Computer scientists long assumed that AI systems would become more accurate and objective... View Details
- 18 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
jurists, including Louis Brandeis and institutional economist E.R.A. Seligman, supported RPM as a protection to independent proprietors. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
the issue because the US Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2017 adopted a rule stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rule mandates that companies disclose the ratio of the CEO’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
While gains were focused at the executive and investor levels, these cuts fostered a transactional relationship between businesses and their workers. So, it should be a shock to no one that in recent years, the power dynamic has switched... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies, faster turnover among leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
When Facebook failed to protect the privacy of 87 million people whose data was harvested without their consent in 2015, the company not only circumvented data privacy regulations, it breached the public’s trust. And by failing to... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
been abandoned by its owners and had come under the control of CW Capital, the special servicer for the vast amount of debt that was in default. Any investment in a distressed property could be very risky and might require the company to seek View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details