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- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
in which this new media landscape is making demands on us. That has always been the case outside the United States in smaller markets. The biggest source of bias is not that it becomes more left or more right; it’s whether the government... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the "win-win" rhetoric surrounding these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
regulated industry, so anyone who's interested in business and government would be a player. It has a social and ethical component to it. So this is fertile ground to study a lot of other phenomena."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
as head of the provincial conservation office—“the fish and wildlife police, basically,” he says. He was in his early 50s and in his 15th year of government work. His career was in stasis, and by 2002, he didn’t necessarily care if it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- Fast Answer
Biotech, Medical devices, and Pharmaceuticals: regulatory information
Tip: may use the search function to have a jump start. Nexis Uni – IP cases, case law, government document. FDA Regulatory Information portal Emergo -- Web site of regulatory consulting firm provides... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
regulated the way insurers are regulated. Those words, insurance regulation, that's like striking a knife into the heart of an entrepreneur. It means you need a huge finance department to fill out forms, and so they hired a lobbyist just... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
company’s response to the complaint, but the class discussion turned to the motivations of the man who revealed the wrongdoing. Have you ever thought about blowing the whistle? Dey asked her students. Their response: We’ve thought about it, but it is so costly. At a... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
research, and the culture of trusting faculty to study what they think is important, there might not have been a study.” The team acknowledges that some people will oppose any gun policy, regardless of its positive impact. “However, most US citizens favor some View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
from regulators rose by 15 percent. He also found that the nature of many violations was more severe in towns without newspapers. “If you can do whatever you want and no one is looking, you’re more likely or more willing to engage in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
also encourage innovation to solve problems that people haven’t solved before.” Regulations that are too loose can lead to confusion. This was the case in Brazil, where the government chose not to establish... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
going public, except in unusual circumstances. The prospectus is full of language originally intended to inform an investor, but which now protects the offerers. This is a well-known dynamic of regulation, in which those regulated adapt... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
banking system, the government should follow the lead of other countries and create “payment banks” that take little-to-no risk, are highly regulated, and have access to the payment network. Silicon Valley Bank’s Focus on Startups Was a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount banks can borrow for... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
maximize the purchasing power of consumers or if it is to reinforce certain government favoured industries and, indirectly, the people who work and invest in those industries. After more than thirty years when broad international... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
forms of capitalism." Citing examples of Dutch and British investments abroad, Cole Woodson comments, "I find the question to be somewhat delinquent ... to the tune of several centuries." He adds that to the extent that returns from investments of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
for further expansion at the scale needed to significantly displace coal capacity, however, is constrained by tight regulation of private and foreign investment in the industry. Tata Power, and other private and foreign firms are standing... View Details