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- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
or private equity funds and from engaging in proprietary trading. The ban has been dubbed the Volcker Rule, in recognition of the former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, who has championed the proposal. The administration says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
spending that cash, the economy could benefit from a significant stimulus that, unlike stimulus measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
Professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that increased federal spending causes local companies to lose sales and cut back on research, payroll, and other expenses. Indeed, reports HBS... View Details
- 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 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
coursework, mentoring, coaching, and career and job opportunities, delivered on a social platform. HBS, for its part, through the federal government’s Yellow Ribbon Grant program, is annually providing $10,000 each to dozens of HBS... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as... 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 View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on... View Details
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
waiting period of three business days for most handgun sales. If enacted, their research suggests, the federal waiting period would reduce gun homicides and could save more than 900 lives a year; additional lives are expected to be saved... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
elections, a fact that has helped Moret attract the talent necessary to address the range of issues, from the over-reliance on federal government jobs in the metropolitan DC area to the need for new industry... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
really my job to think about the health of society or the planet. My job is to put my head down and run a profitable business.” Now we’re at a moment where many of us look around at the federal government... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Clean Air Act was one of the first and most influential federal environmental laws—and many in the business community saw benefits from a national strategy to combat pollution. Prof. Michael Toffel Prof. Michael Toffel Now, as the world... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
shadow financial system. Create a new system for federal and state regulation of mortgages and other consumer credit products. Create executive pay structures that discourage excessive risk taking. Reform the credit rating system. Make... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
have been researching the root causes and consequences of the crisis in the intervening decade, helping to shape our understanding of the economic and financial forces that brought us to the brink. MORE Former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson (MBA 1970) and Tim... 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 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
signal to people that there will be demand in the future and things are going to get better. The way to send that signal, in his view, was through deficit spending. If the government borrowed heavily and spent the money, that would send a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
Security, Department of Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other agencies, describe how America’s electric infrastructure was critically unprepared for any number of natural and man-made threats, including solar storms,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
Role Fred Lazarus delivered the following remarks to the policy board of Americans for the Arts in Washington, D.C., in March 1998. The federal government has provided support for the arts in this country in... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion... View Details