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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
same behaviors described as “random behaviors.” Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51401 Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System By: Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
measurement and disclosure of important metrics and information. In this chapter, we examine the effect of sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices and valuations. Specifically, we explore the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators. The challenge in designing third-party monitoring regimes is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
PublicationsLords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2010) Abstract Firms in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
intervention. Hence, an understanding of residual market imperfections—those imperfections that persist after market competition and regulation are accounted for—must inform any assessment of the long-term attractiveness of firm... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-049 Securities Exchange Board of India: Developing and Regulating India's Capital Markets No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
system of laws and regulations that provide more latitude to large organizations in their dealings with employees, customers, suppliers, and competitors. In recent years, questions have been raised about whether those laws and View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
regulation looks at diversity at firms is from an HR perspective: How are they promoting and hiring minorities to make sure it’s an equal opportunity workplace?” Koning says. “But we need to do more than improve management and HR... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
changing." It helps to have a dedicated employee—the CSO—steering the ship. "The way to think about the CSO is it's the person who is the change agent," Serafeim says. "It's the person who sees how the future is developing, how social expectations... View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
argue that competition can lead organizations to provide illicit quality that satisfies customer demand but violates laws and regulations and that this outcome is particularly likely when price competition is restricted. Using 28 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices, coupled with regulatory changes made by the government, force Colbun to revise its business strategy and its sourcing mix. New legislation will replace historically View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Regulation? By: Drake, David F., and Robin L. Just Abstract—A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is vital in achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and do respond to environmental View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic underpinnings to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace