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- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
created in the country, and the anti-European movements in the rest of Europe fueled by the campaign, have certainly wounded the already fragile European Union project. Europe is all too often associated with an uber-bureaucratic, business-stifling, and burdensome... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
and mapping this difference could help easily communicate this to a variety of stakeholders. A number of countries already require a subset of their regulated community to report information on their own environmental performance.... View Details
- 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
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
crowdfunded real estate faces resistance from industry leaders, especially in regards to the concern of fraud, and SEC regulations on crowdfunding remain undetermined at the time of the case. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
hurting small-business lending. Banks have been raising their capital reserves to comply with new standards initiated by risk-averse bank examiners and other regulators post-crisis. They are also hoarding deposits, which undermines their... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
PublicationsNew Perspectives on Regulation Authors:David Moss and John Cisternino, eds. Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 No abstract is available at this time. Book link:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
argue that this compensation information should be treated as a trade secret. Q: How can regulated public disclosure of performance measures generate inefficiencies in firms' employment contracts? A: An inefficiency can occur when the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
institution, indicating that the brokers might know that a leak might negatively affect investors. Where are the regulators? If brokers are engaging in illicit activity, why haven’t regulators noticed? “For the same reason that many... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
people, any more than telephones or electricity are options. Because the infrastructure is that essential, that's why politics will be involved." The role of regulation in this environment, she said, is to be both flexible and creative:... 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
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-024 Evolving Trends in Global Trade The note, while not intended to be historically comprehensive, explores the regulation of international trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
follow from that." The Root Of All Scandals In 2008, greedy bankers became high-profile value claimers and nearly took the entire world into a depression, Hall says. They were slapped with tighter financial regulations as a result.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
competitive markets—and the importance of realizing when a policy is what creates intense market competition in the first place. "If regulators care about the efficacy of these policies, they should be oversampling their inspections... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
trade systems would help it adapt more easily to new regulations than its competitors. ("This looked like a better bet maybe five years ago when it made this call than it does today," he allowed.) One last possibility, and a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests regulations that limit the issuance of safe securities in good times. Read:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel