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- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to Bangalore, entrepreneurs and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Abstract A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front payment before people receive any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to attract investors in large numbers. By availing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
argues that legal origin determines both the extent of investor protections and level of financial market development (La Porta, Lopez de Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny, 1997, 1998, 2000). I test three... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
be seen. Q: After World War I, global firms turned much focus on protecting themselves from political risk. Given that political risk remains in many countries as strong today, what have we learned about companies that have done this... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
now exist to protect employees from blatant forms of discrimination in hiring and promotion, but workplace discrimination persists in latent forms. These “second-generation” forms of bias arise in workplace structures, practices, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
just watch the news, react, and randomly pile up sandbags and pump basements, over and over. They need to think about which assets to protect and which people to relocate. Finally, one area’s dislocation can be opportunity for another.... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
smart cities will perform better environmentally, financially, and socially than has been the case in most of the world's cities to date. A pretty smart way, we'd say, of protecting our environment. Benjamin G. Edelman, Assistant... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Corporate Governance." ProfessorAlexander Dyck Dyck: "What I think is most interesting are… countries that have weak legal protections that nonetheless pursue share-issue privatizations. And the question is: Is that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
years the business pages of the world press were reporting an exploding number of serious disputes between foreign investors and governments. As the expected bonanzas proved elusive and the protections... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
making certain types of public risk management less necessary. How this pans out is something that I plan to pay close attention to in the coming years. Q: Your book seems particularly timely given all the recent debate as to the government's role in View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the federal government’s $2 trillion economic relief package, small businesses can apply for low-interest loans, all or most of which will be forgiven, based on amounts spent on wages, rent, and... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
returns are more positive for acquisitions in which both the target and the acquirer are financed by the same venture capital firm. Similarly, we find that having a common investor increases both the likelihood that a transaction will be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
option that is often more convenient than a traditional taxicab service—not to mention less expensive. With these benefits, consumers and investors are also tempted to give these companies a pass for accusations that they cut corners on... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
residence, corporate control, and corporate equities. These markets provide opportunities for entrepreneurs, managers, and investors to circumvent a strong fences policy. The paper provides simple descriptive evidence of the growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne