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educational and research purposes for which it was designed and prohibits the use of its network to violate the law, including the U.S. Copyright Act. Drone Policy HBS community members have requested information on using UAS or drones on campus. The FAA maintains... View Details

07 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

After a rough 2022, the $1.2 trillion global cryptocurrency market is still going strong, though its value is down by more than half from its 2021 peak of $3 trillion. Last year saw the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and an uptick in scrutiny and enforcement... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

critics warn that buybacks starve firms of capital necessary for securing their long-term prospects, impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. These concerns have led to several proposals for View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

expectations, Windsurf faced three key strategic questions. First: Who should Windsurf serve? Should it continue to serve highly regulated enterprises demanding on-premise deployments, or shift focus entirely toward a broader base of... View Details

21 Jul 2021
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What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Mar 2023
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What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

single day, leaving the bank with a $1 billion negative balance, according to a regulatory filing by the company. While financial regulators have announced that the US will guarantee all deposits at SVB, its collapse has spooked customers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

28 Nov 2023
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Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

and others do not, or for why some crony relationships facilitate growth and others create crisis or stagnation. What strategies do authoritarian political elites adopt to manage the business class? What kinds of strategies succeed, for example by View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

their increased tendency to behave fairly. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/shaw et al.pdf Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Georgetown... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2018
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If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

the issue because the US Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2017 adopted a rule stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rule mandates that companies disclose the ratio of the CEO’s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

used in buildings and yet they remain on the rise globally with little regulation to control them. In the United States, for example, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations currently cover only... View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Should it continue to serve highly regulated enterprises demanding on-premise deployments, or shift focus entirely toward a broader base of cloud-first enterprises, including both technical and non-technical users adopting its new... View Details

22 Aug 2005
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Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

1970s, but its governments systematically discouraged wholly owned FDI [foreign direct investment], and restricted it to a low level. During the 1940s and early 1950s only the U.S. dollar was available as a major convertible currency. Elsewhere exchange controls View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

measure investor sentiment or risk neglect and understand its influence on security prices? Do credit market conditions reveal bubbles? How are credit market bubbles different from equity market bubbles? View Details

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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits 1929: The Great Crash Unique historical materials in Harvard University collections throw light on the role of the regional exchanges in the stock market crash of 1929, and the regulation of the View Details

19 Apr 2010
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The History of Beauty

the 19th century and water began to be piped into people's houses, a number of brilliant entrepreneurs built a demand for soap as a branded product by linking its use to godliness, securing celebrity endorsement, and later suggesting that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Amir Kermani & Sanket Korgaonkar FEB 2019 How does financial deregulation affect the use of complex loans features? How do regulated intermediaries react to the deregulation of other lenders? The authors exploit the preemption of national... View Details

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

There is thus no justification for the enormous growth of the hedge funds. It follows that the hedge fund mania is simply the latest of the securities industry's new, new things" for investors—another sales gimmick. View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Susanna Gallani : Received the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Jonas Heese : Winner of the 2021 FESE De La Vega Best Paper Award for “Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?” Robert S. Kaplan : Awarded a Doctor... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) to regulate the securities industry. Addressing the SEC in November 1936, Robert Lehman noted, any individual “will, through the very fact of control of a substantial... View Details

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