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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
standardization, and regulation. She was careful to clarify the regulation phase. "What I'm talking about are the basic, underlying rules, which are primarily rules of property rights," said Spar. She thinks View Details
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immigration policy to ease labor shortages. Finance and Investing Finance insights on inflation, crypto trends, NFT potential, private equity, strategies for shifting markets, and more. Regulation and Compliance Global insights on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Showtime
in business. Later, Dan Smith (MBA ’76), president and CEO of Sycamore Networks, and Steve Pagliuca (MBA ’82), managing director of Bain Capital, discussed their views on how government regulations put U.S. businesses at a disadvantage in... 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 Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
settlement, all while requiring less computational power and using far less energy than many current blockchains. Dyer says they have also tested the first public stablecoin (a cryptocurrency that has its value pegged to a commodity or currency or its supply View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- Career Coach
Jing Lin Lee
clear recruiting roadmap from personal branding, networking, resume building, to preparing for interviews and negotiating / deciding between offers. Jing Lin’s industry experience spans across management consulting, tech, and financial services. She is experienced in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount banks can borrow for... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Treasury has proposed that systemic risks be monitored by a newly formed Financial Services Oversight Council, with the Fed becoming the primary regulator of all institutions posing such risks. I disagree with making the Fed the primary... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
collapse rocks Washington and Wall Street. More Turbulence Likely Ahead After Bank Collapses Former US Treasury secretary and Harvard professor Larry Summers says regulators have significant tools at their disposal, need to be vigilant of... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. Pharmaceutical companies have long opposed efforts to regulate drug prices, arguing that prices reflect the companies’ massive research investments. But Germany’s approach shows... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
and expanded the Regulation A "mini-public offering" cap from $5 million to $50 million. On the debt side, over the past few years programs at the SBA and other loan guarantee agencies, including the US Department of Agriculture, have... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
business model innovation has stalled in the last three decades. Regulations and reimbursement systems currently trap in high-cost venues much care that could be provided in lower-cost, more convenient business models. Other disruptions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
ensure adequate liquidity. Recall that after New Deal financial regulation was put in place in the 1930s, the country didn’t suffer another major crisis until deregulation commenced nearly fifty years later — by far the longest stretch of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
have been largely hoping to weather the storm and conduct business as usual as best as they can in the meantime. This has created an adversarial relationship between US businesses and the US government. Legislators and regulators view... View Details