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- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
for centuries in India. Additionally, the ecosystem serves a critical role in regulating the area’s hydrological cycle, ensuring a supply of fresh water2. Regulating the environment: Mangrove trees are a... View Details
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Sustainability in Energy Industry
financial regulators This report identifies so many important recommendations to address the systemic risk that the climate crisis presents. Global Energy Review 2020 The impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on global energy demand and CO2... View Details
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
voluminous collection of extraordinarily descriptive letters and diaries, they took care to meticulously preserve the company’s documents and journals—from partnership agreements and export lists to custom regulations and ship designs.... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability and ethics at all levels. Overarching this, Angelides said, is a climate in which “too... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
achievement'" (Dennis Nelson); "the level that does not allow segments of activity to capture regulators or regulations while also ensuring support for the disadvantaged and those in poverty"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
If so, who should that be? The 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
Tobin-seeded research contributed to key elements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, in addition to shaping the Obama administration's approach to evaluating the efficacy of regulations across agencies. How... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke federal View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
going public, except in unusual circumstances. The prospectus is full of language originally intended to inform an investor, but which now protects the offerers. This is a well-known dynamic of regulation, in which those regulated adapt... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 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
- 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
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
regulation is appropriate in a given context rather than whether regulation itself is a moral good or evil.” Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As agencies and... View Details
- 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
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
pondered the impact of fake news on democracy, the potential for government regulation of the internet, and the future of business models that support traditional media such as newspapers. The event was co-sponsored by the Tow Center for... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
Countries, like companies, need development strategies to succeed in a world of growing globalization. Professor Richard H. K. Vietor is an expert on business regulation and the international political economy. Vietor has taught at... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg... View Details