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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

commit to providing EV reports. Moreover, I document that EV reporting is more widespread in countries with more hostile takeovers, managers that do not avoid volatile income measures, regulators that are less likely to intervene in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the presence of additional informed investors in bad times, but each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

create value for shareholders and society alike. That worked in many cases. But some executives who were loaded up with stock options succumbed to the temptation to “game” a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by inadequate View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

appropriate role of business in government? (2) When it comes to political contributions, should corporations have the same rights and responsibilities as individuals? The note also describes the various practical choices businesses face on political engagement,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
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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
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing on attributes of the buyers seeking this information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

interests behind their investments. Many SWFs also lacked disclosure or transparency regarding their activities or investment goals. Countries such as the United States felt that some kind of international View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 26

which buyers can screen suppliers based on their participation in voluntary programs requiring public commitments and public reporting. In particular, we theorize that stakeholder scrutiny can effectively deter companies with misrepresentative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/a-better-way-to-tax-us-businesses/ar/1 How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure Authors:Anil Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell, and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

and geographies are communicating to their stakeholders their initiatives and performance within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) domains. Disclosure of non-financial reports has generated heated debates about whether such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Regulation: What are the hurdles? Mills: In the book, I have two chapters on regulation. Often people find regulation boring, but we are at a critical juncture. Decisions we make over the next several years will influence large parts of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

systems. We then develop a simple model of how these markets enable entry by small or flexible suppliers and the resulting impact on existing firms. Finally, we consider the regulation of peer-to-peer markets and the economic arguments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a rising reliance on foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-023.pdf Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies (revised) Authors:Erin M. Reid and Michael... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? By: Sadun, Raffaella Abstract—Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and country-level factors that limit firms' use of selective disclosure by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel