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Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence form a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018
U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
In the 1990s, when Harvard Business School Professor Lynn S. Paine was researching and writing about examples of corporate misconduct, she hoped more businesses would take decisive action to root out fraud and other unethical behavior.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
regulatory barriers to value-based health care, including fraud and abuse laws such as the Stark law limiting physician referrals, anti-trust laws, data privacy laws limiting information and data sharing, restrictive state licensing... View Details
- 22 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan
Keywords: by Douglas J. Skinner & Suraj Srinivasan
- 20 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
contains a cautionary tale, for by their very nature, stories can be unrepresentative of larger trends. Prime examples of this pitfall include climate change denial, anti-vaccine information, or the way Ronald Reagan used a story about a so-called “welfare queen” to... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- February 2016
- Case
Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York
By: David Moss and Colin Donovan
After a long period of solid Democratic control, Whigs secured a majority of seats in the New York State Assembly in 1837, the same year that a major financial panic had crippled the banking system and shaken public confidence in the state's governance. The next year,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing
- 07 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO
Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Julie Wulf
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Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
statements and accounting reports. Familiarity with how modern accounting and control theory is used in evaluating economic conditions and making organizational decisions. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy... View Details
- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important information to... View Details
Keywords: by April White
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Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
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Reforming Social Science
By: Max H. Bazerman
Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
to the financial institution in penalties, fines, and loss of trust began to mount. Months before the fraud was disclosed, Tim Sloan, then president and COO (and now CEO), was quoted as saying: “People are our competitive advantage, so we... View Details
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
(R-NV) resigned after covering up an extramarital affair with monetary payoffs. Lee B. Farkas, former chairman of giant mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in April was found guilty for his role in one of the largest bank fraud... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
scheme, I think that’s giving him too much credit as an individual financier, or even as a sinister deviant. He couldn’t have planned such a long-running and extraordinarily devastating fraud in advance even if he tried.” A timeline of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and Jack Flanagan) as well as View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable
“easy to document” violations compared to more complicated financial misconduct, Heese says. “An accounting fraud or a tax fraud, which we would classify as a financial violation, is maybe more difficult for citizens on social media to... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
of the University of Texas-Austin and Amit Seru of Stanford Graduate School of Business. A spate of alleged fraud by Wells Fargo has highlighted a dirty little secret in the financial industry: Misconduct by financial advisors is... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
by understanding the role of hormone levels. ©iStock.com/VIPDesignUSA For eons, academics have studied the forces behind unethical acts, disturbed and intrigued by scary real-world data on corporate corruption. The Association of Certified View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
and Exchange Commission. The SEC has been slow to issue the regulatory clarification requested by crypto companies, but has charged more than a dozen influencers with violating US securities law and recently warned investors about volatility and View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz