Disclosure And Access - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

We are focused on building, in some ways, universities that are the exact opposite of my great alma mater. We want to invest in good institutions and help make them great by making them accessible View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

2017
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Refugees Misdirected: How Information, Misinformation and Rumors Shape Refugees’ Access to Fundamental Rights

By: Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli and Katerina Linos

The global refugee regime represents one of the few generous commitments governments offer to outsiders. Indeed, few persons fleeing armed conflict actually claim international protection upon first arriving in Europe, even though the benefits of legal protection are... View Details

Keywords: Refugees; Knowledge Dissemination; Trust; Risk and Uncertainty; Rights; Europe

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2011
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How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC's Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses or Summary Prospectuses. We find no... View Details

Keywords: Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics

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Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France

By: Gunnar Trumbull

Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details

Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States

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6 Mar 2009 - 7 Mar 2009
Conference Presentation

Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies

By: Michael W. Toffel

Keywords: Strategy; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure

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Harvard Business Review: Executive Education Access

faculty and staff) can access is found here. Make sure you are logged into Baker Library on the upper right hand side on the Baker Library home page. Go to Business Source Complete (if when... View Details

07 Dec 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting company that targets... View Details

14 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

registrants, and conversations are underway as to how to maintain the increased access to the HBS community via virtual programming as the opportunity to return to more in-person campus experiences presents... View Details

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Technological Mediation and Commercial Development in the Early Internet Access Market

By: Shane Greenstein

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2000
Chapter

Women and Equity Capital: An Exploration of Factors Affecting Capital Access

By: Candida G. Brush, Patricia G. Greene, Myra M. Hart, Nancy M. Carter and Elizabeth Gatewood

Keywords: Gender; Capital; Equity

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Building and Developing the Virtual World: Commercializing Services for Internet Access

By: Shane Greenstein

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October 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Case

SEC vs. AT&T: The Controversy over Phone Call Disclosures

By: Yuan Zou and Tim Gray

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June 2023
Teaching Note

Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A) and (B)

By: Jan W. Rivkin

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 722-449 and 722-451. As this case opens, it is the spring of 2020 in Chattanooga. COVID-19 has hit, public schools have closed their buildings, remote learning has begun, and more than 28,000 schoolkids lack the high-quality Internet... View Details

Keywords: K-12 Education; Pandemic; COVID-19; Accessibility; Education; Urban Development; Wealth and Poverty; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Education Industry; Tennessee

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16 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules

In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details