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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
participation by everyday folk in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
remember thinking, oh, that must just be my dad; he must be the only person who cares about that." The Dodd-frank Requirement Fast-forward to 2010, when the US Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. A response to the Great... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
sets. To demonstrate the sets, he secured informal permission from his employer to string an electrical wire from a local hilltop to serve as an antenna for the reception of signals from Philadelphia stations. When customers who purchased... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information from an SEC form The researchers also collected information from the Security and Exchange Commission’s Schedule 13D forms for the same time period. And here’s where the potentially shady broker activity starts to become... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
people, any more than telephones or electricity are options. Because the infrastructure is that essential, that's why politics will be involved." The role of regulation in this environment, she said, is to be both flexible and creative:... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract— Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
corporate confessions presents something of a behavioral paradox. Tasked with monitoring the legality of its own operations, why would firms that identify violations turn themselves in to regulators rather than quietly fix the problem?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
when the costs of financing a reorganization are greater than financing costs to a potential acquirer. Consistent with a senior creditor liquidation bias, the greater use of secured debt leads to more sales in bankruptcy-but, this result... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Toronto. "But more recent research shows how culture endures in spite of globalization. Networks and local regulations also significantly influence how companies react to their local environments." “For philanthropic leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
We showed it to important business leaders—some HBS alumni, some not—from around the world and asked them for their views on potential problem areas and what role HBS might play in addressing them. The fact is that in many parts of the world, firms are not privately... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
century when various entrepreneurs competed for dominance. During this time, success was dependent on securing U.S. airmail contracts as well as on reliable and safe aircraft. Access to government officials, sources of capital, and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
management policy, which aimed at assuring a more secure environment for business. By the early twentieth century, however, the focus had shifted, from business to labor. As a result of industrialization, a great many workers had moved... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage, in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to level the investment playing field.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
and a regulation of the whole process, in the main by the market." He later added a fifth essential, that the society not "breed (producing population growth) up to the limits of its subsistence." (The words in parentheses... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
says. “Once the bank balance sheet is handicapped, all kinds of other consequences come out. For one, for example, banks are less likely to lend.” Not all countries and sectors relied as heavily on land and buildings to secure debt. Using... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Psychology and Financial Fragility By: Gennaioli, Nicola, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman