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  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

leaders remain oblivious to an emerging threat or problem—a lack of attention that can plague even the most skilled executives. After European Commission regulators refused to approve General Electric's $42 billion acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

of time the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has spent trying to write the regulations around it. The SEC wants to encourage individuals to make investment decisions, but they don’t want to open the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

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
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

what some perceive to be a narrowing between the rewards and risks of such ventures? Whether because of reduced market expectations or increased transactional costs resulting from deteriorating international relations, tighter regulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

regulation has aimed to increase competition among raters ever since the Enron debacle. "As researchers we feared that increased competition may have detrimental effects in this setting." In our e-mail Q&A, Becker discusses... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 02 May 2008
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

the World Trade Organization. C. J. Cullinane comments, "We need ... global guidelines and regulations as well as transparency." Jacoline Loewen, concurs, saying that "there may not be global rules for State Capitalism yet,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 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
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

that search engine advertisements tend to be less safe than the corresponding organic listings. Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:IEEE Security and Privacy 8, no. 4 (July-August 2010)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 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
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 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
  • 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
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

Fetter: Serious questions about employment-based insurance People are appreciating our frontline health care workers more and recognizing the critical role hospitals play in our health care system. I hope this will lead to investments in a more View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

Decision Processes Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making By: Gino, Francesca, and J.J. Lee Abstract—This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting
  • 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
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