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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
crowdfunded real estate faces resistance from industry leaders, especially in regards to the concern of fraud, and SEC regulations on crowdfunding remain undetermined at the time of the case. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
hurting small-business lending. Banks have been raising their capital reserves to comply with new standards initiated by risk-averse bank examiners and other regulators post-crisis. They are also hoarding deposits, which undermines their... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
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
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
argue that this compensation information should be treated as a trade secret. Q: How can regulated public disclosure of performance measures generate inefficiencies in firms' employment contracts? A: An inefficiency can occur when the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials to fund preventive measures against heart... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
created in the country, and the anti-European movements in the rest of Europe fueled by the campaign, have certainly wounded the already fragile European Union project. Europe is all too often associated with an uber-bureaucratic, business-stifling, and burdensome... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
and mapping this difference could help easily communicate this to a variety of stakeholders. A number of countries already require a subset of their regulated community to report information on their own environmental performance.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
regulated industry containing a number of distinct verticals, from capital markets to asset management and lending. Few cities on earth can boast a talent pool with quite as much relevant domain expertise as New York, which is exactly why... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
same behaviors described as “random behaviors.” Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51401 Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System By: Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2480097 Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
for New Economic Thinking (INET) The financial economics of sustainability and climate change As business strives to reduce carbon emissions and transition to clean energy, Gasparini plans to study the financial economics of climate change, focusing on the role of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
utilities industries is privatized, water in particular. And I chair the organization that regulates water monopolies. They’re big companies. Many of them privately owned now by pension funds, infrastructure funds. And our job is to hold... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
low and moderate income non-savers—and discusses the laws and regulations in the United States that largely prohibit their issuance. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16433 Cases & Course MaterialsHang Lung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
institution, indicating that the brokers might know that a leak might negatively affect investors. Where are the regulators? If brokers are engaging in illicit activity, why haven’t regulators noticed? “For the same reason that many... 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
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
lot of the concepts we learned in TOM (RC class Technology and Operations Management) about bottlenecks to ensure that our clients were quickly attended to.” Adding to the challenge of managing their volunteer team was the evolving landscape of new rules and View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library
mortgage-backed securities) from regulation by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Firms like Lehman Brothers began to invest heavily in derivatives in the form of subprime mortgages that yielded unprecedented profits. In the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
sustainability and CSR in addressing customer needs and building trust with the communities we serve. However, we have to make sure that our CSR programs are strategic to our business objectives, especially since we are operating in a highly View Details