Price Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

the process, and I can’t wait to see the results. Barbara Littlefield (MBA 1988) Chairwoman and Lead Operating Officer, Resilient Infrastructure Group Collaborate Globally with Governments BIO “We all need to work to put together common to all, clear, fair, and... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

risk, price for it. In many cases, inability to buy insurance can be an absolute deal breaker to launching one of these businesses. You can always start by overcharging. What types of regulations do you... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Selling Digital Privacy

If regulation won’t stop privacy invasion, what will? HBS professor John Deighton has an answer that involves convincing companies to pay us consumers to use our private information. Instead of relying on View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims

THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2007
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Gore All Business at HBS

balance sheets. If price tags are the only tool used to measure value, said Gore, “then things that don’t have price tags appear to have no value.” In his talk, sponsored by the School’s Leadership and... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

participants will end up with the right level of risk taking, so regulation is important. There are also periods of crisis, like the one we just experienced, when financial markets generally break down. And that’s when the government can... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

significant investment in the area. At Kaiser Permanente, for instance, 25 percent of annual capital spending is invested in IT, and in the private sector, 102 telemedicine companies have received venture funding since 2011. In the first eight months of 2017 alone, 18... View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace. Will anonymity be relinquished... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Dec 2012
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Shareholders' Value?

Regulation FD, which impairs the free flow of information between companies and their owners. Discipline. Selling can be said to discipline managers by driving the stock price down, but it's hard for one... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall

beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

opinion and climate policies, and the relative cost of various energy sources. “There is always lively classroom discussion about whether industries that pollute are paying a high enough price for their trans- gressions and whether... View Details

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What the U.S. can learn from Germany on drug prices

Leemore Dafny on Hospital Prices, Markets, and Antitrust Regulations

The High Price of Safer Banks

Law Firms Are Building A.I. Expertise as Regulation Looms

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

Online pricing algorithms are gaming the system, and could mean you pay more

Not all money market funds are equal

Disclose the fair value of complex securities

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge