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- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
(in the absence of action) that do not penalize individuals, limiting choices to those that are more comprehensible, taxing detrimental choices, and providing full disclosure to better inform...
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
corporate disclosures overseen by the SEC. The benefits of national comparisons are compelling and will unleash a tidal wave of improvements in quality and efficiency. An obvious—and relatively uncontroversial—starting point would be to...
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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
directors' votes on key corporate resolutions in proxy statements. As Louis Brandeis said in his 1914 treatise Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use It, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
But the View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. However, very little is known about the optimal contract structure of these loans, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
between a hospital's focus on both conformance and experiential dimensions of quality and their impact on financial and clinical outcomes. Imperfect Information, Patent Publication, and the Market for Ideas Hong Luo and a colleague study the effects of an important...
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by Staff
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while...
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Identifiers Available by Database
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- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
treatment of corporate income appears to make the United States somewhat anomalous by international standards. By itself, this international experience is informative but hardly decisive as the United States may choose quite different...
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by Mihir Desai
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
espoused during his five-year tenure. According to the firm's contract with him, these are "cause" for dismissal if the board chooses to invoke them. The two executives making the information available to the board are the only...
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by Jim Heskett
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
found that the creative environment, and creativity itself, remained depressed four months after the layoffs had been completed. To corroborate this conclusion, Amabile and Conti compared how many invention disclosures had been filed by...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
George Serafeim Abstract—We examine if, and under what conditions, disclosure of sustainability information identified as investor relevant by market-driven innovations in accounting standard setting is...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
ridiculed Babson's forecasting methods, which were informed by his belief, based on his reading of Isaac Newton, that economic "actions and reactions" (or depressions and expansions) would always be equal. But Babson was able to...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
stock options succumbed to the temptation to "game" a financial-markets inefficiency, inefficiencies caused by inadequate disclosure rules. Those executives essentially misled investors, falsified information, and pretended to...
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by Garry Emmons
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that...
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- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
for just other private organizations, but for public entities all over the world. Clearly, the community of interest (and self-interest) extended far beyond Lehman Brothers and the US Government. Now we have the issue of who should control View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
language originally intended to inform an investor, which now protects the offerers. —D. Quinn Mills "While some analysts insist that Quattrone believed in honest research, others say he tried to bully them. `I'll have you out of...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
misconduct disclosures may be higher. Near the top for best ethical practices was USAA Financial Advisors, which serves military families and had only a 3 percent rate of misconduct. More distressing than the rates of financial...
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- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
discovered that this compulsory secrecy program was in place during the war, and after the war it transitioned to a peacetime policy that persists to this day,” Gross says. “Everybody in the system benefits from being able to access View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
effect the information will support and raise current levels." Guy Higgins commented, "Recall that CEO compensation began to balloon only when the CEOs could see each other's comp packages and began thinking, 'I'm better than...
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by Jim Heskett
- Fast Answer
Global Climate Change
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