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- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
on how it is implemented—what regulations the SEC develops and how it actually is done—we easily could see a law implemented in a way that will exclude small companies from the public capital markets. Sarbanes-Oxley was drafted with Tyco...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
firm pay, we exploit exogenous increases in access to pay information using the SEC 1992 Proxy Disclosure Rule that differentially affected firms. Based on differences-in-differences models, we find increased PRS and decreased...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
2003 and 2004—the first case where the SEC has allowed an accounting matter to be subject to an advisory vote at an annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
former chairman Alan Greenspan for holding interest rates too low for too long, which inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
For his part, Baker believes multinationals are engaged in increasingly risky behavior. He notes that two major European multinationals with SEC requirements in the United States were recently fined for corruption activity that had no...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
financial crisis. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311044-PDF-ENG Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (B) Clayton S. Rose and David LaneHarvard Business School Supplement 311-070 This (B) case provides the 2009...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on October 4, 2010, when the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
reactions at appointment and loss of fewer subsequent directorships. Nondisclosure of directorships is significantly reduced following changes to SEC rules, with the greatest change being for adverse-event directorships. These findings...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
business-to-business long-distance networking company within AT&T. She is a real pro. And thank goodness we have her, because I don't know what we'd do without her, with Wall Street and everything from SEC filings to analyst...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
it's something new; financial institutions are worried about losing money; the federal government is concerned about compliance problems associated with designing a new system to serve so many people; the lawyers are worried about SEC...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
interesting and very dynamic.Fuller: You’ve written about the new SEC Human Capital Disclosure rule, which is quite a broad—I wouldn’t say it’s unspecific, but it really gives management quite a lot of latitude to discuss their human...
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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
to SEC concerns over pooling misuse. I also find evidence consistent with lobbying support for SFAS 142 increasing in firms' discretion under the standard. Agency theory predicts such unverifiable discretion can be used opportunistically....
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Martha Lagace
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Psychology and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Thomas earned a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Bucknell University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. She is also a graduate of the HERS Management Institute...
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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Case 312-106 When MF Global failed in October 2011, it was discovered that $1.6 billion of segregated customer assets was missing. Safeguarding these assets was the firm's responsibility, and in the words of one SEC official, its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that’s actually way more expensive than having employees, although it looks way cheaper in terms of financial accounting. There are two or three things they’re asking that the SEC make companies report that would change a lot of this....
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