Corporate governance and ethics
by Mercedes B. Suleik, for Manila Bulletin, November 18, 2009. “In the next century, a company will stand or fall on its values,” Robert Hass, CEO of Levi Strauss was quoted to have said. I have...
View ArticleAn Action Plan for Economic Recovery
by Roger Thompson, for the Alumni Bulletin, at Harvard Business School, December 2009. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert...
View ArticleDerivatives’ Bankruptcy Priorities
by Mark Roe, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, December 16, 2009. A lot is happening in the financial regulatory overhaul bill that moved swiftly from committee through the US...
View ArticleRisk Management and the Board of Directors
by Martin Lipton, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, December 17, 2009. Balancing risk and reward has never been more challenging than it is today. Companies face risks that are...
View ArticleThe Global Financial Crisis
by Andrew Tuch, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, December 24, 2009. The Global Financial Crisis, recently published by Foundation Press, describes the basic causes of the...
View ArticleAdditional Views on What TARP Has Achieved
by Damon Silvers, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, January 10, 2010. This separate view does not reflect a disagreement with the Panel report in any respect. Rather I wish to say...
View ArticleThe Great Sphinx and the Mystery of the Federal Reserve
by J. Richard Finlay, for Finaly on Governance, January 11, 2010. There is a legend that the Great Sphinx once promised a young prince in a dream that he would gain a kingdom if he would clear away the...
View ArticleIs the Senate Buying Another TARP in Ben Bernanke?
by J. Richard Finlay, for Finaly on Governance, January 26, 2010. After some slightly encouraging rumblings in the contrary direction, it appears that the Senate is poised to confirm Ben Bernanke to a...
View ArticleImplications of the “Volcker Rules” for Financial Stability
by Hal Scott, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, Febraury 5, 2010. Let me preface my testimony by stressing the urgent need for broad regulatory reform in light of the financial...
View ArticleFederal Intervention in Executive Pay
by Joseph E. Bachelder, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, March 31, 2010. For approximately 75 years (at least), the federal government has intervened in executive pay—in both...
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