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Conflict-of-Interest Rules Are Holding Back Medical Breakthroughs

Harvard Business Review

Legitimate concerns over conflict of interest that have resulted in overly extreme preventative policies are a central cause. It is time for all parties to revisit those policies and replace them with rules that recognize both true conflicts and true confluences of interest. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Inside Job – Unveiling Economists’ Ties to the Financial Sector

Strategy Driven

PBS NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman talks to Charles Ferguson, director of Academy Award winning documentary, Inside Job , a film that raises red flags about the world of finance. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provided funding for this project.

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

The other smoking gun is that Segarra pushed for a tough Fed line on Goldman’s lack of a substantive conflict of interest policy, and was rebuffed by her boss. That’s because, for the past two decades or so, not having a substantive conflict of interest policy has been Goldman’s business model.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

The size and influence of U.S. But it does create more opportunities for conflict of interest between banks, including investment banks, and their customers.” ” On allocating talent between finance and the rest of the economy: “We have had a world in which there’s been a distortion.