Word: conflict-of-interest
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...current recommendations on S&P 500 stocks, only 1% are "sells," according to Zacks Investment Research. "Analysts are the most relentlessly optimistic people in the world," says NASAA executive director Marc Beauchamp. "They make Pollyanna seem like Hamlet." Some regulators are calling for industry guidelines to expand analysts' conflict-of-interest disclosures...
...former legal advisor, for seeking personal gain from their positions in a consulting project helping Russia in the transition from Communism to a market economy. The suit alleges that Schleifer and Hay, along with their wives, both financial professionals operating in the Russian capital market, profited from conflict-of-interest investments. They are also charged with using U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds for their own private operations. More importantly, the suit implicates Harvard University, alleging that it failed to supervise and report known wrongdoings. Schleifer and Hay were working through the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), which...
...suit claims that while providing economic and legal advice for the development of Russian capital markets, the individual defendants violated conflict-of-interest rules prohibiting them from investing in the Russian economy. The suit claims they even diverted U.S. government resources for their...
...fact, the wealth of sponsorship of research at Harvard may even help professors in their teaching, rather than causing a conflict-of-interest in the classroom...
Even at HMS, Howley says, as long as professors are open with the students they teach about their outside financial interests, it is unlikely that a conflict-of-interest would arise in the classroom...