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- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
Here are a few ways MBAs can support the movement for Black lives: Donate to and fundraise for racial justice nonprofits. Support local Black-led organizing groups and/or invest in national organizations like Movement for Black Lives, a...
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- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
percent French.” “We thought that perhaps a way to fix this [distrust] is to have politicians speak directly to voters” Hypothesizing that this lack of personal investment in the country depressed their tendency to vote on issues, the...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
most affected by proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership, lost value on that day. The value drop was 55 basis points for a 10 percentage point change in activist institution ownership. These results suggest that financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
as important as rewarding investors is using the power of business to build a better society. Roundtable members committed to building up local communities, investing more in employees, fostering diversity and inclusion, embracing...
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- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
the recent launch of his new, $6 billion closed-end vehicle, Pershing Square Holdings, as well as the firm's lengthening investment horizon. Although always activist in nature, Ackman and his fund had in...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
students are assigned roles as managers of large cement manufacturers (simply designated White, Brown, Black, or Green Cement). A fifth student, who represents an environmental activist organization, is assigned the goal of purchasing as...
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- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Overwhelming evidence and experience shows, however, that most companies are unable to transfer employee learning into changes in individual and organization behavior or improved financial performance. Put simply, companies are not getting the return they expect on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
General Motors was moving toward its vision of zero emissions and zero accidents by investing in electrified, shared, and autonomous vehicles. And while Wells Fargo was creating fraudulent accounts, Bank of America Merrill Lynch became a...
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by George Serafeim
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
during the 1960s by Robert B. McKersie (MBA 1988) (Southern Illinois University Press) The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, this book follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie's...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
to death.” Then in October 2000 came euphoria: Milosevic had fallen. Old friends in Belgrade, anti-Milosevic activists familiar with Djelic's talents and experience, pleaded for him to return and help rebuild. “How could I stay and lead...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
corporations and Wall Street as part of the cause of social injustice. But I also understood that they would need to be a big part of the solution, as indeed they have been.” America, who teaches courses on investing in Africa and on...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
analyzing his own investment home runs and errors with his trademark wit and insight. The author of nine books on personal investing and business, a columnist and regular contributor over the years to...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture returns that are twice as large as their normal trading performance. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
economic thought and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49787 Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
University endowment’s investment choices and of venture-capital-backed IPO run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We find evidence of two alternative paths to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
the empirical quest to link a firm's social investments to its financial returns has preoccupied researchers. Our goal in this paper is to reorient debate and research about social initiatives by business. We try to stimulate a fresh...
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by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh