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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
corporation that came with the emergence of investor capitalism in the 1970s. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the debate about the sources of America’s economic malaise, and what could be done about it, began to penetrate...
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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
have provided average returns to their investors that are superior to those of conventional portfolios, while exhibiting lower risk. Myth Number 2: ESG is already well integrated into mainstream investment management. Reality: The UNPRI...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
participation, improve representation of marginalized groups, and increase the average level of competence and informedness of the population. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50729 Do CEO Activists...
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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
School Case 716-462 A Note on Activist Investors and the Tech Sector This short note provides background and data on the growing role of corporate activists, especially in high-technology industries....
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
of investors and employees? It turns out that many of the boards of imploded companies such as Enron were composed of smart, honest, well-meaning, people. So what went wrong? How did these massive failures of corporate governance occur?...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
vulnerabilities that left Mexico exposed to a sudden change in investor appetite for Mexican securities in 1994. Political violence in Mexico and changes in monetary policy in the United States then led to radical changes in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
a natural experiment. Because firms with substantial institutional ownership would have been most affected by the SEC's now-delayed changes, we use the share and composition of institutional investors to sort firms into those more and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(OPM 30, 2001) and Blair S. Walker Wiley This is the true story of resolute immigration lawyer and activist Loida Lewis, beginning with her adventure-packed Philippine upbringing. A torrid love affair with brilliant, irascible financier...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code...
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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
believed that these holdout creditors created "collective action problems" and presented a major obstacle to successful sovereign debt restructurings. On the other hand, other observers argued that activist View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
deal because the offer is well below what Southeastern believes is Dell Inc.'s intrinsic value. Southeastern, along with activist investor Carl Icahn, wage a campaign to defeat the go-private deal and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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startup failure--of their own or of a company they were a part of--and want to build a narrative toolkit for talking to future employers and investors about the experience Want to join a startup and are looking for tools to evaluate...
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