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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
research to professional, media, and academic audiences. She serves as an expert witness in individual and class action discrimination cases in both the U.S. and Canada. Soraya Chemaly Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge fund activist, Pershing Square had quietly amassed a 9.7% stake in Allergan prior to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 propose a leveraged recapitalization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE at conflict with electric...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
portrayed by the takeover artists and shareholder activists of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as by business school professors influenced by the work of scholars such as Oliver Williamson and Michael Jensen, as incompetent at best, and...
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- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
order to reduce their vulnerability. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-042 FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies In February 2015, Daniel Loeb (a U.S.–based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
volunteers, and that citizens took on so much responsibility—social entrepreneurs were another manifestation of America's entrepreneurial spirit. That's a strength we can mobilize at home and abroad. Citizen diplomats are all the philanthropists and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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 investors actually...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609027 Kmart and ESL Investments (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-044 A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents—including customers, regulators, legislators, local communities, and environmental activist...
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- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
capital market and regional development. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411081-PDF-ENG Carl Icahn and Clorox Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen DuranteHarvard Business School Case 412-078 This case outlines the takeover attempt by View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
people. I have been working with them for the last 70 years of my life,” says Bermek, who has worked as a human rights activist in the country and the region for the last twenty years after a long career in business. “We are not taking...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Hunt, based on Mohammed Al Samawi’s autobiography about how four Facebook friends managed to extract a young peace activist from war-torn Yemen. Who, not what: “One of my favorite assignments at McKinsey was working on a synthetic fabric...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
letter aloud to him. The black activist strongly urged the chief executive to keep it to himself. If he sent it, Douglass said, the missive would be interpreted “as a complete surrender of your anti-slavery policy, and do you serious...
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- 10 Jul 2018
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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
- 07 Aug 2012
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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
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
topics.Fuller: Well, I'm sure activists from the '60s and '70s are absolutely astounded by the results of that Edelman survey. A graduate of our school, Mr. Edelman. Let's jump to a couple of the other issues that are being widely...
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- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-052 Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change? Environmental activist groups have traditionally opposed nuclear energy. However, the growing...
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Carmen Nobel