Russell Reconstitution Day - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2024
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The Passive-Ownership Share Is Double What You Think It Is

By: Alex Chinco and Marco Sammon

Each time a stock gets added to or dropped from a benchmark index, we ask: “How much money would have to be tracking that index to explain the huge spike in rebalancing volume we observe on reconstitution day?” While index funds held 16% of the US stock market in 2021,... View Details

Keywords: Indexing; Passive Investing; Exchange-traded Funds (ETFs); Russell Reconstitution Day; Trading Volume; Information-based Asset Pricing; Investment Funds; Asset Pricing

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01 Sep 2003
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Class Day & Commencement

Class Day Student Speaker Brendan McGeever (MBA ’03). More Class Day and Commencement photos. Photography by Stuart Cahill and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Conditions were cloudy and cool but the mood was festive... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2017
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Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence

By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Suraj Srinivasan and Liang Tan

We provide new evidence on the agency theory of corporate tax avoidance (Slemrod, 2004; Crocker and Slemrod, 2005; Chen and Chu, 2005) by showing that increases in institutional ownership are associated with increases in tax avoidance. Using the Russell index... View Details

Keywords: Tax Avoidance; Agency Costs; Institutional Ownership; Private Ownership; Crime and Corruption; Taxation; Agency Theory

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12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

all have to be in alignment." Along with Russell A. Eisenstat, an independent consultant and former HBS faculty member, Beer has developed a process called Organizational Fitness Profiling, which helps a CEO or business unit general... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Herbert J. Siegel Chris-Craft Industries, 1968–Present Igor I. Sikorsky Sikorsky Aircraft, 1923–1957 Russell Simmons Def Jam Records / Rush Communications, 1983–Present Norton W. Simon Hunt Foods & Industries, 1942–1968 John R. Simplot... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

History of the Modern World HI 6 of 10 Lauren Morimoto Iolani School Honolulu, HI HI 7 of 10 Russell Motter ‘Iolani School Honolulu, HI Subjects: AP U.S. History HI 8 of 10 Heather Muraoka 'Iolani School Honolulu, HI Subjects: U.S.... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

West Palm Beach, FL MA Heather Bagdoian Claremont Academy Worcester, MA AL Suzanne Bailey Virgil Grissom High School Huntsville, AL CO Denny Bain Poudre High School Fort Collins, CO Subjects: American Government, US History, Economics MA Laura Baines-Walsh Newton... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

two youngest children, who were born with a rare and often fatal neuromuscular disorder. Watching its production was, alternately, an unreal, thrilling, and deeply emotional experience for the Crowley family. Less than a year after delivering the Class View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

So many boxes. Drew Dixon (MBA 2004) moved into this Brooklyn Heights apartment just a few days ago, as evidenced by the ratio of boxes emptied to those still filled. The living room, though, is an island of unpacked order, bobbing above... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Jul 2011
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Phone Fun

Braterman: The man to call when it comes to selling phones. Photo courtesy Russell Braterman When it comes to selling mobile phones to a youthful market, Phones 4u’s marketing director Russell Braterman (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

years. Last October, I was in the hospital for a few weeks, and Bob would come every afternoon to spend the day with me. I’d introduce him around as my husband; no one batted an eye. I never imagined we’d see this happen. —Paul Raeder... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

correspondence, and statistics on goods exported from China to the United States. Two day books kept from Macao and Canton detail expenses and credits and dealings with American China trading firms Olyphant & Co. and View Details

07 Jun 2016
First Look

June 7, 2016

avoidance (Slemrod, 2004; Crocker and Slemrod, 2005; Chen and Chu, 2005) by showing that increases in institutional ownership are associated with increases in tax avoidance. Using the Russell index View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation

team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first product CassVita... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2019
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Making Eco Easy

formulated, concentrated products that consumers reconstitute with water in Blueland’s reusable acrylic spray bottles—tinted pink for bathroom cleaning, yellow for multisurface, and blue for glass or mirrors. The company also recently... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change

by Ralph Ranalli Talking about his ambitious plans to create a safer, cleaner type of nuclear power plant, Russell Wilcox says, quite matter-of-factly, that he was "looking for a project that would have an impact on the world." There... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

Photograph Courtesy Blink On June 10, 2008, two years and two days after receiving their HBS diplomas, Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden (both MBA ’06) watched a Cessna Citation Mustang with four passengers taxi down the runway at London’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns

Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details

Keywords: life experience; search firm; entrepreneurship

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream). However, orders placed for delivery tomorrow versus two days in the future do not show this want/should... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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