by Lauren Cohen - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen & Breno Schmidt; Financial Services

09 Dec 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Friends in High Places

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen & Christopher Malloy

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior research associate View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

05 Jul 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Buying the Verdict

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen and Umit G. Gurun

August 2019
Case

Simón Cohen at Henco: Sustaining 'High Performance, Happy People'

By: Francesca Gino, Jeff Steiner, Arianna Camacho and Paul Green

Simón Cohen—Founder of Henco Logistics—transformed a small Mexican logistics company into a major player within the industry. Cohen credits the firm’s focus on employee happiness as the key ingredient to its success, an approach he developed following a personal... View Details

Keywords: Work/life Balance; Growth Strategy; Corporate Culture; Motivation; Values; Authentic Leadership Development; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Values and Beliefs; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry

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19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

both employers and employees to strike a brand-new balance when it comes to loyalty—one that gives organizations the focus and expertise they need to compete and employees the career development opportunities they demand? According to the experts interviewed View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

12 Feb 2008
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The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

08 Dec 2010
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Decoding Inside Information

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy & Lukasz Pomorski; Financial Services

16 Jan 2008
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The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

15 May 2007
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How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

a significant number of non-practicing entities acquire patents for the sole purpose of coercing companies, mostly technology firms, into paying licensing or settlement fees (whether justified or not). Are NPEs friend or foe? New research coauthored View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

15 Aug 2012
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Legislating Stock Prices

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

be high-school graduates who had received one of the numerous scholarships Samsung had sponsored. All of this company largesse struck Harvard Business School Professor Lauren Cohen as a bit... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

09 Nov 2023
HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

As a finance specialist, Harvard Business School Professor Lauren Cohen works to understand the dynamics that make businesses thrive. In his recent research on family companies, he has found one common... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health

October 2009
Article

Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients

By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt

We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named the trustee of a 401(k) plan. We find that family trustees... View Details

Keywords: Value; Information; Investment Funds; Stocks; Relationships; Financial Services Industry

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29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In successful change efforts, the first... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

gym, Cohen is a record-breaking amateur powerlifter, able to squat more than 600 pounds. Here’s a transcript of the discussion: Question: What is the next big thing in finance? Lauren Cohen: The next big... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

26 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

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