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  • June 2007 (Revised December 2007)
  • Case

AFL-CIO: Office of Investment and Home Depot

By: Rakesh Khurana and James Weber
Describes the AFL-CIO: Office of Investments activities in their campaign to improve governance at Home Depot by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

How can the equity swap help alleviate the common mismatch between pension assets and liabilities that companies often carry? A: If the pension fund holds equities, then these... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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  • 20 Oct 2019
  • News

U.S. Business Schools Realize ESG is no Fad but Part of Long-Term Trend

  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

investment or standing in the way? The results of the study have already drawn the attention of pension funds and other asset managers. Some observers have questioned whether oil producers are really using... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

governance, human capital, and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. Publisher's link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20102 August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Does Planning Regulation Protect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

ESG Integration in Investment Management: Myths and Realities

By: Sakis Kotsantonis, Christopher Pinney and George Serafeim
The authors’ aim in this article is to set the record straight on the financial performance of sustainable investing while also correcting a number of other widespread misconceptions about this rapidly growing set of principles and methods. Myth Number 1:... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Sustainability; Investment Management; Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance
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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • October 2023
      • Case

      Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters

      By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
      For more than fifteen years, successful Canadian entrepreneur and investor Kevin O’Leary had developed his brand into a global powerhouse. Since his first appearance on the Canadian television program Dragons’ Den in 2006 and his meteoric rise to stardom through the... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Brand; Crisis; Brands and Branding; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Social Media; Public Opinion; Power and Influence; Financial Services Industry
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      • 06 May 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: May 6

      politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 22 Apr 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

      provided a good return for a pension fund holder at some point, but that investor and society pay more in the end through increased health care costs. Hayes said that Domini's picture of a system run amok,... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 08 Jul 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: July 8

      retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration of America's shift away from... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 21 Jul 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

      The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression. But what do... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • 07 Dec 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

      industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
      • 06 Nov 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

      Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are... View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
      • 05 Jun 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: June 5

      environment of scientific and industrial expansion. Venture funding occurred more widely in the United States than it ever had done before. While the roots of the American venture capital industry are long-standing and multifaceted, they... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 30 Jan 2018
      • First Look

      January 30, 2018

      service. They each provided alternative visions of the world. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317100-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-022 Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Feb 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: February 5, 2008

      Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        Richard F. Meyer

        Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details