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21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do October 2014 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do? By: Miller,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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AASU50 - Alumni

Roberto Young, MBA 2007 AASU Award Recipients Each year at the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference, HBSAAA and AASU celebrate a tradition of leadership and service by conferring the... View Details

01 May 2018
News

Elon Musk’s Unusual Compensation Plan Isn’t Really About Compensation at All

2015
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Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business Models on Information Intermediaries

By: Robert G. Eccles, Jock Herron and George Serafeim

A new generation of corporate reporting—integrated reporting—is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation of corporate performance than what is... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Business Models; Business Model

12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

the need for change puts itself at a distinct disadvantage to one that tracks the Four Rs along with indicators of learning and innovation. The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2016
News

How to Survive a Company Scandal You Had Nothing to Do With

Article

Investors as Stewards of the Commons?

By: George Serafeim

Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive social impact. In this paper, I provide a framework outlining the role of investors as stewards of the commons. While... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Industry Self-regulation; Sustainability; ESG; Capital Markets; Investor Behavior; Investment Activism; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Cooperation

Spring 2013
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Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?

By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Ioanna Serafeim

We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that mandatorily adopt IFRS relative to forecast... View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Financial Reporting; Standards; Information; Quality; Earnings Management

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

discussion-based seminar we will practice learning to hold all that is happening and nonetheless finding the courage and the skill to act. Risks, Opportunities, And Investments... View Details

April–May 2017
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Career Concerns of Banking Analysts

By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Shan Wu

We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue early in the year relatively more optimistic and later in the year more pessimistic forecasts... View Details

Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Analyst Forecasts; Analysts; Investment Recommendations; Career Advancement; Career Management; Labor Mobility; Labor Market; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Banking

19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

Society Starts Here Authors:Eccles Robert G., and George Serafeim Publication:CSR Report 2013 Abstract No abstract available. Book:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

Sakis, Shalini Rao, Daniela Saltzman, and George Serafeim Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50239 December 2015... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle

more depth. “At HBS, the faculty think about things on a different level,” he says. “It’s intoxicating, so exciting and fun. That’s when I realized that in academia you can think about questions that fire you up View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

2016
Working Paper

Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

By: Paul Healy and George Serafeim

Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced white-collar crime, we investigate what drives punishment of perpetrators of crime. We find a significantly lower propensity to punish crime in our sample, where most crimes are not reported... View Details

Keywords: Crime; Gender Bias; Women; Women Executives; Corruption; Legal Aspects Of Business; Firing; Human Capital; Human Resource Management; Prejudice and Bias; Crime and Corruption; Judgments; Law Enforcement; Human Resources; Corporate Governance; Gender