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- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
Brochet, Francois, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial- and disclosure-related fraud. Investors can name... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
sought, in the words of historian Jackson Lears, to "stabilize the sorcery of the market." The relationship between the forecasting industry and modernity was an ambivalent one, though. On the one hand, the early forecasters helped build key View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
nonetheless offer a host of principles (the Reverend Louis Sullivan's Global Sullivan Principles), management standards (the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability's AccountAbility 1000), best practice guidelines (the OECD... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk-reduction instrument. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46363... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The Effect of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
resisters in their networks did not necessarily know one another and so were unlikely to form a coalition. Change agents with cohesive networks, in which all individuals were connected, were better at instituting minor changes. Their... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
meant making quick, difficult staffing decisions when some of her colleagues weren't able to grow with the company. "It took a long time to get funding," she continued, recalling that she was eight months pregnant when she made her initial, unsuccessful... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
asset class. In recent years, a growing number of individual and institutional investors have allocated a portion of their capital into agricultural farmland. Private investors, public companies, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
the government—the religious groups that do not work, but whom the government subsidizes. The nation has no large industry of rental housing, nor does it have the rental-constituencies of the United States: the people living in, profiting from, concerned with rental... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
2004-2007. Results show that firms that are more environmentally damaging, particularly those in countries where they are more exposed to scrutiny and global norms, are less likely to engage in selective disclosure. We discuss contributions to the literature that spans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
LV:There’s certainly a symbolic vibe when the Dow gets to 20,000-- something to celebrate to the extent that it reflects the American economy’s long history of growth, profitability, and success. For the professional and institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
struggled to realize good returns from investments since the year 2000. Many traditional investors are questioning whether they should continue to provide capital to these funds. But given the important role that venture capital has had... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a rising reliance on foreign... View Details