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  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

between two broad, general varieties of state capitalism: one through majority control of publicly traded companies (e.g., state-controlled SOEs) and a hybrid form that relies on minority investments in companies by development banks, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're getting public money, you're getting investor money, pension... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

TDC's shares to force compulsory redemption under Denmark law. However, a pension fund that held 5.5% of the outstanding stock has rejected the offer. Should Nordic Telephone lower its 90% acceptance threshold and purchase TDC without a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

noting that these leaders were acting on what they believed to be true, rather than taking irresponsible risks, not seeing they were in any real danger until it was too late. Public pension funds, on the other hand, were the victims of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 12 Apr 2023
  • News

Step Change

for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family offices, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the microprocessor and the semiconductor; and third, the rise of... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading decisions.   Working Papers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is giving a tax break, it should be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

from this short-term fixation. Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 10 Aug 2022
  • News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

earlier Denmark has digital literacy for their entire 50-plus population every year. They have working longer. They have pension systems that are being revised around working longer. So changing a society is easier, obviously, when it's a... View Details
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life-cycle to mimic popular default investment choices in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

knowledge-based organization. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608073 Norway Sells Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 308-019 In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

Number 6: Consideration of ESG factors might create a conflict with fiduciary duty for some investors. Reality: Many ESG factors have been shown to have positive correlations with corporate financial performance and value, prompting ERISA in 2015 to reverse its earlier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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