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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
sectors. And then I think—perhaps a story that is still emerging—are asset allocators, sovereign funds, pension funds that are steadily embracing what are called, you know, ESG principles (environmental, social, governance criteria) and... 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
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
minimize the impact of taxes on their investors’ returns. The assignment was complicated as KSW had different categories of investors (a sovereign wealth fund, pension funds, and high net worth individuals) each of which had different tax... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
vice-chairman of the Blackstone Group, is the protagonist. At the time of the case, BAAM was considering two potential directions for future growth: 1) providing hedge fund products for the defined-contribution pension space and 2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely, unions and public employee View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 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
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
finance, and electronic trading, which brought new market participants. Some of these new participants, such as pension funds, were significantly larger and had different strategic agendas than the traditional agricultural-related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
themselves may be conflicted. They often have very large contracts in the very same companies for pension work, for instance. Moreover, the use of consultants (and the way it's done in a lot of companies) creates what I call "the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark