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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Rating Better
associate professor Joshua Coval, and Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago’s business school, conclude that a manager’s ability can best be detected by comparing his or her portfolio with those of other fund managers with stellar... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 08 May 2025 By Faculty View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View... View Details
- 29 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Patent Trolls
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In successful change efforts, the first... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
social networks in the form of school ties—bonds formed based on attendance at a common educational institution—helped equity analysts outperform on stock recommendations when the analysts enjoyed an educational link with a company's public management. Harvard Business... View Details
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Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 08 May 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View... View Details
- 20 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Sell Side School Ties
- Apr 23 2023
- Interview
Bringing Together the Rising Generation
- 26 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom. Associate Professors View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Channels of Influence
- 19 Nov 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Lazy Prices
- 23 Jan 2015
- News
How U.S. laws protecting America’s best ideas are killing innovation
- 2008
- Working Paper
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt
We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee of a 401(k) plan. This affords the plan sponsor potential... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Conflict of Interests; Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, and Breno Schmidt. "Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-054, January 2008. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association 2006. Winner of the Society of Quantitative Analysts Award, Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, Western Finance Association 2007.)
- 29 Apr 2015
- News
Using Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
the authors of Channels of Influence, by Harvard Business School Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy, and Umit G. Gurun, an associate professor at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime a year, finds a study by View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
Lazy Prices - Follow the Filings
Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995-2014, Professor Lauren Cohen shows that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important signal about future firm operations. View Details