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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the small corners where they are... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
U.S. innovators dogged by money-grubbing ‘patent trolls’
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation Satish Tadikonda Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion (also listed under Finance) Lauren Cohen Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course:... View Details
- 29 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Patent Trolls
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Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion Finance, Entrepreneurial Management Lauren Cohen Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems Finance, Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 20 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Sell Side School Ties
- 26 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News
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and Systems Change (SESC) General Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Tom Clay Designing Tech Ventures Technology & Operations Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Katherine Coffman Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 View Details
- 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
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation Satish Tadikonda Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion (also listed under Finance) Lauren Cohen Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course:... View Details
- Apr 23 2023
- Interview
Bringing Together the Rising Generation
- 28 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Channels of Influence
- 19 Nov 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Lazy Prices
- 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
- 23 Jan 2015
- News
How U.S. laws protecting America’s best ideas are killing innovation
- 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
- 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.)