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  • 03 Nov 2021
  • News

Business Leaders Must Take Action on Climate and Voting Rights

  • Article

The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms' and Their Analysts' Research Activities

By: David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
In traditional markets, the price mechanism directs the flow of resources and governs the process through which supply and demand are brought into equilibrium. In the investment-research industry, broker votes perform these functions. Using detailed clinical data from... View Details
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  • 16 May 2022
  • News

The Surprising Benefits of Voting for Change

  • 07 Mar 2017
  • News

UK prices rising faster after Brexit vote

  • May 2023
  • Article

How Do Campaigns Shape Vote Choice? Multi-Country Evidence from 62 Elections and 56 TV Debates

By: Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
We use two-round survey data from 62 elections in 10 countries since 1952 to study the formation of vote choice, beliefs, and policy preferences and assess how televised debates contribute to this process. Our data include 253,000 observations. We compare the... View Details
Keywords: Political Debates; TV Debates; Voting; Political Elections; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 12 Feb 2020
  • News

Michael Norton Explains 'Boaty McBoatface,’ And The Risks Of Consumer Voting

  • 2007
  • Other Unpublished Work

Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK

By: Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber
In this study, we examine the effect on CEO pay of new legislation introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) at the end of 2002 that requires publicly-traded firms to submit an executive remuneration report to a non-binding shareholder vote ("say on pay") at the annual... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; Performance Improvement; Business and Shareholder Relations; United Kingdom
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On Derivatives Markets and Social Welfare: A Theory of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership

By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
In the past twenty-five years, derivatives markets have grown exponentially. Large, modern derivatives markets increasingly enable investors to hold economic interests in corporations without owning voting rights, and vice versa. This leads to both empty... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Markets; Ownership
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  • 17 Jun 2021
  • News

Joe Manchin’s sweeping new voting rights proposal, explained

    Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates

    In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by more than 12.5% of registered citizens. Using a fuzzy RDD around... View Details
    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    Voting Out Incumbents Boosts Economic Growth, Decreases Corruption

    • 21 Jun 2016
    • News

    Britain's Brexit Vote Goes Beyond The Economy: It's About Fear of the Future

    • November 4, 2020
    • Other Article

    'Big and Little' Challenges as Votes are Counted

    By: P. Tufano
    Keywords: Political Elections; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues
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    • 2006
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Does Banks' Corporate Control Benefit Firms? Evidence from US Banks' Control over Firms' Voting Rights

    By: Joao A.C. Santos and Kristin Wilson
    In this paper we examine the importance of banks' corporate control over their borrowers by investigating the loan pricing effect of banks' voting stakes in borrowers. We exploit the fact that banks may hold shares of firms in a fiduciary capacity to identify a clean... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

    By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
    How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document that... View Details
    Keywords: Government Legislation; Race; Behavior; Voting; Prejudice and Bias
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    • January 2013
    • Case

    Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company

    By: Ian D. Gow and Gaizka Ormazabal
    This case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that shareholders reject the proposed compensation. View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Votes; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    • Editorial

    ExxonMobil's Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

    By: George Serafeim and Sakis Kotsantonis
    Keywords: Climate Change; Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Investments; Environment
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    • 2014
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Black Voting Rights

    By: Dean Grodzins and David Moss
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    • 27 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

    American political candidates are forecast to spend as much as $12 billion by next November to put ads on airwaves, texts on phones, and signs on lawns. Yet new research from Harvard Business School finds that no amount of money can undo an essential factor that... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 19 Jun 2024
    • News

    Would You Invite Employees to Vote on Strategic Direction?