Filter Results:
(497)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(497)
- News (127)
- Research (294)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (251)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(497)
- News (127)
- Research (294)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (251)
- 12 Aug 2012
- News
Trends in ESG Integration in Investments (pdf)
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
ESG investors get their heads around social risks
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
ESG Returns Eventually Will Win Over Critics
- 13 Mar 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey
Keywords: by Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
It’s Time to Change How ESG Is Measured
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
ESG Reports Aren’t a Replacement for Real Sustainability
- 2022
- Article
Pills in a World of Activism and ESG
By: Guhan Subramanian and Caley Petrucci
Easterbrook and Fischel’s The Economic Structure of Corporate Law advances their now famous passivity thesis, which posits that managers should remain passive in the face of an unsolicited tender offer for the company’s shares. Consistent with the broader... View Details
Subramanian, Guhan, and Caley Petrucci. "Pills in a World of Activism and ESG." University of Chicago Business Law Review 1 (2022): 417–439.
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
ESG Needs To Be Core To Business As Usual
- 18 Jan 2021
- News
Boards Are Obstructing ESG — at Their Own Peril
- 2022
- Working Paper
ESG: Hyperboles and Reality
By: George Serafeim
ESG has rapidly become a household name leading to both confusion about what it means and creating unrealistic expectations about its effects. In this paper, I draw on more than a decade of research to dispel several myths about ESG and provide answers to important... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Reporting; ESG Ratings; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; Corporate Disclosure; Reports
Serafeim, George. "ESG: Hyperboles and Reality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-031, November 2021.
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
This Is What You’re Getting Wrong About ESG Ratings
- 17 Dec 2021
- News
Endowments, Foundations Turn to Consultants for Help with ESG
- 07 Sep 2020
- News
Where ESG Ratings Fail: The Case for New Metrics
- 21 Jul 2021
- News
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2023
- Working Paper
ESG: From Process to Product
By: George Serafeim
ESG measurement, analysis, management, and communication is a process that the financial industry has turned into a product, resulting in many investment funds using the ESG label. This has caused confusion, generating demand for a framework that defines... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Fund; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry
Serafeim, George. "ESG: From Process to Product." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-069, May 2023.