Activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2022
Article

Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?

I study whether industry employment of active regulators weakens oversight. To examine this question, I exploit that the Financial Reporting Enforcement Panel (FREP), the German capital-market regulator responsible for enforcing public firms’ compliance with accounting... View Details

Keywords: Conflict-of-interest Policies; Directorships; Enforcement Actions; Industry Employment; Self-regulatory Organizations; Governance Compliance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Conflict of Interests

06 Jun 2023
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The Opioid Crisis, CEO Pay, and Shareholder Activism

Keywords: Re: Suraj Srinivasan; Health; Pharmaceutical; Distribution

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Report Archive - Global Activities 2021

Report Archive Report Archive The Global Activities Report highlights HBS’s engagement and impact around the world as the School works to educate leaders who have the global understanding necessary to envision, and act on, the most... View Details

2020
Conference Presentation

Active World Model Learning with Progress-driven Exploration

By: K-H Kim, M. Sano, J. De Freitas, N. Haber and D. L. K. Yamins

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20 Sep 2017
News

Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

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Divided We Lead: CEO Activism Has Entered the Mainstream

By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel

Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews with leaders who have made activism part of their core activities, we found that they feel compelled to address... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Communication Strategy

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01 May 2017
News

An active role for the Divinity School

November 2021
Supplement

Education Partners: Becoming Actively Anti-Racist (B)

By: Ethan Rouen and Carolyn Liu

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Latin America - Global Activities 2021

Latin America Latin America Appreciating One’s Humanity as a Leader Pictured: Karen Bruck, a vice president at MercadoLibre, is the protagonist of a case highlighting the challenges of helping employees to succeed. Danyel O’Connor (PLD 32, 2021), the executive vice... View Details

2023
Working Paper

Do Active Funds Do Better in What They Trade?

By: Marco Sammon and John J. Shim

We develop two new, simple measures to quantify active fund decisions at the individual position level. The intuition is to separate passive rebalancing induced by flows and position changes from active rebalancing decisions. We find that additive active rebalancing --... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Financial Management

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June 2003
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Activity Based Pricing in a Monopoly

By: V.G. Narayanan

Keywords: Price; Monopoly

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1998
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Activity Systems as Barriers to Imitation

By: Michael Porter and Jan W. Rivkin

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01 Feb 2015
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Has the death knell of active management been rung too soon?

2006
Article

The Long-Term Value of M&A Activity to Enhance Learning Organizations

Viewing the automobile industry as being made up of independent learning-organisations may reveal some tie-ups that can generate value not easily revealed by traditional financial metrics. The key question to be answered when considering M&A activity between automakers... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

revelations about China’s involvement in the port that would have likely never surfaced without guidance from our professors and discovery on the ground. ” Pallavi Menon MBA 2020 Involvement with the Belt and Road Initiative The two-week immersion was packed with... View Details

2023
Working Paper

Labor Reactions to Credit Deterioration: Evidence from LinkedIn Activity

We provide the first analysis of workers’ on-the-job networking activity following their firm’s credit deterioration. Using high-frequency networking on LinkedIn, we show that workers initiate more connections immediately following adverse credit shocks. We propose a... View Details

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