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  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54709 Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors By: Viceira, Luis M., and Zixuan (Kevin) Wang Abstract—This paper conducts a theoretical and empirical investigation of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

months after the initial filing. We show that firms that are targeted by activists are more likely to get acquired than those in a control sample. Finally, we show that the portfolios managed by activist... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

broker, such imitation does not occur. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to execute their trades tend to buy the same stocks just before the filing of the 13D.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

choices. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-064 OpenInvest Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

groups, such as the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, work in partnership with business, government, and community leaders to promote business models that emphasize the public good. Beyond government and NGOs, other parties put their money where their values lie... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

purpose to create an impact on their organizations and the leader's own self-actualization. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review How to Outsmart Activist View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

times forced CEOs to focus on cost-cutting and strategic reorientation. As corporate earnings recovered following the recession, CEOs have maintained very disciplined spending levels and shared their growing cash flows with investors in... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-403 Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy By 2015, there had been an upsurge in activist shareholders arguing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

activist investor Third Point Management. The activist had criticized Dow’s recent performance and advocated that the company split itself to maximize its potential. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

small enough to avoid extortion. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50675 Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

of investors and employees? It turns out that many of the boards of imploded companies such as Enron were composed of smart, honest, well-meaning, people. So what went wrong? How did these massive failures of corporate governance occur?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

the board of directors to help improve the management of the business. When these negotiations failed, Biglari launched a proxy fight against Friendly in 2007. While these two activist investors shared... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on that day. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

diagnostic firm, is evaluating the offer made by Ron Zwanziger, the firm’s founder and former CEO, to acquire the company and take it private. The offer arrives at the end of a tumultuous year for the company, which saw Zwanziger fighting and ultimately losing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

In mid-2012, Clairemont had invested nearly $75M in Yahoo! after the tech company settled a highly visible proxy fight with prolific activist investor Daniel Loeb of hedge fund Third Point. Since that time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

organizations prefer to diversify into product categories with three features: high levels of fit with the organization’s current clients, campaigns, and strategies; appealing market features, defined as highly integrated, predictable, low-risk supply chains and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

tender offer and the urging of several activist investors and sold their firm to the smaller Dollar Tree chain. Dreiling could not help but revisit some of the key decisions he and the rest of the board had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

experiment to measure the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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