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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
announced the launch of a new fund Jana Impact. The basic premise is that the fund will be able to generate superior returns by using Jana’s activist approach with companies that are underperforming on ESG metrics. The case examines the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
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
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
Ten years before Harvard Business School published its first case study, activists across Europe celebrated the first International Women’s Day. They demanded, among other things, the right for women to hold public office and an end to... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
or as an effort of managers to massage metrics. The salutary effects of activist investors can be appreciated, just as one also appreciates the information and incentive problems that plague their money management industry. The channeling... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
imposing costs on marginal ones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52388 Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
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
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Cofounder and activist in residence, B Lab UK Kim Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) Global Ambassador, B Lab and Head of Impact, B Lab US & Canada Business as a Tool for Activism BIO BIO As the recent IPCC report made clear, this is a “Code Red”... View Details
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
change in one industry might affect others. Continuous learning in this rapidly evolving space. Staying up to date on climate change news is an important way to get educated and find out about new industries and job openings. Look at areas where VCs are View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding... View Details
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Harvard Business School
in May 1970, they held a strike protesting the killing of two Black students in Jackson, Mississippi. AASU invited speakers such as civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson to campus. Working groups within AASU also addressed issues like... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman
August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
manager who had invested in Friendly, entered into negotiations with Friendly for him to join the board of directors to help improve the management of the business. When these negotiations failed, Biglari launched a proxy fight against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
Opportunities, and Investment in the Era of Climate Change”, to Professors Vikram Gandhi and George Serafeim. Both professors were eager to develop the course and expand climate change curricular offerings at the School, building on their... View Details
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog
contexts including equity-investment analysis, IPOs, mergers, short selling opportunities, and hedge fund activist investing strategies. Over the course of the semester, several high-profile guest speakers,... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information about large stock trades to their best, most lucrative clients. When a savvy activist investor submits a trading order through a brokerage firm, for example, the brokers will exploit this information by telling their favorite... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
As a junior Episcopal minister, Bob Massie (DBA 1989) infuriated church leaders by revealing to his congregation that its $9 million endowment was secretly invested in a number of unchurchly entities, including military contractors,... View Details