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  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

exhibits, which help to illustrate the firm's value proposition, its innovation-oriented culture, and its evolving organizational design. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409047 The Canada View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely, unions and public employee View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

corporate standards in Brazil improved enormously, not only because the regulator became tougher and introduced more transparent disclosure standards, but also because there was a big movement to improve corporate governance led by View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

case:http://hbr.org/search/812177-PDF-ENG Altoona State Investment Board: July 2012 Lerner, Josh, and Nathaniel BurbankHarvard Business School Case 813-100 Considers the decision faced by state pension fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

million to $15 million. During this phase, you can self-finance or establish a search fund to recruit potential investors. Strike a deal. When you’ve settled on a target, do preliminary due diligence to confirm the business’s viability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

from this short-term fixation. Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're getting public money, you're getting investor money, pension... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-079 Margin Accounts No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-032 Stock-Based Compensation at Twitter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

as mutual funds and pensions that wanted to invest in those securities. Investment banks also provided advice on mergers and acquisitions. In the early 1980s the derivative markets were quite small and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

in defined-contribution pension plans, such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

Number 6: Consideration of ESG factors might create a conflict with fiduciary duty for some investors. Reality: Many ESG factors have been shown to have positive correlations with corporate financial performance and value, prompting ERISA in 2015 to reverse its earlier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

The trillion-dollar size of the union pension funds gave the Office a platform from which to work. The departure of Home Depot's CEO had been a significant step by Home Depot and the company had made other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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