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Investment Stewardship Sustainable investment: is it worth the hype? Here’s what you need to know Supposedly sustainable investment funds make a staggering list of promises, including higher returns, lower risk, combatting climate change and even supporting diversity. And many believe them: invest… 0 0
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Governance Are CEOs Really The Problem? A reader (in fact, one that provided invaluable input into “Grow the Pie”) alerted me to the article “ CEOs Are The Problem ” by renowned MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. The article makes the following… 0 0
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Investment Stewardship Is Sustainable Investing Really A Dangerous Placebo? Tariq Fancy, BlackRock’s former sustainable investing chief, caused a splash last month when he claimed that sustainable investing is “a dangerous placebo that harms the public interest”, “like sellin… 2 0
Steward Leadership Company purpose and profit need not be in conflict if we ‘grow the pie’ 1 A CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN CAPITALISM An apparent consensus exists amongst politicians, citizens, and even executives themselves – at both ends of the politica… 0 1
Steward Leadership How great companies deliver both purpose and profit Capitalism is in crisis. The consensus among politicians, citizens and even executives themselves – on both sides of the political spectrum and throughout the w… 1 0
Governance The Social Responsibility of Business Includes Profits Illustration by erhui1979, via Getty Images Profits these days are often seen as a dirty word, but it is wrong to demonize profits. A company’s responsibility i… 0 0
Investment Stewardship Sustainable investment: is it worth the hype? Here’s what you need to know Supposedly sustainable investment funds make a staggering list of promises, including higher returns, lower risk, combatting climate change and even supporting… 0 0
Governance What Stakeholder Capitalism Can Learn From Milton Friedman Instead of ridiculing the Friedman doctrine and proclaiming its death, advocates of stakeholder capitalism and responsible investing, like me, can learn a lot f… 1 0
Governance Are CEOs Really The Problem? A reader (in fact, one that provided invaluable input into “Grow the Pie”) alerted me to the article “ CEOs Are The Problem ” by renowned MIT economist Daron Ac… 0 0
Investment Stewardship Is Sustainable Investing Really A Dangerous Placebo? Tariq Fancy, BlackRock’s former sustainable investing chief, caused a splash last month when he claimed that sustainable investing is “a dangerous placebo that… 2 0
Investment Stewardship The purpose of a finance professor ABSTRACT The academic finance profession has the potential to be uniquely purposeful due to four characteristics – the freedom to take risks and work on what we… 0 0
Governance Is there really a business case for diversity? Am I seriously asking this question? The evidence on the business case for diversity appears to be overwhelming. A famous 2020 McKinsey report , entitled “Diver… 5 0
Sustainability Does sustainability reduce the cost of capital? It is often claimed that sustainability reduces a company’s cost of capital – i.e. the return it needs to offer its investors to raise funds. The logic seems st… 0 0