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Research: How Investors’ Reading Habits Influence Stock Prices

Harvard Business

A cornerstone of efficient and transparent markets is freely available information. But does the mere action of placing a piece of financial news in the public domain make it readily seen and efficiently reflected in stock prices? And they read far more news than any other group of finance professionals.

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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business

This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught. In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business

Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality. .” Similarly, in 2007 Giulia Faggio and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics and Kjell G.