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Corporate Good vs. Social Good: Can Investors Have Both?

In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, a podcast produced by Stanford Graduate School of Business, hosts Jules van...

How Stress Affects CEO Aging and Mortality

CEOs work long hours, make high-stakes decisions such as initiating layoffs or plant closures, and face uncertainty in times of crisis....

Why Green Assets May Not Continue to Outperform

Recent years have seen high returns for investments in green assets, or stocks and bonds of companies that espouse environmental, social,...

How Common Ownership of Startups Improves Innovation Efficiency

When venture capital firms own equity in more than one competing startup in an industry, they have the ability to improve innovation...

Why Regulation Won’t Harm Cryptocurrencies

The confirmation on April 14 of Gary Gensler as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has fueled worries that increased...

How Biases Influence CEOs Throughout Their Careers

When a celebrity CEO decides to move on, as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announced he would later this year, it’s an opportunity to revisit what...

Building Diversity into the Venture Capital Ecosystem

Before Melissa Bradley taught at Georgetown University, before she served under Presidents Clinton and Obama, and long before she...

What’s Wrong with the IPO Process and How to Fix It

While DoorDash and Airbnb successfully completed their much-anticipated IPOs this past week, there has been a lot of scrutiny on how...

Jeremy Siegel: What’s Ahead for the Stock Market?

The U.S. stock market is likely to continue its strong cadence well into 2021, with “a good election” and encouraging signs that a...

Why ESG Investors Are Happy to Settle for Lower Returns

If money talks, then investors could surely prod corporations to espouse environmental, social and governance or ESG aspects in how they...