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I’m Alex Edmans, professor of finance, author, speaker, board member, and advisor. I focus on purposeful business, sustainable investing, corporate governance, and behavioural finance. This website contains both academic research and resources for practitioners.
Biography - Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans FBA FAcSS is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York).
Books - Alex Edmans
In this ground-breaking book, acclaimed finance professor and TED speaker Alex Edmans shows it’s not an either-or choice. Drawing from real-life examples spanning industries and countries, Edmans demonstrates that purpose-driven businesses are …
About - Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York).
Research - Alex Edmans
Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence (with Xavier Gabaix and Dirk Jenter) Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance, Chapter 9, 383-539, 2017 (edited by Hermalin/Weisbach). Survey paper on executive compensation, containing (1) Data on CEO and other top executive pay over time and across firms, including private firms and non-US firms.
Academic CV - Alex Edmans
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Blog - Alex Edmans
This blog aims to make complex academic papers accessible to a general audience. For posts on responsible business (academic papers and current events), please visit the blog of my book Grow the Pie.. For the Chinese blog, please click here.
Short biography - Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans FBA FAcSS is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
Speaking - Alex Edmans
Only if you are truly open to the possibility of being wrong can you ever learn, says researcher Alex Edmans. In an insightful talk, he explores how confirmation bias – the tendency to only accept information that supports your personal beliefs – can lead you astray on social media, in politics and beyond, and offers three practical tools ...
11 1. The Practical Value of Stakeholder Capitalism Evidence that the stock market misvaluesintangibles: Edmans (2011, 2012) on employee satisfaction Khan, Serafeim, Yoon (2016) on material stakeholder issues Chan, Lakonishok, Sougiannis(2001) on R&D and advertising Banker, Huang, Natarajan, Zhao (2019) on SG&A Bennett, Erel, Stern, Wang (2020) on paid family leave