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Alex Edmans

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Alex Edmans is a finance professor at London Business School whose work focuses on corporate purpose, sustainable business, and evidence-based reasoning. He is the author of Grow the Pie and May Contain Lies, books that have influenced discussions of responsible capitalism and critical thinking in business and public debate.

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Alex Edmans is a British finance scholar whose career has moved between academia, markets, and public debate. He studied Economics and Management at Oxford, spent two years at Morgan Stanley in London and New York, and then completed a PhD in finance at MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar. After joining Wharton in 2007 and receiving tenure in 2013, he moved to London Business School, where he became Professor of Finance and developed a research portfolio spanning corporate finance, responsible business, and behavioural finance. ((https://alexedmans.com/about/biography/))

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Investing in stakeholders doesn’t reduce investors’ slice. It grows the pie, benefiting investors as a by-product
-Grow The Pie in 28 tweets
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You can’t just take an ESG rating off the shelf and then trade according to it
-The Inconsistency of ESG Ratings: Implications for Investors
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We must be very, very careful about interpreting evidence as causal, when it only shows a correlation
-A Layman’s Guide to Separating Causation from Correlation … and Noticing When Claims of Causality are Invalid
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Diagnosis precedes treatment
-Is Short Termism Really A Problem?
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“No evidence of short-termism”, however, is not the same as “evidence of no short-termism”
-CEOs Cut Investment To Sell Their Own Shares At High Prices
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To reach the land of profit, follow the road of purpose
-Why purpose is critical for long-term success
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One of the most dangerous phrases is “research shows that …”
-Three tips for breaking through bias and seeing evidence more clearly
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If—and only if— those assumptions are violated, is there a case for moving away from shareholder value
-Here’s what we can learn about stakeholder capitalism from Milton Friedman

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