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Cybersecurity + ESG for the Global Capital Markets

Harvard Corporate Governance

Nasdaq’s ESG Reporting Guide is a leading standard within the global capital markets for companies implementing ESG policies and metrics. This can aid in encouraging more enhanced cybersecurity governance and improvements for the global capital markets. WHY IS CYBERSECURITY CRITICAL TO AN ESG FRAMEWORK?

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A Tale of Two Networks: Common Ownership and Product Market Rivalry

Harvard Corporate Governance

The past few decades have seen public equity markets becoming increasingly dominated by a few large, diversified institutional investors such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and Fidelity. It requires information on both the competitive landscape (which firms compete with each other) and asset markets (which firm’s shares each investor holds).

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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Mary Ann Deignan, Rich Thomas, and Kathryn Night, Lazard, on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Editor's Note: Mary Ann Deignan is Head of Capital Markets Advisory, and Rich Thomas and Kathryn Night are Managing Directors in the Capital Markets Advisory group at Lazard. This post is based on a Lazard memorandum by Ms.

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The Credit Markets Go Dark

Harvard Corporate Governance

In The Credit Markets Go Dark , we describe how private credit funds are reshaping corporate governance and corporate finance and offer new data capturing its meteoric rise. trillion in 2023. more…)

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals.

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Building Trust in Private Market Valuations: The Role of International Valuation Standards

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Valuing Private Markets: Can We Get It Right? Private markets are expanding. Strengthening governance, enhancing transparency, and ensuring valuations support market integrity and investor protection as private markets expand. But with growth comes scrutiny. Regulators, including the U.S. Their focus? The takeaway?

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Not Even a Raging Bull Market Can Rescue SPACs

Harvard Corporate Governance

an EV automaker taken public in late 2020 via a reverse merger with a SPAC [1] that sported a market value exceeding $6 billion within several months of the deal closing, was another reminder of how woefully many of these post-reverse merger SPACs have continued to perform. The recent Chapter 11 filing of Fisker, Inc.,

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Mastering Intent Data: Understanding its Importance & Best Practices

Speaker: Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union

You'll learn how to effectively use it to drive business results, with practical tips on how to leverage both company and contact intent data to maximize your marketing efforts. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a LinkedIn trainer, marketing expert, and certified Google trainer!