proposals on material versus immaterial issues are related to firms' subsequent environmental or social performance and market … document that filing shareholder proposals are related to subsequent improvements in the performance of the company on the … increase performance on immaterial issues in companies with agency problems, low awareness of the materiality of sustainability …

performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms … higher future accounting and stock market performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation … of their organization and the clarity in the path towards that purpose experience better performance …

We use investment-level data to study performance persistence in venture capital (VC). Consistent with prior studies … preferential access raises the quality of subsequent investments, perpetuating performance differences in initial investments …

performance. We found that, on average, this system did not have a significant effect on any outcomes. However, it significantly …