Alex Edmans

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Professor of Finance, non-executive director, author, TED speaker

London, England, United Kingdom
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  • The Responsible Business Debates of 2021

    While responsible business might seem like a bandwagon everyone's jumping on, the issues are much more nuanced with…

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  • The Link Between Music Choices and Stock Returns

    My new paper, co-authored with Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Alexandre Garel, and Ivan Indriawan, and forthcoming in the…

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  • Mindset Lessons From a Royal Marine

    Yesterday I was delighted to welcome Jay Copley as a guest speaker in my London Business School class on Time…

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  • Responsible Investing in a Time of Crisis

    What does it mean to be a responsible investor in a time of crisis? In my first article in this series, “Responsible…

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  • Responsible Business in a Time of Crisis

    What does it mean to be a responsible business in a time of crisis? We’ve seen some incredible responses to COVID-19…

  • What to Trust in a Post-Truth World: COVID-19 and the Virus of Misinformation

    The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016 was “post-truth”. There was a huge range of unsupported claims on…

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  • Responsible Business in 28 Tweets

    On 6 April, I did a Twitter discussion on my book, hosted by Blackwell’s Bookshop. They asked me to start by providing…

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  • Why the UK Should Stay in the EU

    Today is perhaps the biggest decision the UK will ever face. Under 18s will be most affected by this decision but can't…

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  • Why Organizations Cannot Thrive Without Purpose

    How should businesses make decisions? The textbook answer is to do a calculation – to trade off the costs and benefits.…

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  • Do Financial Markets Matter For The Real Economy?

    (This article was originally published in the Huffington Post). After a frustrating 2015, the start of 2016 has been…

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