During the Bowman Library Colloquia, the Menlo Faculty present their research to the Menlo Community to create a space of collegiality and spark interesting conversations across disciplines. Since its initiation, the Library Colloquia have provided a space for faculty members to present their research on a wide variety of subjects, from the unique characteristics of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley to the ramifications of translated literature in the hyper connected digital world of the modern day.
Dr. Dima Leshchinskii, Associate Professor of Finance, & Sam Baker, Intern of Private Equity Analysis
December 7th, 2020, 5-6PM, Zoom
Summary
This project contributes to a growing body of research studying performance of sustainable companies and investment funds. Earlier research provided evidence that sustainable companies are generally less risky investments. Using 2010-2020 stock market data and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores (ESGs) published by Thomson Reuters Eikon as a proxy for sustainability, we tested the hypothesis that an investment portfolio of more sustainable companies with high ESG scores would have outperformed an investment portfolio of less sustainable companies with low ESG scores on a risk-adjusted basis. Our results seem to reject this hypothesis by showing that the companies with low ESG scores generated higher risk-adjusted returns. This result can be explained either by myopic (short-term) nature of the market which is heavily discounting future benefits of sustainability efforts or by inadequacy of ESG scores as an accurate measure of sustainability.
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Dr. Shalini Gopalkrishnan, Visiting Professor, Business Administration
November 4th, 2020, 12:45-1:45PM, Bowman Library Classroom
Summary
An empirical study of over 2500 firms who have done both and the lessons learned from them using the lens of ambidexterity.
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Dr. Sean Negus, Professor, English
November 18th, 2020, 12:45-1:45PM
Summary
Translation Studies offer diverse methods and critical tools for nonpractitioners of poetry to translate meaning from one language into another often to the neglect of various aesthetic dimensions within a given poetic artifact. The result is lost meaning from both the aesthetic and semantic dimensions of the poem. There are methods, however, for accounting for the aesthetic and expanded contexts of a poetic work in order to preserve and transmit the performative aspects across linguistic borderlands. This translative approach accounts for the preservation of performativity in poetic works. This presentation will share briefly some theoretic descriptions of the process of translation and discuss projects of bilingual literary publishing in transnational digital contexts.
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