Want to lift your firm’s share price? Employ more women
Morgan Stanley researchers found that diverse companies outperformed even after controlling for size, yield, profitability and risk
14 August 2019 - 17:10
London — Employing more women brings a stock market boost, according to Morgan Stanley research on how diversity links to share prices.
Annual returns for businesses that employ the highest proportion of women were 2.8 percentage points above those for the least diverse firms over the past eight years, the report published Tuesday said...
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