Winner
"The Wages of Social Responsibility"
Meir Statman and Denys Glushkov
Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business
Honorable Mention
"The Performance of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds: The Role of Fees and Management Companies"
Javier Gil-Bazo, Pablo Ruiz-Verdu, and Andre A. P. Santos
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Winner
"Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices"
Alex Edmans
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Winner
"Monitoring the Monitor: Evaluating CalPERS' Shareholder Activism"
Brad Barber
University of California at Davis
Winner
"The Economic Value of Corporate Eco-Efficiency"
Nadja Guenster, Jeroen Derwall, Rob Bauer and Kees Koedijk
Erasmus University
Honorable Mention
"Socially Responsible Indexes: Composition, performance, and tracking errors"
Meir Statman
Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business
Winner
"Corporate social and financial performance: A meta-analysis"
Marc Orlitzky, Frank L. Schmidt, and Sara L. Rynes
University of
Sydney & University of
Iowa
Winner
"Corruption and International Valuation: Does Virtue Pay?"
Charles M.C. Lee and David T. Ng
Cornell University
Honorable Mention
"Investing in Socially Responsible Mutual Funds"
Christopher C. Geszy, Robert F. Stambaugh, and David Levin
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Winner
"International Evidence on Ethical Mutual Fund Performance and Investment Style"
Rob Bauer, Kees Koedijk, and Roger Otten
University of Maastricht & Tilburg University
Winner
"Do Corporate Environmental Standards Create or Destroy Market Value?"
Glen Dowell, Stuart Hart, and Bernard Yeung
Notre Dame University, University of North Carolina, New York University
Honorable Mention
"Socially Responsible Investment Screening: Strong Evidence of No Significant Cost for Actively Managed Portfolios"
Bernell K. Stone, John B. Guerard, Jr., Mustafa N. Gultekin, and Greg Adams
Brigham Young University & University of North Carolina
Winner
"Pure Profit: The Financial Implications of Environmental Performance"
Robert Repetto and Duncan Austin
World Resources Institute
Siew Hong Teoh, Ivo Welch, and C. Paul Wazzan
University of California - Irvine,
Brown University,
& LECG, LLC
Winner
"A Resource-Based Perspective on Corporate Environmental Performance and Profitability"
Michael V. Russo and Paul A. Fouts
University of Oregon & Golden Gate University
Winner
"Finding the Link Between Stakeholder Relations and Quality of Management"
Sandra A. Waddock and Samuel B. Graves
Boston College
Winner
"Is There a Cost to Being Socially Responsible in Investing?"
John B. Guerard