Fabrizio Ferraro
@fferraro.bsky.social
Professor of Strategic Management at IESE Business School. Studying ESG and Impact Investing before it was cool (or hated). Opinions expressed are my own.
http://blog.iese.edu/ferraro/
http://blog.iese.edu/ferraro/
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Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
January 30, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
Reposted by Fabrizio Ferraro
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Congestion pricing works! Not really a surprise. Now I hope we'll do it in Barcelona too🙏 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed.
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Congestion pricing works! Not really a surprise. Now I hope we'll do it in Barcelona too🙏 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I spent 2025 reading about reactionary thought. Then I realized: the rhetoric never changes, only the target. Logged 21 books across multiple languages this year. Some reflections on the ones I keep thinking about.
Full post: bit.ly/4aPWG5P 🧵
I spent 2025 reading about reactionary thought. Then I realized: the rhetoric never changes, only the target. Logged 21 books across multiple languages this year. Some reflections on the ones I keep thinking about.
Full post: bit.ly/4aPWG5P 🧵
January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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I spent 2025 reading about reactionary thought. Then I realized: the rhetoric never changes, only the target. Logged 21 books across multiple languages this year. Some reflections on the ones I keep thinking about.
Full post: bit.ly/4aPWG5P 🧵
I spent 2025 reading about reactionary thought. Then I realized: the rhetoric never changes, only the target. Logged 21 books across multiple languages this year. Some reflections on the ones I keep thinking about.
Full post: bit.ly/4aPWG5P 🧵
The 3rd Edition of the online BS4CL Global PhD Course: Organizing the Climate Transition will take place from January 22 to April 9, 2026.
FREE access for PhD students.
Apply by December 20, 2025!
www.iese.edu/faculty-rese...
FREE access for PhD students.
Apply by December 20, 2025!
www.iese.edu/faculty-rese...
Organizing the Climate Transition
This global PhD course prepares the next generation of scholars to generate impactful, in-depth knowledge about the climate transition.
www.iese.edu
December 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The 3rd Edition of the online BS4CL Global PhD Course: Organizing the Climate Transition will take place from January 22 to April 9, 2026.
FREE access for PhD students.
Apply by December 20, 2025!
www.iese.edu/faculty-rese...
FREE access for PhD students.
Apply by December 20, 2025!
www.iese.edu/faculty-rese...
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New study in Nature on the Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'We find that 354 million (277–421 million) people in North America and Europe were exposed to daily PM2.5 air pollution caused by Canadian wildfires in 2023'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'We find that 354 million (277–421 million) people in North America and Europe were exposed to daily PM2.5 air pollution caused by Canadian wildfires in 2023'
September 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
New study in Nature on the Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'We find that 354 million (277–421 million) people in North America and Europe were exposed to daily PM2.5 air pollution caused by Canadian wildfires in 2023'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
'We find that 354 million (277–421 million) people in North America and Europe were exposed to daily PM2.5 air pollution caused by Canadian wildfires in 2023'
“The (climate) transition is deeply political – a struggle of competing interests over its pace, direction, and even possibility.” — @laurencetubiana.bsky.social
Her words echo our research with Dror Etzion and @joelgehman.bsky.social on robust action.
www.linkedin.com/posts/fferra...
Her words echo our research with Dror Etzion and @joelgehman.bsky.social on robust action.
www.linkedin.com/posts/fferra...
“The transition is deeply political – a struggle of competing interests over its pace, its direction, and whether it happens at all.” Laurence Tubiana
Laurence Tubiana’s recent message is a powerful…...
“The transition is deeply political – a struggle of competing interests over its pace, its direction, and whether it happens at all.” Laurence Tubiana
Laurence Tubiana’s recent message is a powerful ...
www.linkedin.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“The (climate) transition is deeply political – a struggle of competing interests over its pace, direction, and even possibility.” — @laurencetubiana.bsky.social
Her words echo our research with Dror Etzion and @joelgehman.bsky.social on robust action.
www.linkedin.com/posts/fferra...
Her words echo our research with Dror Etzion and @joelgehman.bsky.social on robust action.
www.linkedin.com/posts/fferra...
Very interesting model, which I hope will grow more across Europe.
A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.
A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.
A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.
Nonprofits are offering cut-price apartments as a way of combating the housing affordability crisis.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Very interesting model, which I hope will grow more across Europe.
A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.
A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.
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I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:
How to Make a Functionalist Argument
Article: How to Make a Functionalist Argument | Sociological Science | Posted August 14, 2025
sociologicalscience.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:
Looks like a good list to organize boycotts
www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...
www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...
Scoop: White House hands down loyalty ratings for hundreds of companies
The unusual scorecard fits this administration's habit of micromanaging companies and administering loyalty tests.
www.axios.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Looks like a good list to organize boycotts
www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...
www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
www.science.org
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Scientists’ role in defending democracy | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The @economist.com must live in an alternative universe where the Partido Popular is “moderate” 😂 and the confrontation was caused by Pedro Sanchez (and not the PP who has mounted a lawfare campaign)! 🤬
Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down
Pedro Sánchez needs to let his country’s democracy renew itself
economist.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The @economist.com must live in an alternative universe where the Partido Popular is “moderate” 😂 and the confrontation was caused by Pedro Sanchez (and not the PP who has mounted a lawfare campaign)! 🤬
Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Important findings for those with ME/CFS. Let's hope that more research might help find a cure as well 🙏https://on.ft.com/3J1vFjX
Chronic fatigue patients have different genes, study finds
‘Groundbreaking’ research finds ‘genetic signals’ for debilitating illness
on.ft.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Important findings for those with ME/CFS. Let's hope that more research might help find a cure as well 🙏https://on.ft.com/3J1vFjX
Honored to see our research with Matteo Prato cited in @economist.com AI talent war article. We found hiring “stars” can actually hurt team performance—especially for non-stars—as stars often absorb more resources than they share.
www.economist.com/business/202...
doi.org/10.1287/orsc...
www.economist.com/business/202...
doi.org/10.1287/orsc...
Are superstars as good when they move jobs?
The AI-talent scramble raises an old question
www.economist.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Honored to see our research with Matteo Prato cited in @economist.com AI talent war article. We found hiring “stars” can actually hurt team performance—especially for non-stars—as stars often absorb more resources than they share.
www.economist.com/business/202...
doi.org/10.1287/orsc...
www.economist.com/business/202...
doi.org/10.1287/orsc...
Michael Bloomberg: "Not every life can be spared from climate change, unfortunately, but many more could be saved if elected officials stopped pretending that they’re powerless to do anything about it."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism
Elected officials must be held accountable, now and in the future, for the lives lost in disasters brought on by increasingly extreme weather.
www.bloomberg.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Michael Bloomberg: "Not every life can be spared from climate change, unfortunately, but many more could be saved if elected officials stopped pretending that they’re powerless to do anything about it."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Kickstarter campaign from one of the most creative video game studios in Barcelona - Check out GodsTV - Fight for clout in this fame show arena roguelike by Melbot Studios on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mel...
GodsTV - Fight for clout in this fame show arena roguelike
A hilarious action game set in a madcap, 90's-throwback TV world where fame is a weapon.
www.kickstarter.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Kickstarter campaign from one of the most creative video game studios in Barcelona - Check out GodsTV - Fight for clout in this fame show arena roguelike by Melbot Studios on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mel...
Great start of EGOS conference in Athens with Max Richter's concert at the Odeon in the Akropolis! @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Great start of EGOS conference in Athens with Max Richter's concert at the Odeon in the Akropolis! @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social
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Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:
A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.
June 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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and the most published one of the new batch is a statistician who famously wanted to go for herd immunity instead of vaccines 🤬
June 15, 2025 at 7:51 PM
and the most published one of the new batch is a statistician who famously wanted to go for herd immunity instead of vaccines 🤬
I am watching Andor - a Star Wars spinoff - and in one of the episode the Empire create a situation where protesters and poorly trained young soldiers are put in the same small square. A powder keg which predictably ends with violence...eerily familiar these days 😡
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A.
via @swholocron.bsky.social
via @swholocron.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I am watching Andor - a Star Wars spinoff - and in one of the episode the Empire create a situation where protesters and poorly trained young soldiers are put in the same small square. A powder keg which predictably ends with violence...eerily familiar these days 😡
Good review but the author could have noticed the irony that Trump is the product of this unholy alliance between antielites and ultra-elites! The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape - on.ft.com/3FKSirx
The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape
Two wonderfully detailed books explore the widening gap between the super-elites and everyone else
on.ft.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Good review but the author could have noticed the irony that Trump is the product of this unholy alliance between antielites and ultra-elites! The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape - on.ft.com/3FKSirx
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this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .
How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time
OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.
data4democracy.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .
Is there a future for responsible investment beyond ESG?
I’ll be sparring (constructively!) with Tariq Fancy (bio: stanford.io/3RNVd5c) May 12th at @iese.bsky.social
Join us as we explore what went wrong with ESG—and what comes next.
alumni.iese.edu/events/173999
apply.iese.edu/the-rise-and...
I’ll be sparring (constructively!) with Tariq Fancy (bio: stanford.io/3RNVd5c) May 12th at @iese.bsky.social
Join us as we explore what went wrong with ESG—and what comes next.
alumni.iese.edu/events/173999
apply.iese.edu/the-rise-and...
Tariq Fancy
www.gsb.stanford.edu
May 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Is there a future for responsible investment beyond ESG?
I’ll be sparring (constructively!) with Tariq Fancy (bio: stanford.io/3RNVd5c) May 12th at @iese.bsky.social
Join us as we explore what went wrong with ESG—and what comes next.
alumni.iese.edu/events/173999
apply.iese.edu/the-rise-and...
I’ll be sparring (constructively!) with Tariq Fancy (bio: stanford.io/3RNVd5c) May 12th at @iese.bsky.social
Join us as we explore what went wrong with ESG—and what comes next.
alumni.iese.edu/events/173999
apply.iese.edu/the-rise-and...
“The strongest demand for stocks seems to be coming from retail investors in America, who like to “buy the dip”. Some of them could be allowing their investment in Mr Trump at the ballot box to cloud their financial judgment.” If this true it will crash again…
economist.com/leaders/2025...
economist.com/leaders/2025...
Investors’ risky bet: they can shrug off the trade war
The relief they are banking on needs to come fast
economist.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“The strongest demand for stocks seems to be coming from retail investors in America, who like to “buy the dip”. Some of them could be allowing their investment in Mr Trump at the ballot box to cloud their financial judgment.” If this true it will crash again…
economist.com/leaders/2025...
economist.com/leaders/2025...