Through our partnership with PriceStats®, we provide high-frequency inflation indices that offer insights into key macroeconomic trends. Under the leadership of pioneer and co-founder Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, and CEO Pilar Iglesias, PriceStats® tracks daily online price fluctuations of millions of items sold by hundreds of retailers worldwide.
Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is the co-director of Fletcher’s Russia and Eurasia program. Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University.
Under the leadership of SSA Founding Partner Ken Froot, Professor Emeritus of the Harvard Business School, we have built a suite of proprietary indicators that model aggregate trends in the flows, holdings, and borrowings of real-money investors and track investor activity across geographies, asset classes, sectors, and styles.
Robin Greenwood, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research at Harvard Business School, joined State Street Associate in 2021. His current research takes a particular focus on "macro-level" market inefficiencies such as asset price bubbles and measuring market frothiness. He has also worked on a range of topics including central bank policy, equity investing, and investor behavior.
We are also pioneers in developing innovative optimization techniques, asset allocation methodologies, and tools to measure and manage tail risk. This research is directed by SSA Founding Partner Mark Kritzman, a prolific author and faculty member at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, Josh Lerner drives our research into private equity investing. His work has focused on a range of practical issues affecting the asset class, and most recently, on the performance of co-investments and alternative vehicles relative to traditional private equity funds.
Through our partnership with MKT MediaStats, we offer a broad array of media sentiment indicators covering companies, countries and currencies and themes. MKT MediaStats was founded by Gideon Ozik, an affiliate professor and research associate at EDHEC Business School, and Ronnie Sadka, Chairperson of the Finance Department at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. Ken Froot is also a founding partner of MKT MediaStats.
The Stewart C. Meyers-Horn Family Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Antionette Schoar is a world-renowned expert in entrepreneurial finance and new financial technologies. Her pathbreaking research on blockchain and cryptocurrency markets offers a highly differentiated view on digital asset trends. She joined State Street Associates in 2021.
George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, joined our team in 2019 to drive a research agenda focused on ESG investing. As the Chair of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School he has been recognized by Barron’s as “one of the most influential people in ESG investing,” for research focused on the materiality of ESG factors to financial performance.
