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From the Ted Talk by Vinay Shandal: How conscious investors can turn up the heat and make companies change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


"Hey, pass me your cell pnohe. I'll give you a discount code. Let me give you a discount code."

We've all been — Folks, I have jumped out of moving Uber Pools.

(Laughter)

Just, mvnoig, highway, I'm out. I'm out.

But we've got to fivroge the hipsters, we need to love the hpetrsis. We need hipsters, and we need ciponemas like Adidas, and what we need most is for investors to convince other companies to bheave like Adidas.

And herein lies the challenge. There's a gonwrig group of investors, call them "conscious investors." csnocoius investors care about ESG issues. And they talk a lot about engaging management on ESG issues. But they don't actually get management to make changes that will improve the environment and society. And this is where conscious investors can take a page from the playbook of the activist investors, because the avscitit investors have no issues getting mgnanmeeat to make changes. They have no issues turning up the heat.

Open Cloze


"Hey, pass me your cell _____. I'll give you a discount code. Let me give you a discount code."

We've all been — Folks, I have jumped out of moving Uber Pools.

(Laughter)

Just, ______, highway, I'm out. I'm out.

But we've got to _______ the hipsters, we need to love the ________. We need hipsters, and we need _________ like Adidas, and what we need most is for investors to convince other companies to ______ like Adidas.

And herein lies the challenge. There's a _______ group of investors, call them "conscious investors." _________ investors care about ESG issues. And they talk a lot about engaging management on ESG issues. But they don't actually get management to make changes that will improve the environment and society. And this is where conscious investors can take a page from the playbook of the activist investors, because the ________ investors have no issues getting __________ to make changes. They have no issues turning up the heat.

Solution


  1. companies
  2. hipsters
  3. management
  4. forgive
  5. conscious
  6. growing
  7. activist
  8. moving
  9. phone
  10. behave

Original Text


"Hey, pass me your cell phone. I'll give you a discount code. Let me give you a discount code."

We've all been — Folks, I have jumped out of moving Uber Pools.

(Laughter)

Just, moving, highway, I'm out. I'm out.

But we've got to forgive the hipsters, we need to love the hipsters. We need hipsters, and we need companies like Adidas, and what we need most is for investors to convince other companies to behave like Adidas.

And herein lies the challenge. There's a growing group of investors, call them "conscious investors." Conscious investors care about ESG issues. And they talk a lot about engaging management on ESG issues. But they don't actually get management to make changes that will improve the environment and society. And this is where conscious investors can take a page from the playbook of the activist investors, because the activist investors have no issues getting management to make changes. They have no issues turning up the heat.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
conscious investors 7
esg issues 4
esg performance 3
financial performance 3
barry rosenstein 2
wall street 2
good corporate 2
clear correlation 2
making money 2
plastic waste 2
paul singer 2
million dollars 2
navy officers 2
conscious investor 2
greener world 2
increasingly vocal 2
senior investment 2
investment professional 2
junior person 2
company underperforms 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
senior investment professional 2

Important Words


  1. activist
  2. adidas
  3. behave
  4. call
  5. care
  6. cell
  7. challenge
  8. code
  9. companies
  10. conscious
  11. convince
  12. discount
  13. engaging
  14. environment
  15. esg
  16. folks
  17. forgive
  18. give
  19. group
  20. growing
  21. heat
  22. highway
  23. hipsters
  24. improve
  25. investors
  26. issues
  27. jumped
  28. laughter
  29. lies
  30. lot
  31. love
  32. management
  33. moving
  34. page
  35. pass
  36. phone
  37. playbook
  38. pools
  39. society
  40. talk
  41. turning
  42. uber