1.
Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function
Tuck Business School Working Paper No. 01-09; Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 01-01; Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 00-058
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 11 Apr 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
52,078
2.
How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 11 May 2015
Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015
Working Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
42,000
3.
Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings
Forthcoming Review of Finance
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 26 Apr 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Zurich, Department of Banking and Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
40,666
4.
The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Harvard Business School Research Working Paper No. 11-100
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 03 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 01 May 2017
Working Paper Series
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads
20,218
5.
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global Context
Chapter in: Crane, A., Matten, D., and Spence, L.J., 'Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context', 2/e. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 3-26
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 13 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Bath - School of Management, York University - Schulich School of Business and University of London - Royal Holloway College
Downloads
16,412
6.
What is Corporate Law?
Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 300
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 27 Jul 2004
Last Revised: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
16,347
7.
The Essential Elements of Corporate Law
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 387, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper No. 643, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-39, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 134/2009
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
13,799
8.
Managing for Stakeholders
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 30 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Managing for Stakeholders
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 30 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 05 Feb 2014
Downloads
12,240
Managing for Stakeholders
Darden Case No. UVA-E-0383
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 30 May 2017
Last Revised: 10 Nov 2021
Downloads
8
Downloads
12,240
9.
Backdating
Business Lawyer, 2008
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 26 Jul 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Harrison & Held, LLP (deceased)
Downloads
11,867
10.
Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads
11,715
11.
Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices
Journal of Financial Economics 101(3), 621-640, September 2011
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 19 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 19 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting
Downloads
11,112
12.
From the Stockholder to the Stakeholder: How Sustainability Can Drive Financial Outperformance
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 22 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 06 Mar 2015
Working Paper Series
Oxford University - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Arabesque Asset Management and European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE)
Downloads
10,836
13.
Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues
Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 19 Jul 2005
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
10,765
14.
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
Management Science, Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 2835-2857, February 2014
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 25 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
Management Science, Volume 60, Issue 11, pp. 2835-2857, February 2014
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 25 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Downloads
10,740
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
NBER Working Paper No. w17950
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 31 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 20 Jul 2022
Downloads
284
Downloads
10,740
15.
Responsible Investing: The ESG-Efficient Frontier
NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 18 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2020
Working Paper Series
AQR Capital Management, LLC, AQR Capital Management, LLC and AQR Capital Management, LLC
Downloads
10,015
16.
Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 39/2004, Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 04-26, Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 29 Mar 2004
Last Revised: 06 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
There are 4 versions of this paper
Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 39/2004, Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 04-26, Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 29 Mar 2004
Last Revised: 06 May 2009
Downloads
9,885
The Agency Cost of Overvalued Equity and the Current State of Corporate Finance
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-29
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 28 Oct 2004
Downloads
2,171
The Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity and the Current State of Corporate Finance
European Financial Management, Vol. 10, pp. 549-565, December 2004
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 30 Nov 2004
Downloads
31
Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 24 Apr 2005
Downloads
27
Downloads
9,885
17.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Performance
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 16 May 2006
Working Paper Series
University of California, Davis - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Arizona State University-School of Public Affairs
Downloads
8,802
18.
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 06 Jan 2003
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
There are 3 versions of this paper
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 06 Jan 2003
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Downloads
8,136
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
NBER Working Paper No. w9813
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 05 Jul 2003
Last Revised: 25 Apr 2022
Downloads
161
Downloads
8,136
19.
ESG and Financial Performance: Aggregated Evidence from More than 2000 Empirical Studies
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 210-233, 2015, DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2015.1118917
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 19 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, University of Hamburg and University of Hamburg
Downloads
8,090
20.
Corporate Green Bonds
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 27 Feb 2018
Last Revised: 16 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia University
Downloads
7,813
21.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance
Strategic Management Journal, 35 (1): 1-23.
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 25 May 2011
Last Revised: 28 Nov 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Business School, London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads
7,742
22.
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, 27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 133
Posted: 09 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University, Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, 27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33
Number of pages: 133
Posted: 09 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2022
Downloads
7,735
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
NBER Working Paper No. w23255
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 20 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2022
Downloads
195
Downloads
7,735
23.
Agency Problems, Legal Strategies, and Enforcement
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21/2009, Yale Law, Economics & Public Policy Research Paper No. 388, Harvard Law and Economics Research Paper Series No. 644
, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 135/2009
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 21 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 10 Dec 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
7,710
24.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a Model of 'Extended' Corporate Governance: An Explanation Based on the Economic Theories of Social Contract, Reputation and Reciprocal Conformism
LIUC, Ethics, Law and Economics Paper No. 142
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Mar 2004
Working Paper Series
Department of public and sovra-national law, University of Milan
Downloads
7,704
25.
Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 30 Apr 2004
Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
7,621
26.
Corporate Governance, Board Diversity, and Firm Performance
Oklahoma State University Working Paper
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 26 Mar 2002
Working Paper Series
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance and Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Department of Finance
Downloads
7,383
27.
Corporate Governance in India - Evolution and Challenges
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 18 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
O. P. Jindal Global University
Downloads
6,804
28.
Board Structure in the UK and Germany: Convergence or Continuing Divergence?
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 25 Mar 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Downloads
6,801
29.
Corporate Social Responsibility Audit: From Theory to Practice
University of Cambridge, Judge Institute of Management Working Paper No. 14/2004
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 21 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
Independent, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
Downloads
6,582
30.
ESG Shareholder Engagement and Downside Risk
AFA 2018 paper, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 671/2020
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 25 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 11 Jan 2022
Working Paper Series
Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin, University of Reading - ICMA Centre, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and University of Oxford-Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Downloads
6,510
31.
Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
Chapter 8 in Leading Sustainable Change, Oxford University Press, 2014
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 21 Mar 2014
Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Miller Consultants and Harvard Business School
Downloads
6,337
32.
The Other CSR: Consumer Social Responsibility
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2006, Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 17 May 2006
Last Revised: 28 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Melbourne Business School, Suffolk University - Sawyer School of Management and University of Sydney - Centre for the Mind
Downloads
5,997
33.
The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007
Number of pages: 111
Posted: 04 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices
ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007
Number of pages: 111
Posted: 04 Sep 2006
Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
Downloads
5,835
The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 323
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 23 Jan 2008
Downloads
540
Downloads
5,835
34.
The Relationship between McClelland’s Theory of Needs, Feeling Individually Accountable, and Informal Accountability for Others
International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 21-42
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 05 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Valdosta State University and Florida State University
Downloads
5,794
35.
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 19 Jun 2002
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
There are 3 versions of this paper
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 19 Jun 2002
Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Downloads
5,737
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
NBER Working Paper No. w9068
Number of pages: 101
Posted: 20 Jul 2002
Last Revised: 13 Apr 2022
Downloads
166
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
Number of pages: 103
Posted: 30 Oct 2002
Downloads
37
Downloads
5,737
36.
Was the 2008 Financial Crisis Caused by a Lack of Corporate Ethics?
Global Journal of Business Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 77-84, 2010
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 05 Jul 2010
Accepted Paper Series
National University, National University, National University and National University
Downloads
5,661
37.
Video: The Three Foundations of A Great Life, Great Leadership, and A Great Organization
Barbados Group Working Paper No. 11-04, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Research Paper No. 11-122
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 10 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Working Paper Series
Independent and Harvard Business School
Downloads
5,619
38.
Sustainability Leadership: Linking Theory and Practice
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 21 Oct 2011
Working Paper Series
Antwerp Management School and University of Cambridge - Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
Downloads
5,472
39.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 03 Dec 2005
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 03 Dec 2005
Downloads
5,392
Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 683-717, Fall 2007
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 26 Jul 2007
Downloads
28
Downloads
5,392
40.
Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance
Organization Science, 30(1), pp.1-18
Number of pages: 164
Posted: 18 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 30 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Wharton School, University of Penn, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
5,343
41.
Science, Specific Knowledge, and Total Quality Management
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 1997
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 29 Jan 1998
Accepted Paper Series
Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
5,321
42.
Why is Corporate Virtue in the Eye of the Beholder? The Case of ESG Ratings
The Accounting Review,
https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2019-0506
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 12 Apr 2021
Last Revised: 19 Aug 2021
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oregon, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads
5,153
43.
Corporate Social Responsibility: An Issues Paper
International Labour Office Working Paper No. 27
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 25 Jul 2006
Working Paper Series
International Labour Organization (ILO) - Policy Integration Department
Downloads
5,039
44.
An Empirical Analysis of the Strategic Use of Corporate Social Responsibility
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 11 May 2006
Working Paper Series
Arizona State University-School of Public Affairs and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
An Empirical Analysis of the Strategic Use of Corporate Social Responsibility
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 11 May 2006
Downloads
5,015
An Empirical Analysis of the Strategic Use of Corporate Social Responsibility
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 773-792, Fall 2007
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 26 Jul 2007
Downloads
20
Downloads
5,015
45.
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect The Performance of Firms?
FEEM Working Paper No. 52.2009
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 09 Aug 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Brescia - Department of Economics and University of Ferrara
There are 2 versions of this paper
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect The Performance of Firms?
FEEM Working Paper No. 52.2009
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 09 Aug 2009
Downloads
4,943
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?
FEEM Working Paper No. 53.2012
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 06 Aug 2012
Downloads
457
Downloads
4,943
46.
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Superior Financial Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 14 Sep 2012
Last Revised: 27 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
Columbia University
Downloads
4,932
47.
Is Earnings Quality Associated with Corporate Social Responsibility?
Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 31 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 04 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) - School of Business and Virginia Commonwealth University
Downloads
4,908
48.
'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility
Academy of Management Review
Vol. 33, No. 2
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 21 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
York University - Schulich School of Business and Nottingham University Business School (NUBS)
Downloads
4,905
49.
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts’ Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics
Strategic Management Journal, Volume 36, Issue 7, pp. 1053-1081, July 2015
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 17 Nov 2009
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard Business School
Downloads
4,785
50.
What's a Director to Do?
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-38
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 17 Feb 2004
Accepted Paper Series
The Monitor Company and Harvard Business School
Downloads
4,738
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