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
49,843
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
41,252
3.
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
15,807
4.
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
14,371
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
12,888
6.
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
12,714
7.
Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 20 Aug 2019
Last Revised: 18 May 2020
Working 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
11,970
8.
Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 05 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
Downloads
11,431
9.
Backdating
Business Lawyer, 2008
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Harrison & Held, LLP
Downloads
11,041
10.
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
10,530
11.
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
10,182
12.
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
9,965
Managing for Stakeholders
Darden Case No. UVA-E-0383
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 30 May 2017
Last Revised: 22 Jan 2019
Downloads
6
Downloads
9,965
13.
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
9,505
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
2,000
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
28
Agency Costs of Overvalued Equity
Financial Management, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 24 Apr 2005
Downloads
20
Downloads
9,505
14.
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
Downloads
8,378
15.
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
8,344
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
NBER Working Paper No. w17950
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 31 Mar 2012
Downloads
166
Downloads
8,344
16.
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
7,916
Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
NBER Working Paper No. w9813
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 05 Jul 2003
Last Revised: 26 Aug 2003
Downloads
125
Downloads
7,916
17.
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
7,345
18.
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
7,257
19.
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
7,139
20.
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
7,025
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
6,658
22.
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
6,494
23.
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
6,240
24.
Corporate Governance in India - Evolution and Challenges
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 18 Jan 2005
Working Paper Series
OP Jindal Global University
Downloads
6,085
25.
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
5,675
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: 27 Oct 2009
Downloads
143
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
Number of pages: 103
Posted: 30 Oct 2002
Downloads
34
Downloads
5,675
26.
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 Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Downloads
5,648
27.
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49
Number of pages: 101
Posted: 09 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 27 Jun 2019
Working Paper Series
Duke University, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
27th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Paper, Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2016-33, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 16-49
Number of pages: 101
Posted: 09 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 27 Jun 2019
Downloads
5,515
Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
NBER Working Paper No. w23255
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 20 Mar 2017
Downloads
132
Downloads
5,515
28.
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
5,502
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
499
Downloads
5,502
29.
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
5,442
30.
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
5,440
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
5,397
32.
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
5,227
33.
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
5,197
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
23
Downloads
5,197
34.
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
5,180
35.
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
Boston University
Downloads
5,178
36.
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
5,112
37.
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 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
4,973
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
18
Downloads
4,973
38.
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
4,833
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?
FEEM Working Paper No. 53.2012
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 06 Aug 2012
Downloads
447
Downloads
4,833
39.
'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
4,763
40.
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
4,741
41.
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
4,679
42.
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
4,639
43.
The Enron Scandal (Slides)
Number of pages: 101
Posted: 04 Jun 2007
Last Revised: 14 May 2009
Working Paper Series
Hodak Value Advisors
Downloads
4,458
44.
Agency Problems and Legal Strategies
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 13 Dec 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
4,425
45.
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
4,398
46.
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, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Harvard Business School
Downloads
4,385
47.
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
4,368
48.
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
Boston University
Downloads
4,243
49.
Why Do Corporate Managers Misstate Financial Statements? the Role of Option Compensation and Other Factors
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 06 May 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Arlington, University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business and Texas A&M University - Mays Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
Why Do Corporate Managers Misstate Financial Statements? the Role of Option Compensation and Other Factors
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 06 May 2005
Downloads
4,206
Why do Corporate Managers Misstate Financial Statements? The Role of Option Compensation and Other Factors
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 667-708, September
Posted: 08 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 19 Feb 2008
Downloads
4,206
50.
Modeling the Message: Communicating Compliance Through Organizational Values and Culture
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2012
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 13 Oct 2012
Last Revised: 12 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Bryan Cave LLP
Downloads
4,193
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