1.
Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure
Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 3, No. 4, 1976
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 19 Jul 1998
Last Revised: 11 Apr 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads
139,939
2.
A Stakeholder Approach to Strategic Management
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 16 Mar 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads
65,567
3.
Agency Cost of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers
American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1986
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 25 Mar 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
Downloads
49,003
4.
Corporate Governance and Control
Number of pages: 128
Posted: 31 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB), Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Economics and Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
Downloads
41,535
5.
Separation of Ownership and Control
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, and Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
40,064
6.
A Sober Look at SPACs
Yale Journal on Regulation, 2022, Volume 39, Issue 1., Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 559, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 20-48, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 746/2021
Number of pages: 96
Posted: 16 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 25 Jan 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
38,339
7.
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
There are 2 versions of this paper
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 783-827, February 2009, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 491 (2004)
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 21 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2009
Downloads
35,886
What Matters in Corporate Governance?
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 783-827, 2009
Posted: 25 Jan 2009
Downloads
35,886
8.
Value Based Management: Economic Value Added or Cash Value Added?
FWC AB Study No. 1997:3
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 05 Apr 1999
Working Paper Series
Weissenrieder & Co AB
Downloads
35,229
9.
Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 27 Sep 2004
Working Paper Series
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads
34,025
10.
A Checklist for Reviewing a Paper
Duke I&E Research Paper No. 2017-03, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-6
Number of pages: 2
Posted: 21 Dec 2016
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2020
Working Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Marshall School of Business, USC
Downloads
31,609
11.
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 107-155, February 2003
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Sep 2001
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale School of Management
There are 3 versions of this paper
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. 107-155, February 2003
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 12 Sep 2001
Downloads
31,360
Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
NBER Working Paper No. w8449
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 26 Aug 2001
Last Revised: 02 Feb 2022
Downloads
549
Downloads
31,360
12.
Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-28; ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 44/2004
Number of pages: 116
Posted: 05 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business
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28,316
13.
Economic Consequences of Financial Reporting and Disclosure Regulation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 13 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 07 May 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business
Downloads
24,356
14.
Executive Compensation
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 19 May 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
20,846
15.
International Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 30 Jul 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh - Katz School of Business and Purdue University
Downloads
19,404
16.
Eclipse of the Public Corporation
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (Sept.-Oct. 1989), revised 1997.
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 03 May 1999
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School
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18,514
17.
DeFi and the Future of Finance
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 15 Dec 2020
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Independent and Fei Protocol
Downloads
18,050
18.
Corporate Governance and Earnings Management
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 29 Jun 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Sfax, Université Laval - École de comptabilité and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Faculty of Economics and Management
Downloads
17,834
19.
Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance
Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 32, No. 1-3, 2001
Number of pages: 115
Posted: 28 Apr 2002
Last Revised: 17 May 2021
Accepted Paper Series
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Financial Accounting Information and Corporate Governance
Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 32, No. 1-3, 2001
Number of pages: 115
Posted: 28 Apr 2002
Last Revised: 17 May 2021
Downloads
16,993
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16,993
20.
CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Harvard Business Review, No. 3, May-June 1990
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 12 Apr 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Harvard Business Review, No. 3, May-June 1990
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 12 Apr 1999
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16,816
CEO Incentives - It's Not How Much You Pay, But How
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 64-76, Winter 2010
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Downloads
15
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16,816
21.
Performance of Private Equity Funds
EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 07 Aug 2005
Last Revised: 28 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School and HEC Paris - Strategy & Business Policy
Downloads
16,694
22.
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Working Paper Series
University of Florida - Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
There are 3 versions of this paper
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing and Allocations
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-01
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 09 Jan 2002
Downloads
16,218
A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations
NBER Working Paper No. w8805
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 21 Feb 2002
Last Revised: 23 Jan 2022
Downloads
291
Downloads
16,218
23.
Investor Protection and Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 27 Jul 2000
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School, Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
There are 4 versions of this paper
Investor Protection and Corporate Governance
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 27 Jul 2000
Downloads
16,097
Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
NBER Working Paper No. w7403
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 26 Jul 2000
Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Downloads
852
Downloads
16,097
24.
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
16,080
25.
Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership
Journal of Finance, 73(4), 2018
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 22 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 13 May 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance and Charles River Associates (CRA)
Downloads
15,881
26.
Evidence on Eva
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 1999
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 20 Sep 1999
Accepted Paper Series
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Claremont Colleges - Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management
Downloads
15,841
27.
Agency Problems and Residual Claims
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads
15,516
28.
Theory of Capital Structure - a Review
FRIHET OG MANGFOLD, FESTSSKRIFT TIL ODD, G. Arntzen. L. Fallan & O. Gustafsson, eds., Trondheim: Tapir/TØH, Tapir Academic Press, NO-7005 Trondheim, Norway
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 17 Jun 2004
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
NTNU Business School - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Downloads
15,251
29.
The Market for Corporate Control: The Scientific Evidence
Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 11, pp. 5-50, 1983
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 31 Aug 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads
14,797
30.
It Governance on One Page
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 09 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
Downloads
14,647
31.
A New Model of Integrity: An Actionable Pathway to Trust, Productivity and Value (PDF File of Keynote Slides)
Barbados Group Working Paper No. 07-01, Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 07-01, 1st IESE Conference on "Humanizing the Firm and the Management Profession" Presentation
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 20 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 11 Dec 2012
Working Paper Series
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLCVanto Group
Downloads
14,566
32.
Stockholder, Manager, and Creditor Interests: Applications of Agency Theory
Theory of the Firm (Book), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2000
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 11 Oct 2000
Last Revised: 26 Feb 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School and Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester
Downloads
14,466
33.
The Fall of Enron
Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-38
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 17 Oct 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads
14,416
34.
The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems
Michael C. Jensen, A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000; Journal of Finance, July 1993
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 09 May 1999
Last Revised: 14 Sep 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 1994
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 07 May 2004
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1,351
The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 43-58, Winter 2010
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Downloads
13
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14,411
35.
Predicting Material Accounting Misstatements
Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming, AAA 2008 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 30 Jun 2007
Last Revised: 24 May 2010
Accepted Paper Series
USC Marshall School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Houston - Department of Accountancy & Taxation and University of Southern California - Leventhal School of Accounting
Downloads
14,299
36.
Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the United States: An Analysis of Economic and Policy Factors
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 11 Mar 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Boston University Questrom School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the United States: An Analysis of Economic and Policy Factors
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 11 Mar 2009
Downloads
14,235
Global Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS by the U.S. (Part I): Conceptual Underpinnings and Economic Analysis
Accounting Horizons, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 355-394, 2010
Posted: 10 Sep 2010
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14,235
37.
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 07 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Emory University Goizueta Business School
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 802, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, pp. 1085-1156, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-66
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 07 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Downloads
13,807
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
NBER Working Paper No. w21227
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 08 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 03 Jul 2021
Downloads
187
Downloads
13,807
38.
Does it Pay to Be Good...And Does it Matter? A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Corporate Social and Financial Performance
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 21 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads
13,647
39.
Valuing ESG: Doing Good or Sounding Good?
NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 19 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA and New York University - Stern School of Business
Downloads
13,645
40.
Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 11 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 21 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Marshall School of Business, USC
Downloads
13,587
41.
New Evidence and Perspectives on Mergers
Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 01-070, HBS Finance Working Paper No. 01-070
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 23 May 2001
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads
13,165
42.
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
post-publication version, published in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 86/2005, KDI School of Pub Policy & Management Paper No. 02-04, McCombs Research Paper Series No. 02-05, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 237, U of Texas law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 26
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 20 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Korea University - Department of Finance and Korea University Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
post-publication version, published in Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 86/2005, KDI School of Pub Policy & Management Paper No. 02-04, McCombs Research Paper Series No. 02-05, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 237, U of Texas law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 26
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 20 Jan 2005
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2018
Downloads
12,296
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
nearly final pre-publication version, published in Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 22, 366-413 (2006)
Number of pages: 73
Posted: 29 Jun 2012
Last Revised: 11 Jul 2012
Downloads
249
Does Corporate Governance Predict Firms' Market Values? Evidence from Korea
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 366-413, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Downloads
12,296
43.
Regulating Bankers' Pay
Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 247-287, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 641
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 30 May 2009
Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
12,289
44.
Market Risk Premium and Risk Free Rate Used for 51 Countries in 2013: A Survey with 6,237 Answers
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 15 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 27 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
IESE Business School, IESE Business School and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
Downloads
11,943
45.
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 41-46, Winter 2002
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 17 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
The Monitor Company and Harvard Business School
There are 3 versions of this paper
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 41-46, Winter 2002
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 17 Jan 2002
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Downloads
11,873
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, Winter 2010, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-090
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 05 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Downloads
2,785
Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 59-63, Winter 2010
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Downloads
12
Downloads
11,873
46.
The Laws of the Virtual Worlds
California Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 100
Posted: 29 May 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Rutgers School of Law and Faculty of Law, QUT
Downloads
11,444
47.
The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance
Cornell Law Review, Volume 106, 2020, pp. 91-178, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No.1052, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Working Paper 2020-1
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 27 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 24 Mar 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads
11,296
48.
Earnings Management and Corporate Governance: The Roles of the Board and the Audit Committee
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 22 Mar 2002
Working Paper Series
Southern Illinois University - Department of Finance, Southern Illinois University - Department of Finance and Susquehanna University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Earnings Management and Corporate Governance: The Roles of the Board and the Audit Committee
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 22 Mar 2002
Downloads
11,104
Downloads
11,104
49.
Compensation and Incentives: Practice vs. Theory
Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Finance, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 593-616, July 1998
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 24 Sep 1998
Accepted Paper Series
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads
11,080
50.
Transparency, Financial Accounting Information, and Corporate Governance
Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2003
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 07 Sep 2005
Accepted Paper Series
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
10,955
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