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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: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 129,367
2.

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
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 46,145
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
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 43,741
4.

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
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads 35,694
5.

Integrity: Without it Nothing Works

Rotman Magazine: The Magazine of the Rotman School of Management, pp. 16-20, Fall 2009, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-042, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 09-04, Simon School Working Paper No. FR 10-01
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 22 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 35,411
6.

The Nature of Man

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 4-19, Summer 1994
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Nov 1997 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 33,893
7.

Course Materials for: ‘Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model’

Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 09-038, Simon School Working Paper No. 08-03, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 08-02
Number of pages: 1262 Posted: 04 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2018
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Jeri Echeverria
Independent, Harvard Business School, Landmark Worldwide LLC and California State University Office of the Chancellor

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Downloads 28,223
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The Sixth and Seventh of Eight Pre-Classroom Readings, 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model'

Harvard Business School Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit Research Paper Series No. 10-091, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 08-01, Simon School Working Paper No. 08-02, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference 2009: Law, Behavior & the Brain
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 30 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 22 May 2018
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Jeri Echeverria
Independent, Harvard Business School, Landmark Worldwide LLC and California State University Office of the Chancellor
Downloads 27,549
9.

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
Paul A. Gompers, Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale School of Management

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Downloads 26,291
10.

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
Michael C. Jensen, Kevin J. Murphy and Eric G. Wruck
Harvard Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business
Downloads 25,704
11.

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson
Harvard Business School and Acorn Systems, Inc.
Downloads 23,986
12.

A Review of the Earnings Management Literature and its Implications for Standard Setting

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Mar 1999
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Paul M. Healy and James Michael Wahlen
Harvard Business School and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Accounting
Downloads 23,174
13.

Making Experience Count: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 14-093, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 14-093, HEC Paris Research Paper No. SPE-2016-1181
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
Downloads 21,389
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Self Interest, Altruism, Incentives, and Agency Theory

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal Of Applied Corporate Finance, Summer 1994
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Oct 1994
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 19,449
15.

Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality -- Abridged (English Language Version)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-061, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-01, Simon School Working Paper No. 10-07
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC

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Downloads 17,378
16.

The 'IKEA Effect': When Labor Leads to Love

Harvard Business School Marketing Unit Working Paper No. 11-091
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Mar 2011
Working Paper Series
Michael I. Norton, Daniel Mochon and Dan Ariely
Harvard Business School - Marketing Unit, Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Downloads 17,272
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Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model

THE HANDBOOK FOR TEACHING LEADERSHIP, Chapter 16, Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College, eds., Sage Publications, 2011, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper 11-037, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-10, Simon School Working Paper Series No. FR 10-30
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 27 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
Independent, Harvard Business School and Kari Granger, LLC
Downloads 17,027
18.

Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Course Overview

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Apr 1998
Working Paper Series
Josh Lerner
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads 16,665
19.

Specific and General Knowledge and Organizational Structure

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, CONTRACT ECONOMICS, pp. 251-274, Lars Werin and Hans Wijkander, eds., Blackwell, Oxford, 1992, Journal Of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer 1995
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Sep 1995 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 16,089
20.

Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

Harvard Business School Marketing Unit Working Paper No. 10-012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Aug 2009
Working Paper Series
Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
University of Virginia - Darden School of Business, University of British Columbia, Harvard Business School - Marketing Unit and University of British Columbia - Department of Psychology
Downloads 16,052
21.

Eclipse of the Public Corporation

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW (Sept.-Oct. 1989), revised 1997.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 May 1999
Working Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 15,932
22.

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
Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy
Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Downloads 15,155
23.

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
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
Downloads 14,336
24.

Paying People to Lie: The Truth About the Budgeting Process

Harvard NOM Research Paper No. 01-03, and HBS Working Paper No. 01-072
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Apr 2001
Working Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School

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Downloads 14,123
25.

Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality

Harvard Business School NOM Working Paper No. 06-11, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 06-03, Simon School Working Paper No. FR 08-05
Number of pages: 124 Posted: 08 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC

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Downloads 13,933
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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
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School

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Downloads 13,722
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The Fall of Enron

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-38
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 17 Oct 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Krishna Palepu and Paul M. Healy
Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
Downloads 13,213
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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
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC
Downloads 13,107
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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
Michael C. Jensen and Clifford W. Smith
Harvard Business School and Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester
Downloads 12,761
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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
Gregor Andrade, Mark L. Mitchell and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, AQR Capital Management, LLC and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads 12,648
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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
Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
London Business School - Department of Strategic & International Management and Harvard University - Harvard Business School
Downloads 11,980
32.

The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period 1945-1964

Journal of Finance, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 389-416, 1967
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Aug 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 11,525
33.

The Theory of Corporate Finance: A Historical Overview

Michael C. Jensen, Clifford W. Smith, Jr., THE MODERN THEORY OF CORPORATE FINANCE, New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., pp. 2-20, 1984
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Sep 2000
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and Clifford W. Smith
Harvard Business School and Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester
Downloads 11,319
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Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality

The Accounting Review, Vol. 91, No. 6, pp. 1697-1724.
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Mozaffar Khan, George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon
Causeway Capital Management, LLC, Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Northwestern University - Department of Accounting Information & Management
Downloads 11,028
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Integrity: Where Leadership Begins - A New Model of Integrity (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

Barbados Group Working Paper No. 07-03, Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 07-03
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 May 2007 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
Independent, Harvard Business School and Landmark Worldwide LLC
Downloads 10,923
36.

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
Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen
The Monitor Company and Harvard Business School

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Downloads 10,773
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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
George P. Baker, Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 10,708
38.

Corporate Budgeting is Broken, Let's Fix it

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-26
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 14 Aug 2002
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School

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Downloads 10,686
39.

Performance Pay and Top Management Incentives

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 Mar 2001
Accepted Paper Series
Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Harvard Business School
Downloads 10,658
40.

Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008

EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 97, 319-338, 2010
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein
Harvard University and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads 10,562
41.

A New Model of Leadership

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 920623, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 06-02
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Sep 2006
Working Paper Series
Allan L. Scherr and Michael C. Jensen
ALS Consulting and Harvard Business School
Downloads 10,229
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Information Asymmetry, Corporate Disclosure and the Capital Markets: A Review of the Empirical Disclosure Literature

JAE Rochester Conference April 2000
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Feb 2001
Working Paper Series
Paul M. Healy and Krishna Palepu
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Business School

Multiple version iconThere are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 9,771
43.

Can Individual Investors Beat the Market?

HBS Finance Working Paper No. 04-025, Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-45
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2018
Working Paper Series
Joshua D. Coval, David A. Hirshleifer and Tyler Shumway
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 9,758
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The Economics of Structured Finance

Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 09-060
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Oct 2008
Working Paper Series
Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Harvard Business School - Finance Unit
Downloads 9,510
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The Free Cash Flow Theory of Takeovers: A Financial Perspective on Mergers and Acquisitions and the Economy

"The Merger Boom", Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, pp. 102-143, October 1987
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Feb 2003
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School
Downloads 9,419
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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
Michael C. Jensen
Harvard Business School

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Downloads 9,154
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Divisional Performance Measurement

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 29 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
Harvard Business School and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)

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Downloads 9,003
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Theodore Levitt's 'the Globalization of Markets': An Evaluation after Two Decades

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-20; Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 03-082
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Feb 2003
Working Paper Series
Rawi Abdelal and Richard S. Tedlow
Harvard University - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit
Downloads 8,862
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Introduction to Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 09-124, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 09-01, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference 2009: Law, Behavior & the Brain, Simon School Working Paper No. FR 09-27
Number of pages: 211 Posted: 22 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2015
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
Independent, Harvard Business School and Kari Granger, LLC
Downloads 8,816
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Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Control System for Monitoring and Revising Corporate Strategy

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 02-35
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Oct 2002
Working Paper Series
Dennis Campbell, Srikant Datar, Susan Cohen Kulp and V. G. Narayanan
Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit, Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit, George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit
Downloads 8,554