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1.

Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Sep 2004
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Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads 39,477
2.

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: 03 Mar 2023
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 19,671
3.

The Making and Meaning of ESG

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-23, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 659/2022, Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 14, p. 403, 2024
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2024
Accepted Paper Series
Elizabeth Pollman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Institute for Law and Economics; European Corporate Governance Institute
Downloads 15,769
4.

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: 10 Jun 2024
Accepted Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 15,076
5.

Comparing the Decision Styles of American, Chinese and Japanese Business Leaders

Best Paper Proceedings of Academy of Management Meetings, Washington, DC, August 2001
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 19 Dec 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Maris G. Martinsons
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Management Sciences
Downloads 14,243
6.

The Loser's Curse: Decision Making & Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
Cade Massey and Richard H. Thaler
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads 13,689
7.

Analysis of the Dot-Com Bubble of the 1990s

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Jun 2008
Working Paper Series
John J. Morris and Pervaiz Alam
Kansas State University and Kent State University
Downloads 12,669
8.

Corporate Social Responsibility - an Economic and Financial Framework

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jan 2005
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Geoffrey M. Heal
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads 12,008
9.

Origin of the Theory of Agency: An Account By One of the Theory's Originators

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
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Barry M. Mitnick
University of Pittsburgh
Downloads 11,167
10.

Literature Review - Knowledge Management Research at the Organizational Level

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jun 2007
Working Paper Series
David A. Bray
Institute for Defense Analyses
Downloads 10,436
11.

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 (Deceased)
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 10,384
12.

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 (Deceased) and William H. Meckling
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 10,049
13.

Who Wins in a Dynamic World: Theory of Constraints Vs. Activity-Based Costing?

North American Assoc. for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference, June 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 09 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2008
Working Paper Series
Robin Cooper, David A. Bray and Michael I. Parzen
Emory University - Goizueta Business School, Institute for Defense Analyses and Emory University - Goizueta Business School
Downloads 9,081
14.

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

Journal of Political Economy, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 511/2017
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 03 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2022
Accepted Paper Series
Miguel Anton, Florian Ederer, Mireia Gine, Martin C. Schmalz and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Navarra, IESE Business School, Boston University - Markets, Public Policy, and Law, IESE Business School, University of Navarra and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance

Multiple version iconThere are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,681
15.

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 12-074, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 12-01, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) – Finance Working Paper No. 417/2014
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Independent and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 8,240
16.

Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2006
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
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Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor
Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University
Downloads 8,164
17.

A Short Treatise on Fantasy Sports and the Law: How America Regulates its New National Pastime

Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, Vol. 3, January 2012
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Marc Edelman
City University of New York - Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
Downloads 7,600
18.

The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 61, March 2009, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 344, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 627, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 09-63
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
C. Scott Hemphill and Jeannie Suk Gersen
New York University School of Law and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,055
19.

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 13-09
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2013
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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Department of Economics

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Downloads 7,019
20.

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 May 1997
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George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 6,364
21.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder's Value: An Event Study Analysis

FRB of Atlanta Working Paper No. 2007-6, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 1/2009
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Sep 2006
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Leonardo Becchetti, Rocco Ciciretti and Iftekhar Hasan
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics, Tor Vergata University of Rome - Department of Economics and Finance and Fordham University
Downloads 6,337
22.

The EU Digital Markets Act: A Report from a Panel of Economic Experts

Cabral, L., Haucap, J., Parker, G., Petropoulos, G., Valletti, T., and Van Alstyne, M ., The EU Digital Markets Act, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021,ISBN 978-92-76-29788-8, d oi:10.2760/139337, JRC122910., Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 3783436, NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2023
Accepted Paper Series
Luis M. B. Cabral, Justus Haucap, Justus Haucap, Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Tommaso M. Valletti and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College Business School and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 6,301
23.

Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations: Course Notes (2nd of 4 Ccmo Documents)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 98-098
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 21 Apr 1998 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
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Michael C. Jensen (Deceased) and William H. Meckling
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)
Downloads 6,218
24.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Dec 2005
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David P. Baron
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads 5,568
25.

Are We Selling Results or Résumés?: The Underexplored Linkage between Human Resource Strategies and Firm-Specific Capital

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 105
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2008
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William D. Henderson
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 5,436
26.

Organizations and Markets: History and Development of the Ccmo Course and the Field (1st of 4 Ccmo Documents)

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 Apr 1998
Case and Teaching Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased), George P. Baker, Carliss Y. Baldwin and Karen H. Wruck
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
Downloads 5,341
27.

Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm

Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 2861574
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 31 Oct 2016
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Geoffrey Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Xiaoyue Jiang
Dartmouth College, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and Tulane University
Downloads 5,267
28.

An Empirical Analysis of the Strategic Use of Corporate Social Responsibility

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 May 2006
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Donald S. Siegel and Donald F. Vitaliano
Arizona State University-School of Public Affairs and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Department of Economics
Downloads 5,088
29.

Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review, March, 2013, pp. 44-56
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Larry Downes and Paul Nunes
Larry Downes Consulting Group and Accenture Institute for High Performance
Downloads 5,052
30.

The Enron Scandal (Slides)

Number of pages: 101 Posted: 04 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 14 May 2009
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Marc Hodak and Marc Hodak
Hodak Value AdvisorsNew York University (NYU) - Markets, Ethics & Law (MEL) Program
Downloads 5,052
31.

Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders?

Vanderbilt Law Review, Volume 75, 2022, pp. 1031-1091
Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 1078
Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Working Paper 2021-11
, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 645/2022
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 05 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2023
Working Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 5,045
32.

Computational Antitrust: An Introduction and Research Agenda

Stanford Computational Antitrust (Vol. 1) 2021
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Jan 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Thibault Schrepel
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Downloads 5,028
33.

Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations: Course Content and Materials (3rd of 4 Ccmo Documents)

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 21 Apr 1998
Case and Teaching Paper Series
Karen H. Wruck and Michael C. Jensen (Deceased)
Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
Downloads 4,990
34.

The Impact of Activity Based Costing on Managerial Decisions at Insteel Industries - a Field Study

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Sep 1999
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V. G. Narayanan and Ratna G. Sarkar
Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit and Harvard University - General Management Unit
Downloads 4,979
35.

Blockchain Code as Antitrust

Berkeley Technology Law Journal
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 May 2020 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Thibault Schrepel and Vitalik Buterin
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Ethereum Foundation
Downloads 4,866
36.

Offerta e Rendimenti di Scala in Concorrenza Perfetta (Supply and Returns to Scale under Perfect Competition)

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2020
Working Paper Series
Maria-Augusta Miceli
Sapienza University of Rome - Faculty of Economics
Downloads 4,822
37.

Oligopolio con Bene Omogeneo (Oligopoly with Homogeneous Good)

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
Maria-Augusta Miceli
Sapienza University of Rome - Faculty of Economics
Downloads 4,822
38.

Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 93, 2009, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 0-28, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 638
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Howell E. Jackson and Mark J. Roe
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,799
39.

Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations: Practice Questions (4th of 4 Ccmo Documents)

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 20 Apr 1998
Case and Teaching Paper Series
Michael C. Jensen (Deceased), William H. Meckling, George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased), HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business, Department of Finance
Downloads 4,782
40.

Horizontal Shareholding

109 Harvard Law Review 1267 (2016), Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 16-17
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Einer Elhauge
Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,751
41.

The Myth that Insulating Boards Serves Long-Term Value

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 113, No. 6, pp. 1637-1694, October 2013, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 755
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,599
42.

The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance: Presentation Slides

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 May 2020 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2020
Working Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 4,399
43.

Optimal Capital Structure Under Corporate and Personal Taxation

Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 3-27, 1980
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Harry DeAngelo and Ronald W. Masulis
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and University of New South Wales, Sydney
Downloads 4,339
44.

Understanding Cost Management: What Can We Learn from the Evidence on 'Sticky Costs'?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 10 May 2009
Working Paper Series
Shannon W. Anderson and William N. Lanen
University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 4,313
45.

Monopolio, Monopsonio e Rendimenti di Scala (Monopoly, Monopsony and Returns to Scale)

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Maria-Augusta Miceli
Sapienza University of Rome - Faculty of Economics
Downloads 4,310
46.

Determinants of Bank Profitability Before and During the Crisis: Evidence from Switzerland

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 10 May 2010
Working Paper Series
Andreas Dietrich and Gabrielle Wanzenried
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Institut für Finanzdienstleistungen Zug (IFZ)
Downloads 4,154
47.

Public vs. Private Ownership: The Current State of the Debate

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 26 Mar 2001
Working Paper Series
Mary M. Shirley and Patrick Walsh
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank (Formerly)
Downloads 4,135
48.

The Independent Director in Chinese Corporate Governance

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 125-228, 2006, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 204, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 204
Number of pages: 104 Posted: 15 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Donald C. Clarke
George Washington University - Law School
Downloads 4,035
49.

Principal Costs: A New Theory for Corporate Law and Governance

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 767, 2017, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2571739, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-462
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 03 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Zohar Goshen and Richard Squire
Columbia Law School and Fordham University School of Law
Downloads 3,879
50.

Economics & Corporate Culture

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 10 May 1999
Working Paper Series
Benjamin E. Hermalin
University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 3,834