ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

In new research, Jitendra Aswani and Roberto Rigobon find that investments raised on sustainable bond markets force firms to make material changes to corporate...

David J. Teece and Aurelien Portuese argue that short-term thinking in American corporate governance, antitrust, and regulation is hampering American innovation and success even as other countries invest in their firms to dominate frontier markets.

A new study by Zwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver G. Spalt finds that Americans often prioritize moral values over financial gains when evaluating...

In recent research, Jennifer Arlen and Lewis A. Kornhauser develop a new model to understand how countries should approach and balance corporate and individual...

Many asset managers have stopped offering funds supporting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in the face of political backlash. In new research, Omar Vasquez Duque shows that much of this backlash is due to semantics and poor fund design, and that investors across the political spectrum are willing to take lower financial returns to support specific goals under the ESG label.

In 2021, a regulatory shift by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission expanded shareholder proposals on environment and social issues from mere company...

Large asset managers increasingly control voting rights on behalf of investors, raising questions about ideological alignment in corporate governance. Pablo Montagnes, Zac Peskowitz, and...

William Lazonick writes that recent United States industrial policy initiatives miss the centrality of corporate resource allocation for creating a robust economy, characterized by...

The following is an excerpt from John Kay's new book,“The Corporation in the 21st Century,” now out at Yale University Press. It is neither necessary nor sufficient...

In new research, William Christopher Gerken, Steven Irlbeck, Marcus Painter and Guangli Zhang track the movements of Securities and Exchange Commission-associated smartphone devices to shed light on the SEC’s investigatory process and understand how office visits from its staff alter firm behavior and outcomes.