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ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

The system of formal and informal rules by which a company is governed. Corporate governance shapes more than just a given’s company value – it dictates who controls the capital in the economy and so how this capital is being put the use. Corporate governance therefore affects and is affected by the degree of cronyism and rent-seeking in society.

ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Elizabeth Holmes Is the Exception: More Women on Boards Lead to Less Corporate Wrongdoing

Ido Baum
The so-called “opportunity theory” suggests that women are statistically underrepresented in white-collar offenses because they are underrepresented in higher corporate echelons. A forthcoming paper...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Are American Firms Becoming Politically Polarized?

Vyacheslav Fos
A new paper examines political polarization among top executives in S&P 1500 firms, highlighting a robust trend toward political polarization in corporate America. This...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

How Much Can We Trust Index Funds on Climate Change?

Roberto Tallarita
According to a theory that is gaining support among academics and practitioners, we should expect index fund managers to undertake the role of “climate...
Commentary

This Proposal Could Inadvertently Improve Corporate Accounting

Karthik Ramanna
A provision within the Biden administration’s Build Back Better bill that assesses a minimum tax on certain companies based on their income reported to...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation: Covid, the Retail Crisis, and REITs

Mark Pilkington
In an excerpt from his new book Retail Recovery, retail expert and author Mark Pilkington explores the impact of the sector's decline in the...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Addressing Climate Change Must Begin with Verifiable Carbon Accounting

Robert Kaplan
Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna propose a new approach for verifiable accounting on indirect corporate emissions that would apply to all corporations, increase incentives...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

The Social Responsibility of Business Includes Profits

Alex Edmans
Profits these days are often seen as a dirty word, but it is wrong to demonize profits. A company’s responsibility is not to sacrifice...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Managers Should Satisfy Only the Ethically Permissible Preferences of Shareholders

Santiago Mejia
Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales have proposed a revision to the dominant model of the objective of the firm, most famously defended by Milton...
Antitrust and Competition

Unreliable Accounts: How Regulators Fabricate Conceptual Narratives to Diffuse Criticism

Karthik Ramanna
In 2010, as the world was reeling from the global financial crisis, the body that determines generally accepted accounting principles for listed corporations in...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Two Years After the Business Roundtable Statement: Pointing in the Right Direction

Margaret Blair
The 2019 Business Roundtable statement was a welcome break from the position that the nation’s top corporate CEOs took in 1997, when the BRT pledged...
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