We identify persistent director style effects on corporate policies. Director style explains a significant amount of cross-sectional variation in firm policy variables for financing, investment, operations, and corporate governance, among others. The results are significantly different from...

The legal environment is a significant source of disruption for business. With this disruption also comes the opportunity for innovation by firms willing to understand how legal systems function. This manuscript shows how firms can respond to legal volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and...

A harmful byproduct of the global economy is the proliferation of abuses in global supply chains. Too often lead firms and suppliers do not effectively collaborate. Lead firms require human rights and sustainability standards while also demanding extremely low cost goods and fast production...

Science skepticism is on the rise worldwide, and it has a pernicious influence on science and science-based public policy. This article explores two of the most controversial science-based public policy issues: whether genetically modified foods are inherently unsafe and whether vaccines cause...