A major question in corporate compliance research and practice is how to establish the effectiveness of compliance programs and policies on promoting desirable outcomes. To assess such effectiveness requires proper measurement. This chapter, which is the introduction to an edited volume on...

Leadership behaviors of wildland firefighting teams engaged in firefighting activities are “shared” despite the existence of a highly bureaucratic and hierarchical organizational structure. This paradoxical type of leadership appears to be based on individual perceptions of the effectiveness...

A co-authored October 2020 Harvard Business Review (“HBR”) article promotes the use of “formal relational contracts” as a means of obviating or limiting opportunistic behaviors by contracting parties, including parties contending with cataclysmic events or factors in or outside the...

The federalization of U.S. corporate governance has been a topic of conversation among policymakers from the very beginning of the federal securities laws in the New Deal era. Among the early proponents of a federalized system of corporate governance oversight was William O. Douglas—perhaps...

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), signed into law by President Obama on April 5, 2012, after passage by Congress with bipartisan support, was ostensibly designed to promote job creation by eliminating perceived securities regulatory impediments to capital formation by small...

This chart attempts to summarize and organize major provisions of various U.S. social enterprise statutes. The entity forms allowed by one or more of the social enterprise statutes are benefit corporations, flexible purpose corporations, public benefit corporations, and social purpose...

This essay presents my educational philosophy for the teaching of business associations, corporate governance, energy, entrepreneurship, ethics, finance and capital markets, law, leadership, management, securities law, strategy, and venture capital. Any treatment of this topic can easily span...

In 1999, the Daewoo Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world, collapsed, committing a staggering $15.3 billion in accounting fraud in the process. Daewoo's problems, however, did not remain a case isolated to a Korean chaebol. Daewoo's demise foreshadowed the corporate scandals that...

We develop and test hypotheses derived from a multi-level theoretical framework for understanding factors shaping the credit risk and capital structure of a quintessentially Asian form of investment known as project finance. It differs from other corporate financing approaches. A project company...

Prepared for an upcoming issue of The University of Chicago Law Review on the most-cited legal scholars, this Essay discusses Lucian Bebchuk’s fundamental contributions to the field of corporate governance, as well as his major impact on scholarship, practice, and policy. Bebchuk is the author...