Lack of a significant separation between ownership and control in Latin American companies imposes a necessary departure from applicable principles of corporate governance designed for market systems. Therefore, it may prove difficult, for instance, to adopt US norms, in the region due to...

We exploit unexpected corporate data breaches to study how firms respond to negative reputation events. Data breaches negatively affect firm profitability, value, and reputation for years following the event, but are not triggered by high or low reputations. In response, firms increase their...

This PowerPoint deck is used in the classroom to provide a broadly useful framework for value creation. The theme is that we are better equipped to deal with value creation by first gaining insights into how we build knowledge. Part 1 discusses core beliefs critical to a sharpened worldview that...

How does a board of directors decide what is right? The contest over this question is frequently framed as a debate between shareholder value and stakeholder rights, between a utilitarian view of the ethics of corporate governance and a deontological one. This paper uses a case study with...

This paper outlines significant developments which have occurred in recent times (2016 – 2021) as a growing number of regulators, standard setters, and other governance bodies begin to include explicit references to the value preservation imperative. These incremental steps are now directly...

Stakeholder groups appear to intuitively understand that logically the delivery of sustainable long-term value requires a healthy focus on value creation and on value preservation. Historically organizations have explicitly addressed the value creation imperative at a strategic level through...

After decades of theoretical inquiry, a burgeoning empirical literature now debates how ownership patterns, governance choices, and executive compensation structure affect firms' competitive behavior. An often-made assumption in the debate is that relative performance evaluation (RPE) of top...

Using one of the largest samples of litigation data to date, we examine whether the political culture of a firm determines its propensity for corporate misconduct. We measure political culture using the political contributions of top managers, firm PACs, and its local residents. We show that...

American corporate law scholars have long focused on state-to-state jurisdictional competition as a powerful engine in the making of American corporate law. Yet much corporate law is made in Washington, D.C. Federal authorities regularly make law governing the American corporation, typically via...