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Wall Street Journal blog
Forget stock buybacks. Here's where CEOs should invest their tax windfall

In this regard, scholars such as Erik Brynjolffson, Lorin Hitt, Nick Bloom, and John Van Reenen have all shown that computers by themselves don't unleash rapid productivity growth; rather, it takes new bus... Read more...

21 February 2018

Le Monde
What should corporate profits really be used for ?

Dominique Steiler, professor of management, proposes in a tribune to the "World" to break with the paradigm of the hyper-competitiveness and the economic war to make the company a factor of individua... Read more...

14 February 2018

Fast Company
How the most (and least) successful CEOs spend their workdays

A group of professors from Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics, Columbia University, and the University of Oxford pondered the same question and conducted a survey of more than 1,000 CEOs i... Read more...

30 October 2017

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
The inner workings of the Board: Evidence from emerging markets

Article by Ralph de Haas, Daniel Ferreira and Tom Kirchmaier Our recent paper exploits data collected through an online survey of 130 current and past board directors (De Haas, Ferreira and Kirchmaier, 2017... Read more...

05 October 2017

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 132, Issue 2, May 2017
`Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More?'

Article by Ross Levine; Yona Rubinstein ISSN 0033-5533, EISSN 1531-4650.   Related publications ‘In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur’ R... Read more...

25 May 2017

Vox
CEO pay and the rise of relative performance contracts: the role of governance

Article by Brian Bell and John Van Reenen Lacklustre growth seems to be the new normal almost everywhere in the world except for one area - CEO pay. This column uses data on UK publicly listed firms to examine whether ... Read more...

05 August 2016

Harvard Business Review
Corporate inequality is the defining fact of business today

Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of economic inequality has been the role that firms play in it. It's safe to say that a significant part of the growing gap in how well different firms pay can be attributed to the lat... Read more...

11 May 2016

Business Day live
The right strategies will only work if you have the right people

In a recent article in McKinsey Quarterly John Dowdy, a director of McKinsey, and John van Reenen, an economics professor and director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, argue that ... Read more...

25 February 2015