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All HBS Web
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- Faculty Publications (62)
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Toward Resource Independence—Why State-Owned Entities Become Multinationals: An Empirical Study of India's Public R&D Laboratories
- 2014
- Article
The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations
- 2014
- Chapter
Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action
- 2014
- Chapter
Corporate Social Responsibility and Multinational Corporations
- September–October 2013
- Article
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
- Article
Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure
- June 2012
- Article
Short Termism: Don't Blame the Investors
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Pioneers in Finance: An Interview with Michael C. Jensen - Part 1
- 9 May 2011 - 11 May 2011
- Conference Presentation
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
- September 2010
- Article
How Firms Respond to Being Rated
- March 2010
- Background Note
Airline Travel in the U.S.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Agency Revisited
- 2010
- Working Paper
Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity (PDF file of Keynote Slides)
There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of interest between people; for example, conflicts of interest between agents and owners—historically a favorite topic of Jensen—and not enough attention paid to the damage caused by an individual's conflict of... View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
Institutional Work and the Paradox of Embedded Agency
- February 2009
- Article
Suspended in Self-Spun Webs of Significance: A Rhetorical Model of Institutionalization and Institutionally Embedded Agency
- December 2008
- Article
Corporate Governance and Agency Conflicts
- November 2008
- Supplement
NEC Electronics (CW)
- fall 2008
- Article
The Intermediation of Financial Risks: Evolution in the Catastrophe Reinsurance Market
- 2006
- Working Paper
Too Motivated?
I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details
- 2006
- Working Paper
On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)
This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share their beliefs and assumptions, since such... View Details