corporate governance

You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

by Sebastian Mallaby;  · 30 Mar 2026  · 607pp  · 161,998 words

in point. Suleyman had broken through the apathy that bedeviled the hospital system; he had protected patient privacy and set a new standard in transparent corporate governance; and when an anti-Google backlash hit him in the face, he had done everything possible to assuage the critics. He had done this, moreover

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oversight was especially dispiriting given the bleak prospects for government regulation. Reid Hoffman had been correct in 2017. It was worth risking his fortune on corporate-governance experiments because governments were unlikely to take action. Reflecting on this saga in 2024 and 2025, Hassabis and Suleyman attempted to draw lessons. By now

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

by Moises Naim  · 5 Mar 2013  · 474pp  · 120,801 words

Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business; see also Chandler, Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. 4. Lewis et al., Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance: British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. See also Micklethwait and Wooldridge, The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea. 5

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America’s Cold War Victory. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. Lewis, Myrddin John, Roger Lloyd-Jones, Josephine Maltby, and Mark Matthews. Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance: British Manufacturing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Farn ham, 2011. Lind, William S., Keith Nightengale, John F. Schmitt, Joseph

Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato  · 31 Jul 2016  · 370pp  · 102,823 words

of interactions between economic actors and institutions, both private and public. These outcomes will depend on the nature of the actors (for example, the different corporate governance structures of firms), their endowments and motivations, the body of law and regulation and cultural contexts which constrain them and the specific nature of the

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Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2009. 42 W. Lazonick and M. O’Sullivan, ‘Maximizing shareholder value: a new ideology for corporate governance’, Economy and Society, vol. 29, no. 1, 2000, pp. 13–35. 43 W. Hutton, How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building

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. Michie and J. Grieve Smith, eds., Globalisation, Growth, and Governance, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 204–38; M. O’Sullivan, ‘The innovative enterprise and corporate governance’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 24, no. 4, 2000, pp. 393–416. 25 Lazonick, The Theory of Innovative Enterprise. 26 J. Corbett and T. Jenkinson

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capitalism’, Capitalism and Society, vol. 4, no. 2, 2009, article 4. 29 W. Lazonick and M. O’Sullivan, ‘Maximising shareholder value: a new ideology for corporate governance’, Economy and Society, vol. 29, no. 1, 2000, pp. 13–35; W. Lazonick, ‘The financialisation of the US corporation: what has been lost, and how

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been disinvesting in the difficult R side of R&D is the increasing short-termism of corporations. The rise of the ‘shareholder-value’ model of corporate governance (discussed in William Lazonick’s chapter in this book) has played an important role in the reduced propensity of firms to undertake long-term investment

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it is important to recognise that short-termism is not a characteristic of capitalism or markets per se, but a result of particular kinds of corporate governance structures, ownership models and financial cultures.18 Indeed, as Jacobs and Mazzucato argue in the Introduction to this book, markets are best understood as the

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Institute, May 2015. 13 Arora et al., ‘Killing the Golden Goose?’. 14 W. Lazonick and M. O’Sullivan, ‘Maximizing Shareholder Value: A New Ideology for Corporate Governance’, Economy and Society, vol. 29, no. 10, 2000, pp. 13–35. 15 Ibid. 16 W. Lazonick, ‘Profits without Prosperity’, Harvard Business Review, vol. 92, no

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in US executive compensation since 1993 cannot be explained by firm performance or industrial structure and that, instead, it has mainly resulted from flaws in corporate governance, which enabled managers in practice to set their own pay.25 Mishel and Sabadish examined 350 firms, showing that growth in the compensation of their

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a century,53 and yet executives in major corporations have almost studiously resisted these insights. They have focused more on taking advantages of deficiencies in corporate governance and the lack of understanding of these issues by many shareholders to try to enhance their earnings—getting high pay when share prices increase, and

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rich countries looks much worse. The economic policies required to change this are not difficult to identify. We need more investment in public goods; better corporate governance, antitrust and anti-discrimination laws; a better regulated financial system; stronger workers’ rights; and more progressive tax and transfer policies. By ‘rewriting the rules’ governing

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York, W. W. Norton, 2003. There were other later battles, for example concerning say in pay and other reforms in corporate governance. For a discussion of the kinds of reforms in tax and corporate governance laws that might make a difference, see J. E. Stiglitz, Rewriting the Rules, Hyde Park, NY, The Roosevelt Institute

Take the Money and Run: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Demise of American Prosperity

by Eric C. Anderson  · 15 Jan 2009  · 264pp  · 115,489 words

listings. Lou, however, seems to have slipped on the “benign intent” message, as he told the assembled financial analysts that CIC hoped to help improve corporate governance at firms receiving Chinese funding.97 So much for the promise of passive investment. In the meantime, U.S. and international demands for Chinese investment

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of this Government Pension FundGlobal Annual Report. Published by Norges Bank Investment Management, the annual report provides explicit statements on the Fund’s mandate, return, corporate governance activities, risk, organization, management costs, and overall balance sheet. In addition, the annual report provides a by-name breakout of all holdings and any external

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exercise ownership rights in a manner intended to promote long-term financial returns based on the United Nation’s Global Compact92 and OECD Guidelines for Corporate Governance and for Multinational Enterprises93 • To conduct negative screening of companies from the investment universe that either themselves, or through entities they control, produce weapons that

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of environmentally friendly technologies. • Anticorruption • Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery. 93. The OECD Principles of Corporate Governance were endorsed by OECD Ministers in 1999 and have since become an international benchmark for policy makers, investors, corporations, and other stakeholders worldwide. They have

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advanced the corporate governance agenda and provided specific guidance for legislative and regulatory initiatives in both OECD and non-OECD countries. According to the OECD, the principles are based

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upon the following premises: 232 Notes • The corporate governance framework should promote transparent and efficient markets, be consistent with the rule of law and clearly articulate the division of responsibilities among different supervisory, regulatory

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, and enforcement authorities. • The corporate governance framework should protect and facilitate the exercise of shareholders’ rights. • The corporate governance framework should ensure the equitable treatment of all shareholders, including minority and foreign shareholders. All shareholders should have the opportunity

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to obtain effective redress for violation of their rights. • The corporate governance framework should recognize the rights of stakeholders established by law or through mutual agreements and encourage active cooperation between corporations and stakeholders in creating wealth

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, jobs, and the sustainability of financially sound enterprises. • The corporate governance framework should ensure that timely and accurate disclosure is made on all material matters regarding the corporation, including the financial situation, performance, ownership, and governance

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of the company. • The corporate governance framework should ensure the strategic guidance of the company, the effective monitoring of management by the board, and the board’s accountability to the company

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

by Rana Foroohar  · 16 May 2016  · 515pp  · 132,295 words

financial activity in our economy to the rise of debt-fueled speculation over productive lending, to the ascendancy of shareholder value as a model for corporate governance, to the proliferation of risky, selfish thinking in both our private and public sectors, to the increasing political power of financiers and the CEOs they

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aided financialization didn’t happen all at once, but were taken incrementally, creating a dysfunctional web of changes in areas like tax, trade, regulatory policy, corporate governance, and law. It’s a web that will take time and tremendous effort to dismantle. Financialization is behind the shifts in our retirement system and

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into the world’s largest integrated factory. But the case reverberated throughout American business and is still a key legal precedent in the area of corporate governance. The ruling enshrined in law the idea that companies had a legal obligation to maximize profits for investors, and that their interests trumped those of

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. They’re not going to go against their buddy [the CEO] who put them there.”39 That’s often true, but the real reason that corporate governance in this country isn’t stronger is that all the incentive structures for board members and CEOs alike are working against long-term decision making

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be good for shareholders—and what was good for them was good for America. The real-world turn toward the University of Chicago model of corporate governance, in which companies were run explicitly to “maximize shareholder value,” had begun.18 Shad made buybacks legally possible. But today’s trend, in which buybacks

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stewarding. But perversely, it’s exactly because they are the biggest administrators of corporate pension funds that they don’t advocate more vigorously for smarter corporate governance. Their clients and their investments are often one and the same, which creates conflicts of interest and blunts their ability to prod companies in a

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funds desperate to fulfill their commitments. “The economic landscape is clearly helping spur a lot of interest in activism,” says Anne Sheehan, the head of corporate governance for CalSTRS, the California state teachers’ pension fund that manages more than $180 billion and has gotten more active around proposals to shift corporate strategies

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is the cure for what ails America, both economically and socially. Icahn, for one, blames “poor corporate governance for a growing disparity in income and slow growth” in the country. “If we don’t get better corporate governance, we’re going to lose our hegemony,” he says.51 It’s a fascinating inversion of

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workers own and operate 100 percent of the firm. Many of these companies tend to be quite profitable and have high standards of transparency and corporate governance as well as enviable cultures. (Gore’s was famously profiled in Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point. The company’s products are made in

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statements by engaging in trades right before reporting day, which would artificially push up the company’s earnings. Such number games were technically forbidden by corporate governance watchdogs, but it was an open secret that GE played them. The company didn’t try particularly hard to hide such maneuvers—after all, Wall

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fund managers are essentially takers, not makers. But if more of them use their power to buy and hold shares of firms that practice good corporate governance and follow business strategies that support the real economy, then finance could potentially become not an impediment to growth but in fact a true supporter

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he had a few years back with several other big fund managers who’d gotten together to talk about how the industry might encourage better corporate governance within firms. Bogle felt that asset managers like Vanguard had the potential to play a critical role in fighting off activist investors (like the sort

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-term proposition by definition. Still, this was a sensitive topic—since asset managers are hired to manage the retirement money of the very firms whose corporate governance they might be trying to direct—and Bogle’s suggestion got a rather mixed reaction. “I remember one of the guys from some big firm

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vote (the vote that gives them a say on issues like executive pay, corporate boards, and even some big company decisions) to help enforce better corporate governance, they could help businesses push back against the short-term pressure from Wall Street for quick returns and easy profits that undermine longer-term growth

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themselves didn’t have incentives to push the quarter over the longer haul.) To be sure, some fund managers have complained that such forays into corporate governance would be too costly. Yet one large asset manager, TIAA-CREF, has already taken on the challenge. A few years back it started allocating more

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than $1 million a year to its corporate governance program—an expenditure that amounted to only about three-tenths of a percent of its total invested assets,51 which would seem to be well

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serve our shared prosperity and economic growth. Much time has been spent and much ink spilled on the particulars of how to regulate finance, fix corporate governance, and rejigger our tax system. Rather than focus on the details of those and other points of reform, which should be hashed out by a

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the United States enjoys, they’ll have a leg up in terms of creating sustainable growth. That’s because many of their existing structures of corporate governance—codetermination, more sensible levels of executive pay, and so forth—as well as their social democratic commitments to the broader public well-being already serve

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with Johnson for this book. 42. Author interview with Barton for this book. 43. Business Roundtable 1990, “Corporate Governance and American Competitiveness,” Directors & Boards 22, no. 2 (Winter 1998): 26; Business Roundtable 1997, “Statement on Corporate Governance,” Directors & Boards 22, no. 2 (Winter 1998): 25. 44. The average tenure of a CEO in the

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Pressured to Be ‘Better Corporate Citizens,’ ” Associated Press, March 9, 2000; Willard T. Carleton, James M. Nelson, and Michael Weisbach, “The Influence of Institutions on Corporate Governance Through Private Negotiations: Evidence from TIAA-CREF,” Journal of Finance 53, no. 4 (1998): 1335–62. 52. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and

Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible

by William N. Goetzmann  · 11 Apr 2016  · 695pp  · 194,693 words

stock. He had replaced a depleted currency based on scarce silver specie with fiat money that could respond to market demand. He had created a corporate governance structure that had the potential to respond strategically to France’s competitors in the rush to globalization. He had also created a world that depended

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foreign competition, wars, and the complexities of an eroding nation-state to lead China into the modern world economy. By 1905, Chinese officials had adopted corporate governance and a sophisticated corporate legal code that formed the basis for the transition to successful private corporate ownership. However, China’s Communist Revolution in 1949

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joint public-private structure earlier in Chinese history (see Chapter 9). It can rightly be regarded as a financial innovation—a new re-configuration of corporate governance that sought to reconcile the traditional Chinese governmental control and value extraction with modern corporate forms. The question is whether this new experiment would succeed

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when major concerns, such as how corporations can fight global warming, come up? Perhaps this is making too big a deal about the importance of corporate governance. After all, corporations were developed to allow investors to delegate management responsibility—we would mostly expect delegation to dominate. However, democracies appear to be particularly

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Kong conglomerate. 7. See Goetzmann, William N. and Elisabeth Köll. 2005. “The History of Corporate Ownership in China,” in Randall Morck (ed.), A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 157 and ff. 8. Goetzmann and Köll (2005), p. 158

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. 2005. “The History of Corporate Ownership in China: State Patronage, Company Legislation, and the Issue of Control,” in Randall K. Morck (ed.), A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 149–184. Goetzmann, William N., and Andrey D. Ukhov. 2006

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

by David Callahan  · 1 Jan 2004  · 452pp  · 110,488 words

Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 1995  · 585pp  · 165,304 words

Koreans succeeded in creating large companies and zaibatsu in the manner of Japan, they have nonetheless encountered many Chinese-style difficulties in the nature of corporate governance, from management succession to relations on the shop floor. The Korean case shows, however, how a resolute and competent state can shape industrial structure and

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  · 9 May 2016  · 515pp  · 126,820 words

Block Exchanges Dr. Faust’s Blockchain Bargain The Bank App: Who Will Win in Retail Banking Google Translate for Business: New Frameworks for Accounting and Corporate Governance Reputation: You Are Your Credit Score The Blockchain IPO The Market for Prediction Markets Road Map for the Golden Eight CHAPTER 4: Re-architecting the

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better estimate actuarial risk, creating decentralized markets for insurance. More transparent derivatives Insurance, risk management, wholesale banking, brokerage, clearinghouses, regulators 8. Accounting for Value—new corporate governance Distributed ledger will make audit and financial reporting real time, responsive, and transparent, will dramatically improve capacity of regulators to scrutinize financial actions within a

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of financial services, the most entrenched industry in the world, promises to be an intense one. GOOGLE TRANSLATE FOR BUSINESS: NEW FRAMEWORKS FOR ACCOUNTING AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE “Accountants are like mushrooms—they’re kept in the dark and fed shit,”52 said Tom Mornini, CEO of Subledger, a start-up targeting the

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going on quarterly, compared to one that shows you what’s going on all the time?”67 Will investors demand triple-entry accounting to meet corporate governance standards? It’s not a far-fetched question. Many institutional investors, such as the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, have developed strict

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corporate governance standards, and will not invest in a company unless those standards are met.68 Triple-entry accounting could be next. Triple-Entry Accounting: Privacy Is

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for corporate integrity. Inside the black box of corporations, sunshine is the best disinfectant. Triple-entry accounting is the first of many blockchain innovations in corporate governance. Like many institutions in society, our corporations are suffering from a crisis of legitimacy. Shareholder activist Robert Monks wrote, “Capitalism has become a kleptocracy, run

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employees, staff, and other stakeholders. But that’s different from privacy. Increasing transparency is a huge opportunity for managers everywhere: uphold the highest standards of corporate governance, seize the mantle of trust as corporate leaders, and do it by embracing the blockchain. REPUTATION: YOU ARE YOUR CREDIT SCORE Whether you’re applying

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, July 13, 2015. 65. Ibid. 66. Interview with Tom Mornini, July 20, 2015. 67. Ibid. 68. www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/forms-publications/global-principles-corporate-governance.pdf. 69. Interview with Izabella Kaminska, August 5, 2015. 70. http://listedmag.com/2013/06/robert-monks-its-broke-lets-fix-it/. 71. The Right

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: A Purely Positive Approach,” November 27, 2015, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 12-074; Barbados Group Working Paper No. 12-01; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)—Finance Working Paper No. 417/2014. 30. Bank of America’s Average Return on Equity since December 31, 2009, is less than 2

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, 142, 166 Copyright, 45–49, 132–33, 228–31, 234, 236, 237–38 Core competencies, 110–12 Corporate boundaries changing, 92–109 determining, 109–14 Corporate governance, in financial services, 73–79 Corporations, reconfiguring as engine of capitalism, 21–22. See also New business models; Re-architecting the firm Corruption, 19, 20

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Financial services, 55–86. See also Microfinance blockchain IPOs, 82–84 blockchain transformations of, 8, 18–19, 58–63, 64, 128 frameworks for accounting and corporate governance, 73–79 Golden Eight of, 61–63, 64, 86 identity issues, 61, 64, 78–79 paradoxes of traditional finance, 55–57 players in blockchain ecosystem

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