Why Do Firms Appoint CEOs as Outside Directors?
Functioning as an independent oversight group, the board of directors is expected to act in the best interests of a company’s shareholders. But boards that are heavy with outside CEOs are sometimes viewed as being in league with the company’s own executive leadership, lacking the distance necessary to provide unbiased oversight. This study examines why companies choose to appoint CEO directors and who their presence … [ Read more ]
Content: Related Content | Authors: Angie Low, René M. Stulz, Rüdiger Fahlenbrach | Source: “Ohio State University” | Subject: Corporate Governance
Generic Business Level Strategies
Finance Courses on the Web
This page, maintained by Tim Opler shows a last updated date of March 15, 1997 and indeed there are some broken links – but there are also quite a lot of good links still. Courses are organized by level (undergrad, MBA, PhD). Part of a larger site for finance links found at Content: Online Resource | Author: Tim Opler | Source: “Ohio State University” | Subjects: Education, Finance | Industry: Finance / Banking
Finance Site List
We don’t often post links pages, but this one is pretty impressive and is organized into the following categories:
– Finance Journals
– Institutional Working Paper Sites
– Personal Working Paper Sites
– The Finance Profession
– Research Centers
– Link Collections
– Asset Pricing & Investments
– Derivatives … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Sources: “Charles A. Dice Center”, “Ohio State University” | Subjects: Finance, Reference / Search | Industry: Finance / Banking
Financial Data Finder
This mini search engine for finance allows you to enter a description and choose from a set of keywords (more like finance subjects) and then choose the type of information you are looking for (historical data, quotes, links, news, reports, or research).
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Ohio State University” | Subject: Finance | Industry: Finance / Banking
Center for Research in Financial Economics
Univ of Ohio Finance department working papers
Content: Online Resource | Source: “Ohio State University” | Subjects: Education, Finance