Image: Series: Financeseries The State of U.S. Corporate Governance: What's Right and What's Wrong? Bengt Holmström, Steven Kaplan Boards, Shareholder Value, US Series number : Serial Number: 023/2003 Date posted : September 01 2003 Last revised : SSRN Share Pocket Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy URL Keywords U.S. corporate governance system • shareholder value • executive compensation • boards • Sarbanes-Oxley act • comparative corporate governance
Professor Real name: Steven Kaplan Fellow, Research Member University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
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