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1.

Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, What are the Problems, and How to Fix Them

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 04-28; ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 44/2004
Number of pages: 116 Posted: 05 Jul 2004
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Michael C. Jensen, Kevin J. Murphy and Eric G. Wruck
Harvard Business School, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business
Downloads 27,485
2.

Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation

Economics and Statistics Administration Issue Brief No. 04-11
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Nov 2011
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David N. Beede, Tiffany A. Julian, David Langdon, George McKittrick, Beethika Khan and Mark E. Doms
Office of the Chief Economist, Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Government of the United States of America - Bureau of the Census, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Science Foundation and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Downloads 23,347
3.

CEO Incentives: It's Not How Much You Pay, But How

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Harvard Business Review, No. 3, May-June 1990
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Apr 1999
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Michael C. Jensen and Kevin J. Murphy
Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Downloads 16,300
4.

Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 10,312
5.

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 7,994
6.

Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,409
7.

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 19 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law

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Downloads 5,704
8.

Are We Selling Results or Résumés?: The Underexplored Linkage between Human Resource Strategies and Firm-Specific Capital

Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 105
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2008
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William D. Henderson
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 5,139
9.

Catching Up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 14-23, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 16-17, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 20 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2019
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Joni Hersch
Vanderbilt University - Law School

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Downloads 4,883
10.

The Economic Value of a Law Degree

HLS Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2013-6
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
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Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Amazon.com

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Downloads 4,764
11.

The Growth of Executive Pay

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 21, pp. 283-303, 2005, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 510
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Yaniv Grinstein
Harvard Law School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Downloads 4,188
12.

Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 807-822, 2005, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 653125, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 505, February 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 3,780
13.

Venture Capital Limited Partnership Agreements: Understanding Compensation Arrangements

U of Texas Law and Economics Research Paper No. 29, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 254
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2008
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Kate Litvak
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 3,726
14.

Incentive Pay and the Market for CEOS: An Analysis of Pay-for-Performance Sensitivity

Presented at Tuck-JFE Contemporary Corporate Governance Conference
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Jul 2000
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Charles P. Himmelberg and R. Glenn Hubbard
Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
Downloads 3,338
15.

Rewriting History

AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 18 May 2010
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Alexander Ljungqvist, Christopher J. Malloy and Felicia C. Marston
Stockholm School of Economics, Harvard Business School and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

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Downloads 3,254
16.

Managerial Capital and the Market for CEOs

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 08 May 2007
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Kevin J. Murphy and Jan Zabojnik
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Queen's University - Department of Economics
Downloads 3,052
17.

Attractiveness, Easiness, and Other Issues: Student Evaluations of Professors on RateMyProfessors.com

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Jul 2006
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James Felton, Peter T. Koper, John B. Mitchell and Michael Stinson
Central Michigan University - Department of Finance and Law, Central Michigan University - Department of English Language & Literature, Central Michigan University - Department of Finance and Law and Central Michigan University - Department of Computer Science

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Downloads 3,038
18.

Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 25, April 2014, pp. 140-154, Harvard Law School John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 683
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Charles C. Y. Wang
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School (HBS), Accounting & Control Unit
Downloads 3,018
19.

What Do Boards Do? Evidence from Board Committee and Director Compensation Data

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Sep 2005
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Renee B. Adams
University of Oxford
Downloads 2,893
20.

What is a Professional Service Firm? Towards a Theory and Taxonomy of Knowledge Intensive Firms

Academy of Management Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 155-174, Jan. 2010
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 May 2009 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2011
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Andrew von Nordenflycht
Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Beedie School of Business
Downloads 2,854
21.

Pay Without Performance and the Managerial Power Hypothesis: A Comment

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 01 May 2006
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Bengt R. Holmström
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Downloads 2,833
22.

Lucky CEOs

Journal of Finance, 2010 (published as "Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors"), Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 566
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein and Urs Peyer
Harvard Law School, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and INSEAD - Finance

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Downloads 2,828
23.

Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Dec 2000
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Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Downloads 2,776
24.

The CEO Pay Slice

102 Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 102, 2011, pp. 199-221
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer
Harvard Law School, University of Notre Dame and INSEAD - Finance

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Downloads 2,739
25.

Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors

Journal of Finance, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 2363-2401, 2010, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 39-09, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein and Urs Peyer
Harvard Law School, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and INSEAD - Finance
Downloads 2,301
26.

The Economic Value of a Law Degree, Powerpoint Presentation

2013 American Law & Economics Conference, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee
Number of pages: 129 Posted: 26 May 2013 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014
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Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Amazon.com

Multiple version iconThere are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,165
27.

A Theory of Friendly Boards

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 100/2005
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Dec 2005
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Renee B. Adams and Daniel Ferreira
University of Oxford and London School of Economics - Department of Finance
Downloads 2,053
28.

Quantifying Managerial Ability: A New Measure and Validity Tests

Management Science, Forthcoming, AAA 2009 Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) Paper, AAA 2009 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2011
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Peter R. Demerjian, Baruch Lev and Sarah E. McVay
University of Illinois at Chicago, New York University - Stern School of Business and University of Washington

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Downloads 2,051
29.

A Blueprint for Change

Pepperdine Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, p. 461, 2013, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 230
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 08 May 2013
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William D. Henderson
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Downloads 2,044
30.

Discretion in Executive Incentive Contracts: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Dec 2001
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Kevin J. Murphy and Paul Oyer
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 1,991
31.

Firm Expansion and CEO Pay

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 533, 2005, Johnson School Research Paper No. 27-06
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 10 May 2009
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Lucian A. Bebchuk and Yaniv Grinstein
Harvard Law School and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Downloads 1,884
32.

A Dynamic Perspective on Next-Generation Offshoring: The Global Sourcing of Science and Engineering Talent

Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 35-54, 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 10 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2011
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Stephan Manning, Silvia Massini and Arie Y. Lewin
University of Sussex Business School, University of Manchester and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Downloads 1,851
33.

The Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

Number of pages: 108 Posted: 20 Mar 2001
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Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner and Alvin E. Roth
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School and Dept. of Economics, Stanford University
Downloads 1,817
34.

Corporate Culture and the Problem of Executive Compensation

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 12 Dec 2005
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Arthur Levitt
Independent Author
Downloads 1,815
35.

Ethical Issues in Outsourcing Accounting and Tax Services

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 02 Feb 2005
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Robert W. McGee
Fayetteville State University - Department of Accounting
Downloads 1,731
36.

Stealth Compensation Via Retirement Benefits

Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 1, pp. 291-326, 2004, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 487, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 583861
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

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Downloads 1,720
37.

Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 574
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 18 May 2009
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer
Harvard Law School, University of Notre Dame and INSEAD - Finance
Downloads 1,669
38.

Bankruptcy and Bad Behavior - The Real Moral Hazard: Law Schools Exploiting Market Dysfunction

American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review , Vol. 23, No. 1, Winter 2015
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Steven Harper
Northwestern University/Northwestern School of Law
Downloads 1,665
39.

Web-Based Student Evaluations of Professors: The Relations between Perceived Quality, Easiness, and Sexiness

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Aug 2003
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James Felton, John B. Mitchell and Michael Stinson
Central Michigan University - Department of Finance and Law, Central Michigan University - Department of Finance and Law and Central Michigan University - Department of Computer Science

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Downloads 1,654
40.

The Secret of My Success: How Status, Prestige and School Performance Shape Legal Careers

Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 207, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-26
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2012
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Richard H. Sander and Jane R. Bambauer
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads 1,649
41.

Performance Standards in Incentive Contracts

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Nov 1999
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Kevin J. Murphy
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
Downloads 1,623
42.

Audit Markets, Fees and Production: Towards an Integrated View of Empirical Audit Research

Journal of Accounting Literature, Volume 29 (2010), 167-215
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 26 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2013
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Monika Causholli, Michael De Martinis, David Hay and W. Robert Knechel
University of Kentucky - Von Allmen School of Accountancy , Monash University, University of Auckland - Business School and University of Florida - Fisher School of Accounting
Downloads 1,572
43.

Lucky Directors

Journal of Finance, 2010 (published as "Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors"), Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 573
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein and Urs Peyer
Harvard Law School, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and INSEAD - Finance

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Downloads 1,568
44.

Bargaining in the Shadow of Big Data

Florida Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 5, 2014
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2014
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Drury D. Stevenson and Nicholas J. Wagoner
South Texas College of Law and South Texas College of Law Alumni
Downloads 1,564
45.

Remuneration, Retention, and Reputation Incentives for Outside Directors

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Oct 2003
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David Yermack
New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business

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Downloads 1,500
46.

Corporate Boardroom Diversity: Why Are We Still Talking About This?

17 The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 219 (2015)
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 30 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Lawrence J. Trautman
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business
Downloads 1,478
47.

Human Capital, Sports Performance and Salary Determination of Professional Athletes

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Mar 2006
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Roberto Antonietti
University of Padova - "Marco Fanno" Department of Economics and Management
Downloads 1,457
48.

Research and Policy Issues in High-Skilled International Migration: A Perspective with Data from the United States

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Sep 2001
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Mark C. Regets
National Foundation for America Policy
Downloads 1,386
49.

How Important is Past Analyst Forecast Accuracy?

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 57, No. 6, 2001
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 27 Jan 2000 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
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Lawrence D. Brown
Temple University - Department of Accounting

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Downloads 1,351
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Green HRM in Pursuit of Environmentally Sustainable Business

Universal Journal of Industrial and Business Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 74-81, June, 2015, ISSN: 2332-3310 (Print), ISSN: 2332-3329 (Online), Horizon Research Publishing Corporation, Alhambra, USA.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 08 Jul 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Kathak Mehta and Pawan K. Chugan
Nirma University, Students and Nirma University - Institute of Management
Downloads 1,345