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  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

July–August 2016 Harvard Business Review Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams By: Bernstein, Ethan, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee Abstract—Holacracy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach

By: Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen
We summarize our new positive theory of integrity that has no normative content, and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance—into both the theory and practice of finance. We define integrity as being whole and complete and unbroken. We... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Ethics; Theory; Practice; Change
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Erhard, Werner, and Michael C. Jensen. "Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-074, April 2012. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19986, April 2014.)
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

owners of a corporation, professional managers and directors are their agents, primarily responsible for carrying out their wishes and creating value for them. This idea was further developed in a 1976 article by Michael View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

  PublicationsSelling to Many Countries—Within the U.S. Authors:Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Wong Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 52, no. 1 (fall 2010) Abstract In pursuing growth, many companies have plans to sell to emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1994
  • Chapter

The Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow: Corporate Finance and Takeovers

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Cost; Cash Flow; Acquisition; Corporate Finance
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Jensen, Michael. "The Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow: Corporate Finance and Takeovers." In Management Buy-Outs, edited by Mike Wright and Keith Bradley, series editor, pp. 3–9. International Library of Management. England and Vermont: Dartmouth Publishing, 1994. (Also in AER, Vol. 76, No. 2 (May, 1986); abridged in Simon Management Rev, (Win, 1986); & forthcoming in Jensen, Management Revolution: The Legacy of the Market for Corporate Control, Harvard University Press.)
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Integrity: Without It Nothing Works

By: Michael C. Jensen
There is confusion between integrity, morality and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality" (available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=920625)) my co-authors,... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Moral Sensibility; Legal Liability; Behavior
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Jensen, Michael C. "Integrity: Without It Nothing Works." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-042, November 2009.
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-109.pdf Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach Authors:Werner Erhard and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 1984
  • Chapter

Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

By: Michael Jensen and William H. Meckling
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Management Style; Ownership; Organizational Structure; Theory
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Jensen, Michael, and William H. Meckling. "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure." In The Modern Theory of Corporate Finance, edited by Michael C. Jensen and Clifford H. Smith Jr.. McGraw-Hill, 1984. (Also in Economics of Corporation Law & Securities Regulation, Posner & Scott, Eds, (Little Brown,1980); Jensen, Foundations of Organizational Strategy, (HUP, 1998); & Theory of the Firm. . . (HUP, 2000) and JFE.)
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger

This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Attitudes; Perception; Technology; United States
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Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari Granger. "Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-124, October 2010.
  • 1972
  • Chapter

The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Some Empirical Tests

By: Fischer Black, Michael C. Jensen and Myron Scholes
Keywords: Capital; Asset Pricing; Mathematical Methods
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Black, Fischer, Michael C. Jensen, and Myron Scholes. "The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Some Empirical Tests." In Studies in the Theory of Capital Markets, edited by M. C. Jensen. New York: Praeger, 1972.
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the causal link between integrity and increased... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Performance Productivity; Information Technology; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Legal Liability; Cost vs Benefits
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Erhard, Werner H., Michael C. Jensen, and Steve Zaffron. "Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-061, February 2010.
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

such as Michael Jensen and Oliver Williamson began, in the 1970s, to develop a new theory of the firm that treated it not as a "black box" that converted inputs into outputs but rather as an... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

investment vehicles. What's the reason for these phenomena? According to one report, Michael Jensen and Kevin Murphy, in a book to be published in the next several months, CEO Pay and What to Do About It,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 1984
  • Comment

Capital Structure Change and Decreases in Stockholders' Wealth

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Capital Structure; Wealth; Loss
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Jensen, Michael. Comment on "Capital Structure Change and Decreases in Stockholders' Wealth." National Bureau of Economic Research Proceedings of Conference on Corporate Capital Structures in the United States. University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • 1992
  • Chapter

Arbitrage, Information Theft, and Insider Trading

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Financial Markets; Information; Ethics
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Jensen, Michael. "Arbitrage, Information Theft, and Insider Trading." In New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell. London: Macmillan Press, 1992. (Earlier version, Arbitrage, Information Theft, and the Mistaken Attack On Insider Trading, published in "Chief Financial Officer U.S.A.", John Thackray, ed. (Sterling Publications, London: 1988), pp. 114-115.)
  • 1972
  • Chapter

The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period 1945-1964

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Investment Funds; Performance; Financial Services Industry
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Jensen, Michael. "The Performance of Mutual Funds in the Period 1945-1964." In Investment Management: Some Readings, edited by J. Lorie and R. Brealey. Praeger, 1972. (Previously published in Journal of Finance (May, 1968))
  • 1998
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Divisional Performance Measurement

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity
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Jensen, Michael. "Divisional Performance Measurement." In Foundations of Organizational Strategy, by Michael C. Jensen, 345–361. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • 1970
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The Time Series Behavior of Earnings: Discussion

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Business Earnings; Mathematical Methods
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Jensen, Michael. "The Time Series Behavior of Earnings: Discussion." In Empirical Research in Accounting: Selected Studies. University of Chicago, Institute of Professional Accounting, 1970.
  • 1971
  • Chapter

Risk, the Pricing of Capital Assets, and the Evaluation of Investment Portfolios

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; Asset Pricing; Performance Evaluation
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Jensen, Michael. "Risk, the Pricing of Capital Assets, and the Evaluation of Investment Portfolios." In Frontiers of Investment Analysis, edited by E. Bruce Fredrikson. International Textbook Company, 1971. (Previously published in Journal of Business, Vol. 42 (April, 1969))
  • 1986
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Takeovers: The Controversy and the Evidence

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Acquisition
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Jensen, Michael. "Takeovers: The Controversy and the Evidence." In Proceedings of the William G. Karnes Symposium on Mergers and Acquisitions, edited by Charles M. Linke. University of Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bureau of Economic and Business Research, 1986.
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