Michael Douglas, in his Academy Award winning portrayal of Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street,” declares in his famous “greed” speech that the company has “33 different vice presidents” that are ...

Why exclude state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from equity allocations? This a natural first question investors tend to ask when they hear of WisdomTree’s suite of ex-state-owned equity ETFs. The ...

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There's one argument floating around out there about the soaring inequality of the modern day and the manner in which CEO pay at public companies has risen so much. That argument being that as ...

As a small business owner, it's likely that you routinely employ other people to perform tasks and make decisions on your behalf. Delegating responsibility can take a lot of weight off your shoulders ...

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Blockchain technology produced a new business model; one that enables companies to profit through creating and releasing open-source code. The decentralisation of business orgs creates new corporate ...

The relationship between business owners and business management gets complicated when they're not the same people. One approach to understanding it is agency theory: Managers are agents for the ...

Mihir Desai, a professor of Harvard Business School and the author of "Wisdom of Finance" explains why having shareholders who are separate from the managers hold great danger for finance today.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The principal-agent problem in health care asserts that providers, being the imperfect agents of patients, will act to maximize their profits ...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Nov., 2008), pp. 1091-1102 (12 pages) Traceability can link the identity of cattle feeders with retail beef cuts. The economic problem for ...