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Do Academic Directors Promote Corporate Social Responsibility?
We find significant evidence that academic directors enhance firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance after examining a sample of S&P 1,500 firms for years 2002 to 2011. The presence of academic directors in corporate board increases firms’ CSR performance. Within academic …
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By Chance or by Design: the Organizational Identification of Academic Directors in Academic Medical Centers in the U.S.
Academic medical centers (AMCs) are complex, bureaucratic organizations with multiple, interconnected missions and constituencies. What happens in the classroom affects the operating room and lab. Clinical medical school faculty who become clerkship or course directors (called “academic directors” …
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Two Essays on Corporate Governance
The first essay shows that academic directors significantly increase firms' innovation. Following an academic director's death and relative to a non-academic director's death, the average firm reduces the number of citation-weighted patent applications by 30.7%. The number of patent applications …