General links
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Corporate Governance Links  |
| TIAA-CREF Policy Statement on Corporate Governance |
| CalPERS Corporate Governance Web Site |
| Business Week: Executive Compensation Scoreboard |
| AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch |
| Online Investor: Stock Repurchase Plans Announces This Week |
| The International Corporate Governance Network |
| Global Corporate Governance Forum |
| Business Roundtable Corporate Governance |
| Cadbury Committee on Corporate Governance |
| The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Community Forum |
| The Riley Guides: Salary and Compensation Information |
| USA Today: Overpaid Execs |
| Forbes: NYSE Grasso Overpaid by Any Measure |
| Wall Street Journal: Stock Buybacks Aren't Always a Good Sign For Investors |
| Investopedia: The Lowdown on Stock Buybacks |
| Motley Fool: Do Buybacks Add Value? |
| Stock Buybacks: Corporate 'Cabbage Patch' Dolls of the 1990s |
Regulation of Stock Repurchase Programs under Federal Securities Laws  |
| FASB: Transition Guides for Stock Options |
| Wharton: Expensing Stock Options: Can FASB Prevail? |
| Corporate Greed Activists: SaveStockOptions.org |
| What's Driving Stock Buybacks? |
| The 'True' Cost of Stock Options |
| Western Banking Magazine: The Stock Buyback |
| Buybacks Are Bunk |
| Repurchase Plans Announced This Week |
| What's Driving Return on Equity |
| The CPA Journal: Corporate Share Buybacks |
| Forbes: Sandy Weill is Wildly Overpaid. Greed at the top of CitiCorp |
| Bloomberg: U.S. CEO Pay Averages |
| Cox Family Enterprise Center |
| Forbes: America's Largest Private Companies |
| CFO Careers: Ethics Going Downhill, Execs Say... |
| Business Week: MBAs Learn to Put Ethics Last ... |
| Establishing Effective Boards |
| Development of Corporate Performance Measures |
| Improving Performance Measures: Beyond Financials |
| Aligning Performance Measures with Business Strategy |
| Non-Financial Performance Measures |
| The Association of MBAs |
| National Black MBA Association |
| Report of the 3rd Annual Gay/Lesbian MBA Conference |
| Dartmouth University: Tuck School of Business Gay/Straight Alliance |
| Gay & Lesbian Student Association of the Harvard Business School |
| Yale School of Management: From the Closet to the Boardroom |
| Virginia's MBA Programs Split on Ethics |
| Economist Magazine: The MBA -- Some History.. |
| Financial Planning Toolkit: Golden Parachutes |
| Dr. T's Economic Links |
Specific Links: Nonfinancial Business
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| Survey of Current Business |
| U.S. Census Bureau: 1997 Economic Census: Manufacturing |
| U.S. Census Bureau: 1997 Economic Census: Mining |
| U.S. Census Bureau: 1997 Economic Census: Construction |
| BEA: Current Business: Farm Statistics |
| Open Secrets: Political Contributions by Industry |
| Open Secrets: Top Industries Giving to Members of Congress |
| Fed. Reserve Release G.19: Consumer Credit: Nonfinancial Business |
| St Louis Fed: Nonfinancial Corporate Business, Profit After Tax |
| Federal Reserve Board OSS-1: Productivity and Unit Costs Study Data |
| Small Business Statistics and Research |
| Bureau of the Census: Statistics about Business Size |
| BEA: Current Business: Nonfinancial Business Statistics |
| BEA: Current Business: Nonfarm Statistics |
| Survey of Business Owners |
Specific Links: Nonfarm Nonfinancial Corporate Business
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| Survey of Current Business |
| U.S. Census Bureau: 1997 Economic Census: Manufacturing |
| U.S. Census Bureau: 1997 Economic Census: Mining |
| U.S. Census Bureau: 1997 Economic Census: Construction |
| Open Secrets: Who Gives to Members of Congress |
| Fed. Reserve Statistical Release G.19: Consumer Credit: Nonfinancial Business |
| St Louis Fed: Nonfinancial Corporate Business, Profit After Tax |
| Federal Reserve Board OSS-1: Productivity and Unit Costs Study Data |
| U.S. Census Bureau: Business Publications |
| NYU Stern School: S&P 500 Dividend and Earnings Yield Since 1960 |
| Yahoo Finance: Industry Center |
| Morningstar Industry Returns |
| The Virtual Chase: Public Company SEC Filings and Sources of Trading Data. |
| AIMR: Long Term Historical Corporate Data |
| Yale University: Old New York Stock Exchange Project 1815-1925 |
| NYSE Dividend Yields: 1825-1925 |
| Fundamental Valuations of S&P 500 Stocks |
| Age Cohort Analysis and the S&P 500 Dividend Yield |
| IMF: Explaining the Dividend Yield in the United States. |
| Cleveland Fed: Why is Dividend Yield So Low? |
| Dividend Yield for Stocks in the Dow Jones Average |
| UCLA: Changing Motives for Share Repurchases |
| University of Rochester: Managerial Timing and Corporate Liquidity |
| Actual Share Repurchases and Corporate Liquidity |
| Federal Reserve: Stock Repurchases in the 1990s |
| BEA: Current Business: Nonfinancial Business Statistics |
| Survey of Business Owners |
Books
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| 'Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to do About It', Paperback, Ichak Adizes
Why corporations change. A must-read for buy-and-hold investors. |
| 'Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL TimeWarner', Hardcover, Alec Klein
How the largest merger in U.S. history became the disaster of the century. |
| Corporate Financing Week
For investment bankers and corporate financial managers, with news and trends in corporate finance. |
| 'Entrepreneur', Magazine Subscription |
| Harvard Business Review
This Gospel of the Harvard Business School is avidly read by business executives. It provides an insight into the minds of MBAs (monthly). |
| 'Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practices of Managing and Management Development', Hardcover, Henry Mintzberg
Managers should leave behind stronger organizations, not higher share prices. |
| 'The Essays of Warren Buffet: Lessons for Corporate America', Paperback, Warren Buffet
Price is what you pay and value is what you get |
| 'The Cost of Talent: How Executives and Professionals and Paid and How it Affects America', Hardcover, Derek Bok
The Dean of the Harvard Law Schools well-researched book on executive greed. |
| 'Corporate Executions: The Ugly Truth About Layoffs-How Corporate Greed Is Shattering Lives, Companies, and Communities', Paperback, Alan Downs, Adrienne Hickey |
| 'The Executive Career Guide for MBAs: Insiders' Guide to Getting to the Top from Today's Business Leaders', Hardcover, Richard H. Beatty
A good source book on how today's professional managers think. |
| 'The New Machiavelli: The Art of Politics in Business', Paperback, Alistair McAlpine
More important than an MBA for those working in professionally managed corporations. |
