Discover strategies to resolve agency conflicts in corporations, including monitoring, incentives, and contract design, to align manager and shareholder interests.

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The bond rating industry’s 100th anniversary is this year. Rating agencies have lately been in the news and before congressional committees for less salutary reasons—the role that they played in ...

The administration’s Centers of Excellence (CoE) initiative has “pivoted” from applying all its areas of expertise to agency problems to only the most relevant ones, according to the acting executive ...

Almost no one disputes that the rating agencies played a major role in bringing on the financial crisis. To further investigate the mistakes they made, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO – It wasn’t just another meeting at Catholic Charities of San Antonio that Thursday morning. Nearly 100 employees attended the Oct. 3 event known as the State of the Agency conference at ...

SOMEONE WISE once said that all the problems of capitalism are agency problems. Agency costs arise when somebody (the principal) delegates a task to somebody else (the agent) and their interests are ...

The head of the Defense Contract Audit Agency this week issued a memorandum documenting progress in addressing widespread management problems identified in a July 2008 Government Accountability Office ...

The first five months of 2020 sent a parade of “wicked problems” around the globe, including a plague of locusts in Asia and Africa, bushfires in Australia and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic.