The Law and Finance of Foundation Controlled Corporations
Applications for Spring 2025 are closed for this project.
Surprisingly, many large corporations across the world, are controlled and managed by nonprofit foundations, including Ikea, Carlsberg, and Rolex. These firms differ from standard profit-maximizing corporations because they are managed by nonprofits. The project explores the impact of foundation control on the performance of for-profit corporations, and the extent to which these corporations behave more sustainably.
Role: The role of the research assistant is to help in data collection and do data analysis. There may be a need for scraping tools to source some of the data.
Qualifications: Basic knowledge in finance, statistics and data analytics. Excel, Stata and Python.
Hours: 6-8 hrs
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Social Sciences