YouTube Videos for the Corporate Governance course

YouTube contains millions of videos on everything. Many videos treat economics and finance topics. The Teaching notes contain the link to some YouTube videos that allow students to put theory into practice, giving an in-depth of the arguments treated in the Chapters through some selected examples that are useful for the learning. Moreover at least one question of the written exam will be on the content of the YouTube videos to study

Extract from the Teaching notes: Example of links to YouTube videos

Following the link to some videos contained in the teaching notes.

Pre-course videos

Corporate performance

• What are US GAAP and IFRS (min 00:11:05)
• Financial Statements Explained (min 00:11:19)
  • A Balance Sheet Example (min 00:06:50)
  • Income Statement Example (min 00:06:19)
  • The cash flow statement (min 00:17:48)
• Return on equity (ROE)
• Earnings Per Share Explained (EPS) (min 00:01:11)
• Dividend (min 00:01:14)

Corporate governance failure

• Corporate collapse (min 00:04:35)
• Enron, Worldcom, Tyco vs. Fannie/Freddie (min 00:03:35)
• Documentary: Inside Job (min 01:44:12)
• Documentary: The Corporation (min 02:24:04)

The actors of corporate governance

Introduction to corporate governance

• Stakeholders (min 00:09:47)
  • What Are Stakeholders? - R. Edward Freeman (min 00:02:06)
• Interview: Some basic concepts in corporate governance (Prof. William Ouchi) (min 00:07:01)
• Corporate governance (min 00:52:27)
• Importance of Corporate Governance for Business (01:19:49)

Type of business entities

• Types and Features of Business Entities (min 00:10:49)
• Multinational Corporations (min 00:08:04)

Corporate structure

• The Basics of Corporate Structure (min 00:02:50)
• Understanding A Company's Corporate Structure (min 00:01:08)

Board of directors

• Company Directors - Good Board Meetings (min 00:07:29)
• Interview: In the Boardroom: should CEOs sit on boards? (min 00:07:29)
• The technological Boardroom: Peppermill executive board (min 00:03:37)
• Are You a Leader? - Motivating (min 00:02:45)

Chairman

• Centrica's Chairman Sir Roger Carr on the Role of the Chairman (min 00:10:33)

Chief Executive Officer

• Interview: John Chambers on the role of a CEO (min 00:01:41)
• Interview: Motorola Solutions Chairman & CEO Greg Brown on Communication (min 00:13:15) - to watch
• Interview: Starbucks' CEO Talks Business (min 00:23:02)

Ownership and control

• The Family Business - Part One (min 00:05:19) and Part two (min 00:04:34)
• Corporate Governance in Action: FIAT Group: Jhon Elkan (Ultimate controlling party) at the 21st Summit of the Family Business Network in Chicago; and Sergio Marchionne (CEO of Fiat group) Resurrecting Chrysler
• Corporate Governance in Action: Starbucks 2012 Shareholder Meeting Keynote (min 00:31:33)
• Corporate Governance in Action: Walmart Shareholders Meeting 2011 - Financial Report (min 00:10:00)
• Lecture: Shareholder Activism Series | Activist Investing: Background, Impact and the Players (min 01:08:27)
• Corporate Governance in Action: Betty Martini addressing Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent at the 2011 Shareholders Meeting (min 00:3:45)

Direction

• Corporate Strategy (Prof. Richard Rumelt) (min 00:04:47)
• Competitive Strategy (Prof. Michael Porter) (min 01:04:33)

Business Groups and their ultimate controlling party

Business groups

• IAS 27: Consolidated and Separate Financial Statements (min 00:09:30)
• IAS 28: Investments in Associates mind map (min 00:02:37)
• IAS 31: Joint Venture (min 00:01:39)

The Corporate Governance systems

Shareholder theory, agency theory, stewardship theory

• Shareholder Theory: Greed (Milton Friedman) (min 00:02:23)
• Shareholder Theory: Milton Friedman Schools Young Idealist (Milton Friedman) (min 00:02:22)
• Government Regulation (Milton Friedman) (min 00:07:50)
• Shareholder Theory: Morality & Capitalism (Milton Friedman) (min 00:08:33)
• Interview: What is the Agency Theory Of Corporate Governance? (min 00:00:58)
• Agency theory basics (min 00:01:32)
• Busy Secretary: The Principal-Agent Problem (min 00:04:18)
• What is the Stewardship Theory of Corporate Governance? (min 00:01:05)

Stakeholder theory, team production theory, corporate social responsibility and business ethics

• Interview: Stakeholder Theory (Prof. R. Edward Freeman) (min 00:3:22)
• Interview: Shareholders vs. Stakeholders: Friedman vs. Freeman Debate (Prof. R. Edward Freeman) (min 00:01:18)
• Lecture: Who's Minding the Store? The Ethics of Corporate Governance (Prof. Lynn A. Stout) (min 00:11:16)
• Lecture: Making The Hard Call: The Unheralded Role of Corporate Boards of Directors (Prof. Margaret Blair) (min 00:49:18)
• Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (min 00:01:11)

Related party transactions

• Related party transactions (min 00:11:39)

Other Videos

• Milton Friedman - Power of the Market (min 00:57:51)

• The Financial Crisis and The Future of Capitalism (min 00:05:57)
• Rethinking Capitalism (Prof. Michael Porter) (min 16:40)
• What do shareholders really value? (Prof. Lynn A. Stout) (min 00:31:32)