A breakfast chat with Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart on Corporate Social Responsibility
King's alumnus, Honorary Fellow, and Nobel Prize winner in Economics Oliver Hart will be visiting King's E-Lab on Thursday 5th of May at 08.45 for a breakfast chat on “Corporate Social Responsibility”. Oliver matriculated at King's in 1966 reading Mathematics before going to Warwick to do a Diploma and MPhil in Economics and then a PhD at Princeton.
Oliver Hart is currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Hart’s research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. His recent work focuses on how parties can write better contracts, and on the social responsibility of business. He has published a book (Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure, Oxford University Press, 1995) and numerous journal articles. He has used his theoretical work on firms and contracts in several legal cases. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and has several honorary degrees. He has been president of the American Law and Economics Association and a vice president of the American Economic Association.
For an extended bio see this Journal of Finance webpage.
WHEN: Thursday 5th of May at 08.45 (yes, it's early in the morning!)
WHERE: King’s College, Cambridge