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ZHAO Hong

PhD, Business Administration, Finance

Hong Zhao is an Associate Professor of Finance at NEOMA Business School in France. He graduated from Arizona State University with a PhD in Finance in 2017. He teaches Capital Budgeting and Financing, Corporate Governance, and Sustainable Finance. Hong's research interests fall under the broad label of empirical corporate finance, with a focus on corporate governance and corporate social responsibilities. His current papers investigate how managerial incentives and board structures affect firm performance. He also has worked on the inter-firm spread of corporate social responsibility and the role of corporate social responsibility in supply-chain management. He has published on these topics in Corporate Governance: An International Review, International Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Corporate Finance.

 

Areas of research

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance
  • Managerial incentives
  • Corporate Social Responsibility

Recent academic contributions

  • TAO, R., H. ZHAO, J. WU, "Do Corporate Customers Prefer Socially Responsible Suppliers? An Instrumental Stakeholder Theory Perspective", Journal of Business Ethics, July 2023, vol. 185, no. 3, pp. 689 - 712
    DOI : 10.1007/s10551-022-05171-5
  • BELAOUNIA, S., R. TAO, H. ZHAO, "Director foreign experience: Geographic specificity and value implication", International Review of Financial Analysis, October 2023
    DOI : 10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102998
  • ZHAO, H., "Management team cultural alignment and mergers and acquisitions", Finance Research Letters, May 2022, vol. 46, no. Part B
    DOI : 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102448

Article

  • BELAOUNIA, S., R. TAO, H. ZHAO, "Director foreign experience: Geographic specificity and value implication", International Review of Financial Analysis, October 2023
    DOI : 10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102998
  • TAO, R., H. ZHAO, J. WU, "Do Corporate Customers Prefer Socially Responsible Suppliers? An Instrumental Stakeholder Theory Perspective", Journal of Business Ethics, July 2023, vol. 185, no. 3, pp. 689 - 712
    DOI : 10.1007/s10551-022-05171-5
  • ZHAO, H., "Network Connections within Committees and Board Governance Effectiveness", Corporate Governance: An International Review, July 2022, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 421-441
    DOI : 10.1111/corg.12409
  • ZHAO, H., "Management team cultural alignment and mergers and acquisitions", Finance Research Letters, May 2022, vol. 46, no. Part B
    DOI : 10.1016/j.frl.2021.102448
  • BELAOUNIA, S., R. TAO, H. ZHAO, "Gender equality's impact on female directors’ efficacy: A multi-country study", International Business Review, October 2020, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 101737
    DOI : 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2020.101737
  • BELAOUNIA, S., R.TAO, H.ZHAO, "Women Improve Boards", BizEd, December 2020
  • TAO, R., H.ZHAO, "“Passing the Baton”: The Effects of CEO Succession Planning on Firm Performance and Volatility", Corporate Governance: An International Review, January 2019, no. 27, pp. 61-78
    DOI : 10.1111/corg.12251
  • STEIN, L., H.ZHAO, "Independent Executive Directors: How Distraction Affects Their Advisory and Monitoring Roles", Journal of Corporate Finance, May 2019, no. 56, pp. 199-223
    DOI : 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2019.02.003
  • TAO, R., H.ZHAO, "Crime Rate, Housing Price, and Value of A Statistical Case of Homicide", Economics Bulletin, September 2019, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1727-1739
  • ZHAO, H., "Executive Labor Market Segmentation: How Local Market Density Affects Incentives and Performance", Journal of Corporate Finance, June 2018, vol. 50, pp. 1-28
    DOI : 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2018.03.001

Participation at an academic or professional conference

  • ZHAO, H., L.STEIN, "Distracted Directors" University of Texas Austin. 2016, Arizona, United States
  • ZHAO, H., "Executive Labor Market Segmentation: How Local Market Density Affects Incentives and Performance" Arizona State University (2015) - Job Market Paper. 2015, Arizona, United States
  • ZHAO, H., "Passing the Baton”: The Effects of CEO Succession Planning on Firm Performance and Volatility" Arizona State University. 2014, Arizona, United States

Professional journals

  • BELAOUNIA, S., H. ZHAO, R. TAO, "Femmes dans les conseils d’administration : le contexte socio-culturel compte plus que les quotas", The Conversation, November 2020