ZHAO
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
TAO, R., J. WU, H. ZHAO, "Interfirm spread of corporate social responsibility: the role of overlapping directors", Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, March 2025