Title:  Board Composition and Corporate Fraud: Refining the Insider-Outsider Model

Presenter: Dr. Asuka Takaoka
Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, George Washington University Professor, Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University
 

Biography:
Dr. Asuka Takaoka is a Professor at the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University in Tokyo. Currently, she is also an affiliated visiting scholar of the sociology department at George Washington University. Previously, she was Associate Professor at GLOBIS University, after obtaining her D.B.A. from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

Dr. Takaoka's research focuses on corporate governance, particularly white-collar crimes and business ethics.  Her recent research was accepted by the Global Consortium in the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, and she presented her papers at the 2022/2021 Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. 

Prior to her academic career, she has a wealth of consulting experience spanning the globe. For the past 13 years, she has worked at the Frankfurt and Tokyo offices of McKinsey & Company, followed by executive assessment consulting in London and Tokyo. Most recently, she has taken the regional role in Asia for the assessment business at Willis Towers Watson.

The talk will be in the Wellford Conference Room, 2165E LeFrak hall, at 11:00 am.  First come, first serve seating.