Evaluate students' ability to analyze how corporate governance structures (board composition, ownership concentration, executive compensation, shareholder rights, dual‑class shares) affect firm risk‑taking and shareholder value in publicly traded multinational firms; assess interpretation of empirical measures (leverage, volatility, R&D intensity, Tobin’s Q, ROE), critique research designs (OLS, IV, event studies, endogeneity concerns), and formulate evidence‑based governance recommendations that account for cross‑border regulatory and market differences.