Mestrado de MarketingThis disscrtation aims to find if a strong Corporate Brand contributes positively to the market value of the firm. The sample in use corresponds to 362 US companics from COMPUSTAT database that were also considered by Fortune in 2002 to coustruct the America's Most. Admired Companies index. The results obtained provide empirical evidence supporting the main hypothesis of tbe study and are consistent with existing branding theory, that brand activities create shareholders value by increasing the future cash fows. The findings are robust after controlling for other varittbles thatt are known from financial theory to impact the firm value and also after correcting the Fortune index for what is known to be the financial halo effect, i.e. by removing the effect created by the past financial performance.N/
