The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Corporate Governance of the 100 Largest US Public Companies – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Corporate Governance of the 100 Largest US Public Companies https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/08/22/corporate-governance-of-the-100-largest-us-public-companies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corporate-governance-of-the-100-largest-us-public-companies https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/08/22/corporate-governance-of-the-100-largest-us-public-companies/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:17:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=11977?d=20150120100746EST Posted by Scott Hirst, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Sunday, August 22, 2010
Editor's Note:

This post comes to us from John J. Madden, a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Shearman & Sterling LLP, and is based on Shearman & Sterling’s annual survey of selected corporate governance practices of the largest US public companies. The Survey is available here.

Without question, the role of public company boards and their corporate governance policies and practices continue to face intense scrutiny. That much of this scrutiny comes from shareholder activists and institutional investors comes as no surprise. Demands from these shareholders for greater “shareholder democracy” and involvement in corporate governance have been growing in line with the remarkable increases in the size of institutional investors’ portfolios over recent decades. Pressures brought by investors on corporate governance practices and policies have become even more acute in the last three years.

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