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. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:20:01 +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 The State of Engagement between U.S. Corporations and Shareholders – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The State of Engagement between U.S. Corporations and Shareholders https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/03/15/the-state-of-engagement-between-u-s-corporations-and-shareholders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-state-of-engagement-between-u-s-corporations-and-shareholders https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/03/15/the-state-of-engagement-between-u-s-corporations-and-shareholders/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:15:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=16245?d=20150106100610EST Posted by Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Jon Lukomnik of the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and Marc Goldstein of Institutional Shareholder Services, and is an abridged version of a study conducted by ISS for the IRRC Institute, which is available here.

Study Summary

At a time when engagement is front and center in the public debate about corporate America, this study provides the first-ever benchmarking of the level of engagement between investors and public corporations (issuers) in the United States. As evidenced by the provisions of the Dodd-Frank legislation, various SEC rule-makings and the lawsuits contesting them, engagement has emerged as a central governance process for public companies in America. Despite that fact, there has never been a comprehensive picture of investor/corporate engagement and thus no consensus definition of engagement. This study attempts to rectify that lack. It surveyed 335 issuers of stock and 161 investors, including both asset owners (e.g. pension funds, trusts, etc.) and asset managers.

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