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. Sun, 17 May 2026 11:30:53 +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 CalSTRS Releases First Annual Corporate Governance Report – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 CalSTRS Releases First Annual Corporate Governance Report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/10/10/calstrs-releases-first-annual-corporate-governance-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=calstrs-releases-first-annual-corporate-governance-report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/10/10/calstrs-releases-first-annual-corporate-governance-report/#comments Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:37:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=53717?d=20150106125026EST Posted by Anne Sheehan, California State Teachers’ Retirement System, on Thursday, October 10, 2013
Editor's Note:

Anne Sheehan is Director of Corporate Governance at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. The following post relates to the CalSTRS Corporate Governance 2013 Annual Report, available here.

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) was established in 1913 for the benefit of California’s public school teachers. This year we celebrate our 100th anniversary serving the retirement needs of our 862,000 members and beneficiaries. The long-term nature of CalSTRS liabilities, and our responsibilities as fiduciaries to the educators of California, makes us keenly interested in governance issues that affect our investment portfolio. We expect the companies in our portfolio to be responsible stewards of our capital and we have an obligation to effectively engage those companies while balancing risks and rewards.

This year, CalSTRS published its inaugural corporate governance report to communicate our governance program priorities to the investment community. While we pursue a variety of initiatives throughout the year, our engagements focused on four main themes:
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