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. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:30:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.13 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png The Evolving Direction and Increasing Influence of Shareholder Activism – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The Evolving Direction and Increasing Influence of Shareholder Activism https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/12/23/the-evolving-direction-and-increasing-influence-of-shareholder-activism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-evolving-direction-and-increasing-influence-of-shareholder-activism https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/12/23/the-evolving-direction-and-increasing-influence-of-shareholder-activism/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:18:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=56820?d=20141216093155EST Posted by Scott Hirst, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Monday, December 23, 2013
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from John J. Madden, Of Counsel and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Shearman & Sterling LLP, and is based on an article that first appeared in Directors & Boards.

When we convened our Corporate Governance Symposium last year (October 2012), we highlighted the increasingly important role shareholders were playing in the corporate decision-making process, commenting as follows:

“Over the course of the past year, we have continued to see shareholders making their voices heard, in some cases rather forcefully and effectively, on a broad range of corporate issues. In many ways, the recent developments in corporate governance reinforce the growing perception that we are, and have been for several years, experiencing a potentially fundamental shift in the balance of authority, or influence, between boards of directors and shareholders in the corporate decision-making process, moving further away from the longstanding board primacy model of corporate governance.”

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