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, 20 Jul 2026 20:07:07 +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 Will The New Shareholder-Director Exchange Achieve Its Potential? – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Will The New Shareholder-Director Exchange Achieve Its Potential? https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/02/13/will-the-new-shareholder-director-exchange-achieve-its-potential/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-the-new-shareholder-director-exchange-achieve-its-potential https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/02/13/will-the-new-shareholder-director-exchange-achieve-its-potential/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:35:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=59902?d=20141202154739EST Posted by Carl Icahn, Icahn Enterprises, on Thursday, February 13, 2014
Editor's Note:

Carl Icahn is the majority shareholder of Icahn Enterprises. The following post is based on a commentary featured today at the Shareholders’ Square Table.

The recent announcement of the formation of the Shareholder-Director Exchange, a new group that aims to facilitate direct communication between institutional shareholders (namely, mutual funds and pension programs) and non-management directors of the U.S. public companies they own, has been accompanied by a flurry of articles regarding the purposes and possibilities of this new group. From my perspective, the Shareholder-Director Exchange has tremendous potential to help improve corporate governance and performance in this country.

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