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, 02 May 2026 11:30:00 +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 Toward Board Declassification in 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 Companies: The SRP’s Report for the 2012 and 2013 Proxy Seasons – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Toward Board Declassification in 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 Companies: The SRP’s Report for the 2012 and 2013 Proxy Seasons https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/02/25/toward-board-declassification-in-100-sp-500-and-fortune-500-companies-the-srps-report-for-the-2012-and-2013-proxy-seasons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toward-board-declassification-in-100-sp-500-and-fortune-500-companies-the-srps-report-for-the-2012-and-2013-proxy-seasons https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/02/25/toward-board-declassification-in-100-sp-500-and-fortune-500-companies-the-srps-report-for-the-2012-and-2013-proxy-seasons/#comments Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:12:40 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=60110?d=20141215165529EST Posted by Lucian Bebchuk, Scott Hirst and June Rhee, Shareholder Rights Project, on Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Editor's Note:

Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is a counsel at the SRP. The SRP, a clinical program operating at Harvard Law School, works on behalf of public pension funds and charitable organizations seeking to improve corporate governance at publicly traded companies, as well as on research and policy projects related to corporate governance. Any views expressed and positions taken by the SRP and its representatives should be attributed solely to the SRP and not to Harvard Law School or Harvard University. The work of the SRP has been discussed in other posts on the Forum available here.

Editor’s Note:

The Shareholder Rights Project (SRP) just released its final report for the 2012 and 2013 proxy seasons, the SRP’s first two years year of operations. As the report details, major results obtained include the following:

  • 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies (listed here) entered into agreements to move toward declassification;
  • 81 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies (listed here) declassified their boards; these companies have aggregate market capitalization exceeding one trillion dollars, and represent about two-thirds of the companies with which engagement took place;
  • 58 successful declassification proposals (listed here), with average support of 81% of votes cast; and
  • Proposals by SRP-represented investors represented over 50% of all successful precatory proposals by public pension funds and over 20% of all successful precatory proposals by all proponents.

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