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, 12 Apr 2026 11:30:18 +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 Policy Survey Shows a Shifting Stewardship Landscape, and Diverging Investor Views Across Regions – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Policy Survey Shows a Shifting Stewardship Landscape, and Diverging Investor Views Across Regions https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/10/31/policy-survey-shows-a-shifting-stewardship-landscape-and-diverging-investor-views-across-regions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=policy-survey-shows-a-shifting-stewardship-landscape-and-diverging-investor-views-across-regions https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/10/31/policy-survey-shows-a-shifting-stewardship-landscape-and-diverging-investor-views-across-regions/#respond Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:32:29 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=177487?d=20251030152438EDT Posted by Brianna Castro, Silvia Gatti, and Krishna Shah, Glass Lewis, on Friday, October 31, 2025
Editor's Note:

Brianna Castro is a Vice President, and Silvia Gatti and Krishna Shah are Senior Directors at Glass Lewis. This post is based on a Glass Lewis memorandum by Ms. Castro, Ms. Gatti, Ms. Shah, Courteney Keatinge, and Dimitri Zagoroff.

Key Takeaways:

  • 85 percent of investors and 76 percent of non-investors say they do not base governance votes solely on financial performance.
  • With Texas and Nevada amending their laws to attract more companies, 50 percent of investors are focusing more on shareholder rights when assessing reincorporation.
  • 44 percent of U.S. investors view the CEO-to-median-employee pay ratio as “not important”, compared to just 8 percent of non-U.S. investors.
  • U.S. based investors are far more likely to ignore diversity factors in their evaluation of boards (42%) compared to investors from other regions (6%).

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