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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Yes, Many CEOs of US Public Companies Really Are Overpaid…
Editor’s Note: This post is by Broc Romanek of TheCorporateCounsel.net. Here is a response to Professor Kaplan’s comments on the recent New York Times article about private equity funds. While it’s true that some private equity funds are luring sitting CEOs with higher pay, I think it’s far from a widespread trend. There are about 14,000 sitting […]
Click here to read the complete postNational Bureau of Economic Research / Review of Financial Studies Conference on Corporate Governance
Michael Weisbach and I are co-organizing a conference, jointly sponsored by the corporate governance project of the NBER and The Review of Financial Studies. Here is the call for papers: Corporate governance deals with the set of institutions designed to ensure that suppliers of finance recieve a return on their investment. It is now widely […]
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Tagged Firm performance, NBER
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Are CEOs of U.S. Public Companies Really Overpaid?
Editor’s Note: This post is by Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago I was shocked (but encouraged) to read the New York Times yesterday. Instead of writing another article about how CEOs are massively overpaid, dishonest, or both, Andrew Sorkin and Eric Dash make a strong argument that U.S. CEOs are underpaid! According to the […]
Click here to read the complete postOne Bite of the Apple
The Wall Street Journal published today my op-ed piece on backdating and corporate governance. The piece, which builds on the Lucky CEOs and Lucky Directors studies discussed earlier in this blog, discusses backdating in Apple Computer and beyond. Here is what it says: Apple Computer annoucned a week ago the conclusions of a special board […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, Executive Compensation, Op-Eds & Opinions
Tagged Apple, Backdating, Executive Compensation
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Court Rejects Settlement of Claims Challenging Private-Equity Deal
Editor’s Note:This post is part of the Delaware law series, which is cosponsored by the Forum and Corporation Service Company; links to other posts in the series are available here. In a recent opinion in In re SS&C Technologies, Vice Chancellor Lamb refuses to approve a proposed settlement of claims challenging a management buy-out led by […]
Click here to read the complete postDirectors Ignore Majority-Shareholder Malfeasance at their Peril
In an opinion issued yesterday in ATR-Kim Eng Financial v. PMHI Holdings, Vice Chancellor Strine concludes that two directors breached their duty of loyalty to a minority shareholder by standing by silently while the majority shareholder essentially liquidated the corporation’s assets and placed them into entities controlled by his family. The court concludes that the […]
Click here to read the complete postLucky CEOs and Directors: How Serious Is the Problem?
Editor’s Note: This post is by Larry Ribstein, University of Illinois College of Law, www.ideoblog.org I appreciate the opportunity I’ve been given to post on this Harvard blog. Appropriately enough, I’m going to start with a response to the work highlighted on this blog of Bebchuk, Grinstein & Peyer (BGP) in Lucky Directors and Lucky […]
Click here to read the complete postAnd What a Year It Was!
Editor’s Note: This post is by TheCorporateCounsel.net With the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the rear-view mirror for 4 years now, one would think that this would have been a quiet year for corporate governance developments. To the contrary, it was arguably the most dramatic year of change in recent history. Here is a snapshot of some […]
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Tagged Executive Compensation, Majority voting, SOX
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