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- Peter Atkins
- David Bell
- Kerry E. Berchem
- Richard Brand
- Daniel Burch
- Paul Choi
- Jesse Cohn
- Arthur B. Crozier Christine Davine
- Renata J. Ferrari
- Andrew Freedman
- Ray Garcia
- Byron Georgiou
- Joseph Hall
- Jason M. Halper William P. Mills
- David Millstone
- Theodore Mirvis
- Philip Richter
- Elina Tetelbaum
- Sebastian Tiller
- Marc Trevino Jonathan Watkins
- Steven J. Williams
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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Companies are Trust Leaders. Here’s What That Means for Boards
Confidence in the institutions that form the bedrock of society is perilously low. Surveys show that many people have lost faith in government, the media, and the police, among other institutions. Meanwhile, corporations have emerged as leaders. They’re now the most trusted institution in the US according to the Edelman Trust Barometer. Maintaining this trust, […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, Boards of Directors, ESG, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Accountability, Board oversight, Boards of Directors, Corporate culture, Corporate Social Responsibility, Disclosure, ESG, Human capital, Reputation, Stakeholders
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Considering a Culturally Congruent EESG and DEI Component in Incentive Plans
During a recent compensation committee meeting, the CEO expressed some level of frustration with the public discourse on including EESG (Employee, Environment, Social, and Governance) goals—specifically, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)—into executive incentive plans. “Our culture is all about equity, diversity, and inclusion,” she exclaimed. “Why should we be bonusing our culture?” The impetus for […]
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Posted in ESG, Executive Compensation, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Bonuses, Corporate culture, Diversity, ESG, Executive Compensation, Incentives, Pay for performance
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Labor in the Age of Finance
My new book, Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank (Princeton University Press, 2021), is an economic history of organized labor’s engagement with shareholder activism, corporate governance, and financial regulation in the 1990s and 2000s. An epilogue carries the narrative to the present. The proximate cause of labor’s […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Comparative Corporate Governance & Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG, Financial Regulation
Tagged Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG, Financial regulation, Labor markets, Ownership, Pension funds, Securities regulation, Stakeholders, Unions
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SPAC-Related Litigation Risks and Mitigation Strategies
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have been gaining traction during the past 18 months, although more recently they have come under the spotlight for more negative reasons. Following high-profile litigation associated with certain de-SPAC deals and statements from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), many investors are now starting to question SPACs as an investment […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, Mergers & Acquisitions, Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement, Securities Regulation
Tagged Conflicts of interest, Cross-border transactions, Due diligence, IPOs, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, Safe harbor, SEC, SEC enforcement, Securities enforcement, Securities litigation, Securities regulation, SPACs
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The Missing Element of Private Equity
How Private Equity Can Drive Boardroom Diversity Corporate boards are vital in helping companies maintain a longer-term focus while executing on shorter-term priorities. And a board’s unique stature, sitting atop the organization, allows it to shape corporate culture while guiding long-term strategy through a mix of encouragement, skepticism, and guidance. This role is consistent regardless […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, ESG, Practitioner Publications, Private Equity
Tagged Board composition, Boards of Directors, Diversity, ESG, Private equity
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Shareholder Meetings and Freedom Rides: The Story of Peck v. Greyhound
My new paper, Shareholder Meetings and Freedom Rides, is a story about the history of corporate and securities laws that begins in an unlikely place. In 1947, James Peck and Bayard Rustin, members of the radical pacifist group the Fellowship of Reconciliation and its offshoot the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), were preparing for a […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Corporate Elections & Voting, ESG, Securities Regulation
Tagged ESG, Human rights, Legal history, SEC, Securities regulation, Shareholder meetings, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder voting
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