Columns
2021-2024
- Should CEOs Speak Out? A Board Framework, The Corporate Board, (July/August 2024)
- Gensler’s Stalled ESG Agenda May Spur Firms to Slow Compliance, Bloomberg Law, (September 11, 2024)
- Navigating the Nuances of Board Diversity in NASDAQ-Listed Companies, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, (August 21, 2024)
- Who Should Be on the CEO Search Committee?, Directors&Boards, (April 2, 2024)
- Key Takeaways from Elon Musk vs. the SEC, Directors&Boards, (June 2023)
- Why Do Companies Going Public Choose Controversial Governance Structures, and Why Do Investors Let Them?, The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, (June 21, 2022)
- ESG Metrics in Compensation Plans and Executive Employment Agreements, Directors&Boards Newsletter and Magazine (2022-23)
- Gender disclosure rules can make a difference, ECGI Blog
- The Impact of a Principles-Based Approach to Director Gender Diversity Policy, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance’s blog, (September 2021)
2016-2020
- Trading in Textbooks for Newspapers, Directors&Boards, (July 29, 2020)
- T-Mobile’s eccentric CEO isn’t the right person to lead WeWork, CNN Perspectives, (November 18, 2019)
- WeWork for Adam Neumann, Ethical Boardroom Magazine, (Fall 2019)
- THE PURPOSE DEBATE Three Problems With the Stakeholder Theory, Directors&Boards (Third Quarter 2019)
- SOX’s Financial-Expert Requirement 15 Years Later, Directors&Boards Magazine (Annual Report 2018)
- Unequal Voting and the Business Judgement Rule, Harvard law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, (April 17, 2018)
- Snap’s Not Looking to Chat with Shareholders, Directors&Boards Magazine, (Fourth Quarter 2017)
- “On Leadership: An Interview with Kenneth C. Frazier, President & CEO of Merck & Co. Inc., ACC (2017)
- Snap’s Not Looking to Chat with Shareholders, Directors&Boards
- ExxonMobil and the ‘Rexit’ retirement package, Ethical Boardroom, (Spring 2017)
- How Delaware May Be Dethroned and Why It Should Not, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, (March 31, 2017)
- Climate change and the corporate board: Too hot not to handle?, Directors&Boards, (First Quarter 2017)
- 29 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 50 (Winer 2017)
- The Government’s giant shadow in the boardroom (PDF), Directors&Boards, (Second Quarter 2016)
2011-2015
- The Compliance Conundrum (PDF), (Ethisphere, Fall 2015)
- The pay ratio rule: Get ready, get going (PDF), Directors&Boards, (Third Quarter 2014)
- Comment Letter – Farm Credit Administration (PDF), (April 2014)
- William P. Lauder on governing the controlled corporation (PDF) Directors&Boards, (Annual Report 2014)
- A New Kind of Captured Board, Directors&Boards, (First Quarter 2014)
- Comment Letter – Securities and Exchange Commission (Pay Ratio Disclosure) (PDF) (December, 2013)
- Peer Groups – Understanding CEO Compensation and a Proposal for a New Approach (PDF) Directors Notes, The Conference Board, (April 2013)
- When Searching for a CEO, there’s No Place Like Home, The Wall Street Journal, (October, 2012)
- Dual Class Stock: Governance at the Edge (PDF), Directors&Boards, (Third Quarter 2012)
- Compensation and the Myth of the Corporate Superstar, Harvard Business Review, (February, 2012)
- What is a CEO worth? Don’t look to peers (PDF) Directors & Boards, (2011)
- Punting Peer Groups: Resolving the Compensation Conundrum (PDF), BNA Corporate Governance Report, (May, 2011)
2000-2010
- The Great Divide (PDF), Directors&Boards, (First Quarter 2010)
- Director term limits come up for review (PDF), Directors&Boards, (Second Quarter 2008)
- Sidney J. Weinberg: The Functions of a Corporate Director: An Address before the Harvard Business School Club of Cleveland, May 31, 1949 (PDG), Directors & Boards (Summer 2003)
- Ed Woolard: A life in governance (PDF), Directors&Boards (Fall 2000)
Scholarship
SSRN Pages of Weinberg Center Directors
Selected Scholarship
- Who Are Quality Shareholders and Why You Should Care, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (2023)
- The SEC’s Misguided Climate Disclosure Rule Proposal, Banking & Financial Services Policy Report (2022)
- Bucking the Trend: Why do IPOs Choose Controversial Governance Structures and Why Do Investors Let Them, Journal of Financial Economics (2022)
- At the Table, But Can’t Break Through the Glass Ceiling: Board Leadership Positions Elude Diverse Directors, Journal of Financial Economics (2020)
- The Effect of Director Experience on Acquisition Performance, Journal of Financial Economics (2017)
- E. Merrick Dodd and the Rise and Fall of Corporate Stakeholder Theory, 72 Business Lawyer 735 (2017)
- FMA Roundtable on New Developments in European Corporate Governance, (2017)
- The Bug at Volkswagen: Lessons in Co-Determination, Ownership and Board Structure, Co-authored with Craig K. Ferrere and Nicholas Goossen— 27 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 36 (2015)
- Surplus, Agency Theory and the Hobbesian Corporation (PDF), Wake Forest Law Review, (2013)
- Executive Superstars, Peer Groups and Overcompensation, Journal of Corporation Law, (2013)
- Report of the Round Table on Proxy Governance (PDF), (2011)
- Report of the Study Group on Corporate Boards “Bridging Board Gaps” (PDF), (2011)
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