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Navigating an Evolving Challenge: Role of the Board and the CEO in the Navigating Political and Social Issues
January 10, 2023 | Company boards and senior leadership are having to pay much more attention to external developments – social and political, local, and global.
How Companies Navigate Political and Social Issues – Investor Perspective
An in-depth discussion of learnings from the 2022 proxy season and evolving investor and proxy advisor expectations regarding the transparency and congruency of companies’ political and social activities/issues.
Proposing Amendments To Your Charter
A discussion focusing on a recent enabling amendment to the Delaware General Corporation Law that applies to all public and private Delaware-incorporated companies regarding the extent to which covered corporate officers may or should be exculpated from personal liability, as well as cover other recent Delaware statutory amendments.
Crisis At The Company-The Role Of Independent Directors In Steering The Company To Safe Waters
Co-hosted by the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and Ballard Spahr LLP.
Both/And in Women’s Leadership: Advancing Gender Equity from the Classroom to the Boardroom
Work or family. Today or tomorrow. Service to self or others. Intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. These seemingly everyday challenges women business leaders face are often presented and perceived as “either/or” scenarios.
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How the Financial System Fails Investors and How to Fix It From a Structural and Governance Perspective
https://youtu.be/y_y_HBKoZhc On November 1, 2016, the John L. Weinberg Center hosted Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, and David Pitt-Watson, the three authors of What They Do With Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It. They were joined by John...
On The Impact and Future of HFT: White Paper
Ionut Florescu, Khaldoun Khashanah, Steve Yang - Monday, September 1, 2014 This white paper informs on the state of high frequency trading (HFT) mainly in the U.S. The paper addresses three major issues: First, it addresses HFT as it is seen from various market...
What Investors Need To Know About Cybersecurity: How to Evaluate Investment Risks
IRRC Institute, PwC's Investor Resource Institute - Tuesday, July 1, 2014 Companies are increasingly vulnerable to incoming cybersecurity threats from new directions and adversaries. Attacks in the form of "hacktivism," corporate espionage, insider and government...
Playing it Safe? Managerial Preferences, Risk, and Agency Conflicts
David Matsa, Todd A. Gormley - Thursday, June 12, 2014 This paper examines risk-averse managers' incentive to "play it safe" by taking value-destroying actions that reduce their firms' risk of distress. We find that, after managers are insulated by the passage of an...
Informed Options Trading prior to M&A Announcements: Insider Trading?
Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Menachem Brenner, Patrick Augustin - Thursday, June 12, 2014 We investigate informed trading activity in equity options prior to the announcement of corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A). For the target companies, we document pervasive...
Corporate Boards Exceeding Oversight Requirements On Environmental And Social Issues
IRRC Institute, Si2 - Tuesday, April 22, 2014 Board oversight has long been viewed as an effective mechanism to direct and monitor corporate management. For example, in the wake of accounting scandals last decade, the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002 requires all publicly...
Engagement Between Corporations And Investors At All Time High, Creating High Satisfaction Levels From All Sides
IRRC Institute, ISS - Thursday, April 10, 2014 A new study finds that the level of engagement between investors and publicly traded U.S. corporations is at an all time high. Both investors and corporate officials surveyed believe the increased level of engagement is...
Learning and the Disappearing Association between Governance and Returns
IRRC Institute - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 During the period 1991-1999, stock returns were correlated with the G-Index based on twenty-four governance provisions (Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003)) and the E-Index based on the six provisions that matter most (Bebchuk,...
The Public Fiduciary: Emerging Themes in Canadian Fiduciary Law for Pension Trustees
IRRC Institute - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Associety increasingly faces governance challenges at all levels, there is a growing recognition of the need to take a longer term and more systemic view of fiduciary obligations. We begin this article with a summary discussion...
First Comprehensive Study On State Of Integrated Reporting In United States
IRRC Institute and the Sustainable Investments Institute - Monday, April 29, 2013 Every company in the S&P 500 except one reports some form of sustainability disclosure, but fewer quantify those disclosures in terms of bottom line impacts, according to a new...
New Study Says Multiclass Voting Companies Underperform, Riskier
IRRC Institute, ISS - Tuesday, October 2, 2012A new study finds that controlled companies - particularly those with multiple classes of shares - generally underperform over the long term. As compared to companies with dispersed ownership, controlled companies...
New Executive Compensation Research: Peer Group Benchmarking Inherently Flawed And Inflationary
IRRC Institute, The John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance - Saturday, September 22, 2012 An over-reliance on peer group compensation benchmarking is central to the persistent issue of rising executive pay in the United States, new research finds. While...
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