Funding from IRRC Institute - Tuesday, February 21, 2012 The Institute has announced the recipients of a new annual IRRC Institute Research Award. This competition examines the interaction of the real economy with investment theory. A blue-ribbon panel of judges...

IRRC Institute - Sunday, February 12, 2012 A new analysis indicates that environmental and social (E+S) shareholder proposals are gaining increased voting support from investors at U.S. public companies. From 2005-2011, average support for these proposals more than...

Funding from IRRC Institute, The Fair Labor Association, The Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project at Harvard Law School - Sunday, January 1, 2012 Harvard Law School's Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project, part of the Labor and Worklife Program, has completed...

Anurag Sharma, Ben Branch, Chetan Chawla, Liping Qiu, Ning Pu - Sunday, January 1, 2012 Institutional investors often must decide whether to favor or oppose a proposed acquisition or whether to accept or reject a tender offer. In isolation such decisions are usually...

IRRC Institute, Si2 - Friday, November 11, 2011A new study finds that corporate accountability and disclosure of political expenditures is on the upswing, with the boards of 31 percent of S&P 500 companies now explicitly overseeing such spending, compared to 23...

IRRC Institute, ISS, Marc Goldstein - Tuesday, February 22, 2011 At a time when engagement is front and center in the public debate about corporate America, this study provides the first-ever benchmarking of the level of engagement between investors and public...

IRRC Institute, Rock Center for Corporate Governance - Tuesday, October 19, 2010 The report provides an analysis of the decoupling phenomenon also known as empty voting that occurs when shareholder voting rights substantially exceed economic interest in the company....

IRRC Institute, Sustainable Investments Institute - Thursday, October 14, 2010 This study is the first comprehensive report to benchmark the governance of corporate political spending of the S&P 500, which has proven contentious for a wide range of companies. View...

IRRC Institute, PROXY Governance - Saturday, July 24, 2010 This report identifies a subset of S&P 500 companies with high pay that is not aligned with high performance. Based on new compensation disclosure requirements by the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

Harvard Law School, IRRC Institute - Tuesday, June 15, 2010 The IRRC Institute has funded three research reports conducted by the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance related to executive compensation. The three reports are as follows: The Wages of...

Harvard Law School, IRRC Institute - Tuesday, June 15, 2010 The IRRC Institute has funded three research reports conducted by the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance related to executive compensation. The first report is entitled, "The Wages of Failure:...