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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 third report is entitled, "Regulating Bankers'...

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 second report is entitled, "Paying for Long-Term...

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...

IRRC Institute, Mercer - Tuesday, February 9, 2010 This report examines the investment horizon of active long-only equity managers across different geographies and styles between June 2006 and June 2009. The overall aim of the research was not to prove that...

Aaron Bernstein, Christopher Greenwald - Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Some 28% of global companies including nearly half of those with market capitalizations of more than $10 billion have labor and human rights (LHR) policies covering their global supply chains. This...

Afshin Mehrpouya, Chaoni Huang, Timothy Barnett - Monday, October 12, 2009 This report presents a study of the engagement and proxy voting practices of the ten largest Sovereign Wealth Funds, as well as general analysis of the level of transparency with which they...

IRRC Institute, PROXY Governance - Tuesday, June 30, 2009 This study analyzes the proxy voting policies and recent voting records of seven of the largest exchange-traded fund (ETF) sponsors to find a considerable variation in the voting patterns and philosophies of...