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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:...

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...

The Corporate Library - Wednesday, June 10, 2009 This study examines areas related to a private equity backed companies ownership, board characteristics, takeover defenses and compensation policies as compared to non-private equity backed buyout companies. View Full...

Trucost - Tuesday, June 2, 2009 This study indicates that the financial risk to companies in the Standard & Poor 500-stock index would vary greatly under a cap-and trade program requiring the purchase of carbon emission credits. View Full Report View Press...

Chris Cernich, Michael Anderson, Scott Fenn, Shirley Westcott - Monday, May 25, 2009 The Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and PROXY Governance Inc. have released the first-ever comprehensive analysis of the impact of insurgent shareowners winning some...