Publications
- Key Takeaways from Elon Musk vs. the SEC,
Director and Boards website, 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 and Boards Newsletter and Magazine 2022/2023
- 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 14, 2021
- Trading in Textbooks for Newspapers
Directors & Boards Newsletter, 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, Autumn 2019 - THE PURPOSE DEBATE Three Problems With the Stakeholder Theory
Directors & Boards 2019 Third Quarter - 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 📄, Fourth Quarter 2017
- Directors and 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 electronic magazine - E. Merrick Dodd and the Rise and Fall of Corporate Stakeholder Theory
72 Business Lawyer 735 ( Summer 2017) - 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 magazine, First Quarter 2017 - The Government’s giant shadow in the boardroom (PDF) 📄
Directors & Boards magazine, Second Quarter 2016 - FMA Roundtable on New Developments in European Corporate Governance
29 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 50 (Winer 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) - The Compliance Conundrum (PDF) 📄
Ethisphere, Fall 2015 - The pay ratio rule: Get ready, get going (PDF) 📄
Directors & Boards magazine, Third Quarter 2014 - Comment Letter – Farm Credit Administration (PDF) 📄
April 29, 2014 - William P. Lauder on governing the controlled corporation (PDF) 📄
Directors & Boards magazine, Annual Report 2014 - A New Kind of Captured Board
Directors & Boards magazine, First Quarter 2014 - Comment Letter – Securities and Exchange Commission (Pay Ratio Disclosure) (PDF) 📄 December 4, 2013
- Surplus, Agency Theory and the Hobbesian Corporation (PDF) 📄
Wake Forest Law Review, Fall 2013 - Executive Superstars, Peer Groups and Overcompensation
Journal of Corporation Law, Spring 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, 10/29/2012 - Dual Class Stock: Governance at the Edge (PDF) 📄
Directors & Boards magazine, Third Quarter 2012 - Compensation and the Myth of the Corporate Superstar
Harvard Business Review, February 1, 2012 - What is a CEO worth? Don’t look to peers (PDF) 📄 Directors & Boards, Q3 2011
- Report of the Round Table on Proxy Governance (PDF) 📄 August 2011
- Punting Peer Groups: Resolving the Compensation Conundrum (PDF) 📄
BNA Corporate Governance Report, May 2, 2011 - Report of the Study Group on Corporate Boards “Bridging Board Gaps” (PDF) 📄 2011
- The Great Divide (PDF) 📄
Directors & Boards magazine, First Quarter 2010 - Director term limits come up for review (PDF) 📄
Directors & Boards magazine, Second Quarter 2008 - Ed Woolard: A life in governance (PDF) 📄
Directors & Boards, Fall 2000
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