Key Takeaways from Elon Musk vs. the SEC, Director and Boards website, June 2023
ESG Metrics in Compensation Plans and Executive Employment Agreements, Directors and Boards Newsletter and Magazine 2022/2023: Part 1 and Part 2
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
Trading in Textbooks for Newspapers Directors & Boards Newsletter
T-Mobile’s eccentric CEO isn’t the right person to lead WeWork CNN Perspectives
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
Snap’s Not Looking to Chat with Shareholders 📄 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
How Delaware May Be Dethroned and Why It Should Not 📄 Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
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, 10/29/12
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
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
Why Do Companies Going Public Choose Controversial Governance Structures, and Why Do Investors Let Them? The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog