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Do Investors Care About Impact?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita ; How Much Do Investors Care about Social Responsibility? Do investors care about impact? Yes, in the same way, they care about pandas. We provide this answer in our paper «Do Investors Care About Impact?”, People care a lot about pandas, no doubt. more…)

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What boards should know about balancing ESG critics and key stakeholders

Harvard Corporate Governance

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics are often discussed as if there is a collective understanding about what they mean. The use of ESG as an umbrella term for so many topics has led to misperceptions and, at times, controversy about whether focusing on certain risks and opportunities violates duties to investors.

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Data in the Driver’s Seat: What Boards Need to Know about Data Governance

Harvard Corporate Governance

The result is an expanding body of laws, regulation, guidance, and enforcement that create new obligations for companies about how they collect and use data, protect consumer rights, secure their systems, and develop and deploy data-driven technologies.

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Four Facts About ESG Beliefs and Investor Portfolios

Harvard Corporate Governance

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita; How Much Do Investors Care about Social Responsibility? A third question elicits investors’ level of concern about climate change. more…)

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About 1,500 Empirical Studies Apply the BCF Entrenchment Index

Harvard Corporate Governance

According to Google Scholar citations data, as of the beginning of 2023, the BCF Study was cited by about 3,500 research papers (listed here ). Furthermore, a review of these research papers has identified about 1,500 studies that have applied the E-Index and used it in their empirical analysis.

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Musings and Questions about the Universal Proxy Card

Harvard Corporate Governance

Many have written, spoken and warned about the consequences of Federal Proxy Rule §14a-19 that requires all parties in contested elections to use universal proxy cards (“UPCs”) that list all director nominees presented for election at a shareholder meeting. Bebchuk and Scott Hirst.

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How Much Do Investors Care About Social Responsibility?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Our recent paper , How Much Do Investors Care about Social Responsibility?, And more broadly, do market participants, such as investors and consumers, differ from donors in the ways in which they prioritize monetary gains and the promotion of social goals?