Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 10, 2023

This post is based on their recent article , forthcoming in the Journal of Corporation Law, and is part of the Delaware law series ; links to other posts in the series are available here. In our forthcoming article, “Out with Fiduciary Out?” Horowitz & Co. and a Ph.D. candidate at Bar-Ilan University.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 13, 2024

This post is based on their recent article published in the Journal of Financial Economics. Introduction Publicly traded firms face pressure from equity market investors with short investment horizons. This forces companies to make decisions that favor immediate gains over long-term value creation.

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Finance Equity Marketability 277

Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This post is based on his recent article that was published in the Yale Journal on Regulation. Posted by Nathan Atkinson (University of Wisconsin), on Thursday, December 14, 2023 Editor's Note: Nathan Atkinson is Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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Compliance 278

Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 17, 2025

This article examines the four bills passed by the Legislature that resulted in the most significant amendments to the TBOC from a corporate governance perspective – SB 29, SB 1057, SB 2411 and, potentially, SB 2337.

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Compliance 133

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 19, 2023

This post is based on their article , forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. Six decades ago, Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow wrote a seminal article justifying various “nonmarket social institutions” that shielded health services from normal market conditions. Fuse Brown is the Catherine S.

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Equity Marketability 249

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 8, 2023

This post is based on their recent article , forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review. In our article, Superstar CEOs and Corporate Law (forthcoming in Washington University Law Review), we develop a framework to explore the challenges that superstar CEOs pose for corporate law doctrine and scholarship.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 27, 2022

This post is based on his recent article , published in the Ohio State Law Journal. Posted by Paolo Saguato (George Mason University), on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Editor's Note: Paolo Saguato is Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School.

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Marketability 249

Viking Mergers

APRIL 24, 2023

See this article if you need help with client concentration or need help recognizing the issue. If you think you have a problem in your business or aren’t sure how to address it, review this article to help resolve issues and prevent future problems from arising. The risk is just too high. We’re here to help.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JANUARY 29, 2024

This myopic, jurisdictionally bound, conception of corporate purpose forms the logical foundation for Milton Friedman’s (in)famous 1970s New York Times article “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”. more…)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 30, 2024

This post is based on his recent article , forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review. My article, Do AIs Dream of Electric Boards , 119 Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming 2025), explores the economic, legal, and policy questions of AI legal personhood. Rhee is John H. more…)

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Technology 223

Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 22, 2023

This post based on an article forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics. In the article titled, When and How Are Rule 10b5-1 Plans Used for Insider Stock Sales? Fich is Professor of Finance at Drexel University LeBow College of Business, Robert Parrino is Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin, and Anh L.

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Finance 265

Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This post is based on an article forthcoming in the Annual Review of Financial Economics. The review article, IPOs and SPACs: Recent Developments , forthcoming in the Annual Review of Financial Economics , examines recent developments in the IPO market.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 8, 2025

This article explores how and why companies, proxy advisory firms, and large institutional investors have in recent years tightened their approach to overboarding policies, which limit the number of publicly listed boards on which directors can serve. Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, Inc.,

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 8, 2024

This post is based on his article forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review. In a recent article , I develop an answer to that question that is different from saying that duties are owed merely to shareholders or to stakeholders. Gubler (Arizona State University), on Monday, April 8, 2024 Editor's Note: Zachary J.

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Equity 235

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA In 2021, Professor Larry Hamermesh and former Court of Chancery and Delaware Supreme Court judges Leo Strine and Jack Jacobs (together, the “ MatchMakers ”) wrote an article titled Optimizing the World’s Leading Corporate Law: A 20-Year Retrospective and Look Ahead (hereinafter “ Optimizing ”). [1]

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IVSC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This article series looks to contribute to realigning accounting and reporting standards with the value creation and preservation strategies utilised in modern business models.

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Intangible Assets Business Valuation 259

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 6, 2023

This post based on their article forthcoming in the Yale Journal on Regulation. In a new Article (forthcoming in Yale Journal on Regulation), we examine the understudied role of these outside compliance advisors and make the following three contributions. Compliance has become a critical corporate governance issue. more…)

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Compliance 223

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 30, 2023

My new draft article, available here , provides securities attorneys a guide for working with forensic accountants to develop defensible disgorgement calculations as they negotiate with the SEC and as they litigate on behalf of clients. This shifts billions in settlement negotiations.

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Finance 207

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 24, 2024

This post is based on their recent article published in The Accounting Review. Regulators worldwide are responding to increasing demand for gender diversity on corporate boards by experimenting with policy interventions intended to increase female representation among board directors.

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Firm Value Technology 221

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This post is based on an article forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting & Economics. Pierce (Georgia State University), on Monday, September 11, 2023 Editor's Note: Andrew T. Pierce is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Georgia State University.

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Marketability 212

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 7, 2025

We explore this question in our new article, “Why Financial Crises Recur.” In this century, we have witnessed runs on “money market funds” and “repos” (and demand deposits still). And, during the past half decade, we have seen repeated runs on circulating digital short-term debt known as “stablecoins.”

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Banking Finance Marketability 157

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 24, 2024

This post is based on his article forthcoming in the Wake Forest Law Review. Posted by Samuel Buell (Duke University School of Law), on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Editor's Note: Samuel Bell is Bernard M. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Law at the Duke University School of Law.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 1, 2024

This post is based on his recent article forthcoming in the U.C. Posted by Edward Lee (Santa Clara Law), on Saturday, June 1, 2024 Editor's Note: Edward Lee is a Professor of Law at the Santa Clara University School of Law, starting in August 2024. Davis Law Review.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 23, 2022

This post is based on their forthcoming article. In a forthcoming article, Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders? , Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance by Lucian A. Which hypothesis best explains the BRT Statement?

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Finance 261

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In a forthcoming article , I argue that important social implications of dual-class stock overflow the boundaries of the firm—in brief, that the structure generates the potential for significant benefits and costs for society. However, the focus of these agency costs critiques is on the dual-class structure’s effects inside the firm.

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Equity Technology Marketability 230

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 30, 2023

This post is based on their article forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies. In the Review of Financial Studies article titled “ Disloyal managers and shareholders’ wealth ,” we examine the impact of these waiver laws on corporate innovation and growth strategies at public traded firms.

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Finance 243

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A 2017 Iowa Law Review article, “Campaign Finance Reform Without Law,” spotlighted how companies increasingly were adopting political disclosure and accountability policies to better manage their spending. Companies today accept that political spending poses serious risks.

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Finance 214

Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 24, 2022

The authors have also written short editorials for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, amongst others; each of which were the most-read articles in their respective outlets for at least 36 hours upon publication. more…).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This post is based on an article forthcoming in Review of Finance by Professor Huang, Benedikt Franke, Reeyarn Zhiyang Li, and Hui Wang. In a forthcoming article at the Review of Finance, we exploit the variations in securities law precedents across the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Finance Technology 214

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 4, 2022

This post is based on a Ceres/Semler Brossy client memo and article in Corporate Board Member by Mr. Rothstein, Ms. Tay, Melissa Paschall at Ceres, and Kathryn Neel and Blair Jones at Semler Brossy LLC. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance by Lucian A.

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Equity 324

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 30, 2024

In this article, we formulate our key challenge and argument of what measurement and valuation of corporate impacts means for the research and practice of corporate governance. At the same time, impact valuation significantly matured in the last two decades from an economic policy analysis tool to a method of accounting for corporate impacts.

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Finance Compliance 278

Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 29, 2024

A New York Times article from December 2020 noted that 25% of global IPO proceeds in 2020 were raised by SPACs, easily an all-time high, with nearly 250 newly formed SPACs going public that year. [3] 3] It got even better in 2021.

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Marketability Corporate Finance Finance Equity 255

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 8, 2024

This post is based on their recent article forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal. Collins Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Elisabeth de Fontenay is Karl W. Leo Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke University. trillion in 2023.

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Marketability Corporate Finance Equity Finance 240

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This post is based on her article forthcoming in the Columbia Business Law Review. Posted by Amanda Rose (Vanderbilt Law School), on Thursday, November 2, 2023 Editor's Note: Amanda M. Rose is Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In a new article posted on SSRN and forthcoming in the Journal of Corporation Law , I address what I take to be a minor intellectual scandal. (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A. Bebchuk, Kobi Kastiel, and Roberto Tallarita.

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Corporate Finance Finance 211

Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 13, 2024

This post is based on an article forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance by John Graham , Professor Grennan, Campbell R. Harvey , and Shivaram Rajgopal.

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Intangible Assets Corporate Finance Finance Firm Value 211

Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The analysis is based on recently filed proxy statements and complemented by the review of organizational documents (including articles of incorporation, bylaws, corporate governance principles, board committee charters, and other corporate policies made available in the Investor Relations section of companies’ websites).

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Equity 325