Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 8, 2023

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. He has also repeatedly pushed the boundaries of corporate law, being the direct target of multiple derivative lawsuits.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 23, 2024

Today, Columbia is honoring Jack Coffee, a leader of securities law scholarship and policy. As is customary, I’d like to note that my views are my own as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and I am not speaking on behalf of my fellow Commissioners or the staff. Caveat inviter, though, at the SEC, we are Merritt neutral.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 17, 2023

Some companies have focused on building the diversity pipeline by offering certain programming, such as fellowships or mentorships, to minority groups, often accompanied by scholarships or monetary grants [2]. Other companies have set multi-year, aspirational goals to increase their workforce diversity generally, or in specific roles [3].

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Mckinsey and Company

JULY 18, 2022

Institutions have the potential to use their roles in teaching and learning, research scholarship and creative expression, and service to the community to collectively work toward greater equity.

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IVSC

JANUARY 14, 2024

With 68 member countries, it operates similarly to the World Bank, promoting transparency through annual reports and advancing education via the ADB-Japan Scholarship Program. As a significant United Nations Observer, its largest shareholders include Japan, the United States, China, India, and Australia.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We first examine the specific business models of the law firms that participate in these cases as plaintiffs’ lawyers, finding the business of securities class action lawyering is far more complex than prior scholarship has recognized.

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Appraisers Blog

JANUARY 12, 2024

Their web site says they are developing a scholarship program, as is the appraisal foundation. They anticipate most participants will finish the program within 18 months, including 12 months for the practice assignments and immersive activities, and six months for the three final assignments.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Such programs included setting hiring and promotion goals for racial minorities, contracting with minority-owned suppliers and service providers, and providing scholarships or grants to institutions providing services to minority communities.

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ISA

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

2/23/2024 12:00:00 AM This year's categories: ISA Leadership Achievement Award - Advancing ISA Honoring an individual under whose professional direction has made a significant positive impact on ISA, by advancing the organization’s programming, membership, by forging new alliances that have had measurable and positive impact on our organization. (..)

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Business Wire M&A

MAY 10, 2023

The Institute’s next gen program combines scholarships, fellowships, internships, virtual mentorship, leadership training and lecture series into an integrated platform to accelerate the development of tomorro

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ThomsonReuters

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One effective strategy would be to establish a “scholarship program” — a set amount of money for you to pull from to “cover” costs of services you are not passing along to clients. People understand the concept of a scholarship, so this framework is easy to communicate.

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Appraiser Newsroom

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Funds are used to… conduct research promote standards offer scholarships to students provide grants to institutions foster authorship publish materials maintain a library …all for the advancement of the real property appraisal profession. Looking for educational support or to donate?

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 5, 2024

It is also used to report tax withheld on certain income, such as wages, scholarships, fellowships, and other types of income paid to foreign individuals or entities. Income Codes: Each type of income is assigned a specific income code, such as wages (Code 18), scholarships (Code 16), or royalties (Code 15).

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In our article, we contribute to the scholarship on digital financial innovation and seek to assist policymakers operating in a fragmented legal regime. To date, this scholarship has not paid sufficient attention to the interaction among U.S.-specific We also aim to fill a gap in the literature on digital assets.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The debate over the corporation’s purpose is today a central topic of corporate law scholarship. So far, the discussion has advanced little beyond a two-sided view, considering only the approaches known as shareholder primacy and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The ENEM result is part of the criteria for the selection process in the University for All Program ( Programa Universidade para Todos , or PROUNI), Student Financing Program ( Fundo de Financiamento Estudantil , or FIES), and scholarships in private educational institutions.

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ABI

JANUARY 13, 2022

14] Using the canon of noscitur a sociis, the court looked to the companion words “scholarship” and “stipend” to help determine how we should read “educational benefit.” [15] Nor does Navient argue the loan constitutes a ‘scholarship’ or ‘stipend.’” Here, the words “scholarship” and “stipend” are companions to “educational benefit.”

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Scholarship seeking to empirically test the various theories described above and the claims made by the SEC in the final rule would be valuable. In recent scholarship , I have encouraged the SEC to build on a more robust policy dialogue by generating more objective data about private equity fund bargaining.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 24, 2024

The article draws on technology scholarship and financial regulatory scholarship to show how venture capitalists and technologists engage in strategies of cognitive capture, regulatory arbitrage, and regulatory entrepreneurship to ensure that they are able to profit from their fintech innovations – even when those innovations harm the public.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 24, 2024

Today, Columbia is honoring Jack Coffee, a leader of securities law scholarship and policy. Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive, “Market Failure and the Economic Case for a Mandatory Disclosure Regime” (1984), available at [link]. [2] I hope Columbia one day might invite me back to celebrate your career, Professor Fox. See John C.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 9, 2024

This observation builds on scholarship in other fields – namely tax law – that demonstrate that inefficient legal rules can be rendered efficient when the enactment of the better rule is not possible or very costly.

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Viking Mergers

JUNE 16, 2022

This desire drew him forward as he earned an ROTC scholarship and graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in Finance. This robust childhood filled with new places, people, and experiences helped shape Kyle, fueling an entrepreneurial spirit and vastly influencing his approach, priorities, and motivation in business.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 13, 2023

The significance of such organizations in Australia echoes the findings of recent scholarship that has highlighted the importance of representative organizations and investor networks in other jurisdictions.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 12, 2023

The final section of our chapter discusses the implications of these observations for future scholarship. As such, the active/passive dichotomy that is used both by scholars and portfolio managers to market their mutual funds obscures important features of this market.

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Appraisal Rights

MARCH 13, 2019

Recent scholarship has linked appraisal and other shareholder protections to higher merger premia for shareholders. Appraisal is, like much of corporate law and finance in general, becoming more multi-jurisdictional (within the US) and more global in general.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The paper’s intended audience includes not just academics, but also courts, practitioners, and market participants who may be guided by its analysis, especially in light of the dearth of scholarship concerning the applicability of fraud on the market to fraud claims involving the secondary trading of crypto assets.

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 3, 2022

This opens the door for schools to attract athletes with the promise of additional benefits in the form of additional scholarships, computers and other equipment, and more [ NCAA v. Alston, U.S. 20-512, 06/21/2021 ]. . Following the Supreme Court ruling, General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo of the NLRB issued?

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 5, 2024

Withholdable payments can include, but are not limited to, scholarships and grants, compensation, dividends, interest, and royalties. As explained by the IRS , every domestic or foreign withholding agent (i.e., partnership, corporation, individual, association, etc.) Form 1042 is only filed with the IRS; it is not sent to payees.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 6, 2023

Prior scholarship has noted that agency costs in for-profit firms can undermine the goals of corporate philanthropy. The paper also contributes to the literature on agency costs and political considerations in corporate charitable giving by using the unique setting of the Indian legislation.

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Compliance Finance 90

Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2022

In my article, I correct this deep flaw in existing scholarship on the economics of insider trading. The most important and problematic cost of allowing insider trading is either ignored entirely or shunted to the side. I show that the defining economic feature of insider trading is the mismatch between private gains and social gains.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Much of the scholarship in this area treats compliance as a structural puzzle that can be solved by drawing on considerations of psychology, economics, and organizational theory. 1] For all its faults, compliance has become an essential corporate governance function , supported by a massive industry.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 7, 2022

My article is among the scholarship that has reflected on the likely (and beneficial) influence of creditors on corporate governance. My conclusion is that lending arrangements with banks are a complementary tool to avert value diversion in debtor companies.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 5, 2023

Despite their important role in the legal process, these networks of lawyers are almost uniformly overlooked in legal scholarship—a black box in a discipline otherwise obsessed with institutional detail.

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Farrel Fritz

JUNE 20, 2022

In this relatively short post I cannot possibly do justice to their scholarship and for that I apologize to Dean Weidner and Professor Kleinberger. Let me be the first to admit that my above summaries barely scratch the surface of the learned professors’ carefully sculpted arguments and the supporting materials cited for each.

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Farrel Fritz

MAY 16, 2022

McCormick in SDF Funding LLC v Fry in which, after remarking that Section 327’s contemporaneous ownership requirement “is not universally beloved” and referring to VC Laster’s scholarship on the issue, she considered and ultimately rejected the argument of a putative derivative plaintiff who ran afoul of the rule, that he should be afforded “equitable (..)

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 4, 2023

6] As the Kentucky AG notes when citing this piece of scholarship, “ESG investing is an ‘umbrella term that refers to an investment strategy that emphasizes a firm’s governance structure or the environmental or social impacts of the firm’s products or practices.’” [7] What goes unsaid is a complete depiction of the umbrella.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 17, 2023

Mr. Abdelaziz and Mr. Wilson agreed to make payments to university accounts in exchange for university employees’ securing admission for their children on athletic scholarships. Abdelaziz involved two defendants caught up in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal.

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