Moving toward Board Declassification in Fourteen S&P 500 Companies
Editor’s Note: This post relates to two press releases issued by the American Corporate Governance Institute (the “ACGI”), an organization that Lucian Bebchuk and Scott Hirst are affiliated with. One...
View ArticleMoving Twenty-Two S&P 500 Companies towards Board Declassification
Editor's Note: Lucian Bebchuk and Scott Hirst are Professor of Law, Economics and Finance and Lecturer on Law, respectively, at Harvard Law School. Their earlier post about the work of the ACGI is...
View ArticleMoving S&P 500 Companies Toward Board Declassification: Post-Proxy Season...
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk and Scott Hirst are Professor of Law, Economics and Finance and Lecturer on Law, respectively, at Harvard Law School. Their earlier post about the work of the ACGI is...
View ArticleAnalyzing Global Proxy Voting Practices
Editor's Note: Michael McCauley is Senior Officer, Investment Programs & Governance, of the Florida State Board of Administration (the “SBA”). This post is based on an excerpt from the SBA’s 2012...
View ArticleContributing to the Declassification of 21 S&P 500 Companies: Final Tally of...
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is Professor of Law, Economics and Finance at Harvard Law School, and Scott Hirst is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School; both were affiliated with the American...
View ArticleAdvancing Board Declassification in the 2013 Proxy Season
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), a clinical program at Harvard Law School, and Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director. Any views expressed and...
View ArticleLarge-Scale Governance Reforms in S&P 500 Companies
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is the SRP’s Counsel. The SRP, a clinical program...
View ArticlePerformance Metrics and Their Link to Value
Editor's Note: Michael McCauley is Senior Officer, Investment Programs & Governance, of the Florida State Board of Administration (the “SBA”). This post is based on a Farient Advisors study, titled...
View ArticleSubstantial 2013 Results Already Produced by SRP and SRP-Represented Investors
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is the SRP’s Counsel. The SRP, a clinical program...
View Article36 Declassification Proposals Going to a Vote in April and May
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is Counsel at the SRP. The SRP, a clinical program...
View ArticleSRP Mid-Proxy-Season Results: 19 Boards Declassified, 13 Precatory...
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is Counsel at the SRP. The SRP, a clinical program...
View ArticleThe New York Times on the Shareholder Rights Project
The New York Times published on Sunday an article on the work of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP). The article, entitled New Momentum for Change in Corporate Board Elections, was written by New...
View ArticleThe Shareholder Rights Project’s Mid-Year Update
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is the SRP’s Counsel. The SRP, a clinical program...
View ArticleTowards Board Declassification in One-Hundred S&P 500 and Fortune 500 Companies
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is the SRP’s Counsel. The SRP, a clinical program...
View ArticleTowards Board Declassification at 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 Companies:...
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is the SRP’s Counsel. The SRP, a clinical program...
View ArticleFlorida SBA 2013 Corporate Governance Annual Summary
Editor's Note: Editor’s Note: Michael McCauley is Senior Officer, Investment Programs & Governance, of the Florida State Board of Administration (the “SBA”). This post is based on an excerpt from...
View ArticleToward Board Declassification in 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 Companies: The...
Editor's Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is a counsel at the SRP. The SRP, a clinical program...
View Article75% of 2014 Engagements Have Already Produced Agreements to Declassify
Editor's Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the Director of the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), Scott Hirst is the SRP’s Associate Director, and June Rhee is a counsel at the SRP. The SRP, a clinical program...
View ArticleProxy Access, SEC Uncertainty and Related Issues in 2015
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Bill Libit, Chief Operating Partner concentrating in corporate and securities and municipal finance at Chapman and Cutler LLP, and is based on a...
View ArticlePublic Pension Funds’ Shareholder-Proposal Activism
Editor's Note: James R. Copland is the director of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy. The following post is based on a report from the Proxy Monitor project; the complete publication,...
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