Corporate Governance
Event Notes: Shareholder Democracy
The Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State hosted with the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation, in partnership with the Financial Times, a virtual event discussing shareholder democracy with Lisa Fairfax, Alex Thaler and Luigi Zingales. The following is a transcript of the event.
ESG Standards’ Good, Bad and Ugly
The Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State hosted a virtual event discussing the standards, metrics and disclosures of investments focused on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals. The following is a transcript of the event.
Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving
A new paper examines the relationship between the rising concentration in institutional investors' ownership of publicly traded U.S. firms and portfolio companies' political giving....
How To Ensure Industrial Policy Promotes Public Over Private Gain
Industrial policy was once so out of fashion that it was jokingly called “the policy that shall not be named.” Now it’s back in...
The Year’s Top 5 Capitalisn’t Podcast Episodes
This year's top five most-downloaded episodes of Capitalisn't ranged from discussions of private equity and inflation to Capitalism itself. Download these episodes ahead of...
Shareholder Democracy Doesn’t Work. Here’s How It Can.
An opinion piece by Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales describes how a new voting mechanism could help individual investors persuade companies to act in...
Corporations Are Not “We the People”
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
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Event Notes: Whose Business is Health?
On Oct.14, the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative hosted a panel discussing if and how companies should consider the health implications of their products....
Is Big Business Ungovernable?
Regulators should dedicate more resources to pursuing big cases against the biggest market actors, even if it means compiling far fewer enforcement actions annually....
Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value to all...
