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Lessons From Quality Shareholders On Corporate Governance Practice, Research And Scholarship, Lawrence A. Cunningham Jan 2021

Lessons From Quality Shareholders On Corporate Governance Practice, Research And Scholarship, Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Special Note: This Publication is part of The Quality Shareholder Initiative at the Center for Law, Economics and Finance (C-LEAF), at The George Washington University Law School, Prof. Lawrence A. Cunningham, Faculty Director. This Article presents original data and analysis addressing an understudied force in corporate America: the most patient and focused shareholders. Great attention has been devoted to short-term trading on the one hand and diversified index funds on the other, but scant attention has been focused on long-term concentrated investors. The George Washington University has been redressing this problem through a research initiative focused on such buy-and-hold stock …


Initiative On Quality Shareholders Highlights, Lawrence A. Cunningham Jan 2020

Initiative On Quality Shareholders Highlights, Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Highlights of a research initiative that formalizes the longstanding intuition that the sorts of shareholders a company attracts influences its performance. Contains lists of the best shareholders in corporate America, measured by long holding periods and high portfolio concentration, and lists of the companies that attract such shareholders in high density. Notes and explains how such shareholders and companies have been prone to outperform rivals. Explores what quality shareholders look for in companies and a dozen of the practices and policies that, evidence shows, companies can use to attract quality shareholders. Includes bibliographic references and suggestions for further research.


Cultivating Quality: Ten Tools Managers Can Use To Get Long-Term Committed Shareholders, Lawrence A. Cunningham Jan 2020

Cultivating Quality: Ten Tools Managers Can Use To Get Long-Term Committed Shareholders, Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Special Note: This Article is part of The Quality Shareholder Initiative at the Center for Law, Economics and Finance (C-LEAF), at The George Washington University Law School, Prof. Lawrence A. Cunningham, Faculty Director. Considerable effort goes into forging tools a corporation can use to shape its shareholder base. Much effort is geared toward promoting long investor time horizons, presumed to be a valuable but rare appetite among many shareholders. Less attention has been focused on promoting greater commitment, though attracting shareholders willing to stake large percentages of their portfolio in a given company’s stock may prove way more valuable than …