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The Tenth Annual Albert A. Destefano Lecture On Corporate, Securities & Financial Law. Corporate Accountability: Governance And Compensation Issues, Stanley Sporkin, Todd Lang, Gary Naftalis, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Louise Story
The Tenth Annual Albert A. Destefano Lecture On Corporate, Securities & Financial Law. Corporate Accountability: Governance And Compensation Issues, Stanley Sporkin, Todd Lang, Gary Naftalis, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Louise Story
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY: GOVERNANCE AND COMPENSATION ISSUES
Deconstructing Corporate Governance: Director Primacy Without Principle?, René Reich-Graefe
Deconstructing Corporate Governance: Director Primacy Without Principle?, René Reich-Graefe
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
For almost eighty years now, corporate law scholarship has centered around two elementary analytical findings made in what has once been described as the “last major work of original scholarship”within the field.
Corporate Governance In An Age Of Separation Of Ownership From Ownership, Usha Rodrigues
Corporate Governance In An Age Of Separation Of Ownership From Ownership, Usha Rodrigues
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The shareholder empowerment provisions enacted as part of the recent bailout legislation are internally incoherent because they fail to address the short-termist realities of shareholder ownership today. Ownership has separated from ownership in modern corporate America: individual investors now largely hold stock through mutual funds, pension funds, and hedge funds. The incentives of these short-term financial intermediaries only imperfectly reflect the interests of their long-term holders - an imbalance only exacerbated by the bailout’s corporate governance legislation. The bailout’s focus on shareholder empowerment tactics - such as proxy access, say-on-pay, and increased disclosure - makes little sense if shareholders are …