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Hedge Funds: The Missing Link In Executive Pay Reform, Robert Illig Aug 2009

Hedge Funds: The Missing Link In Executive Pay Reform, Robert Illig

Robert C Illig

No abstract provided.


Why Corporate Boards Would Be Better Off With Fewer Outside Ceos, Bernard S. Sharfman, Steven J. Toll Mar 2009

Why Corporate Boards Would Be Better Off With Fewer Outside Ceos, Bernard S. Sharfman, Steven J. Toll

Bernard S Sharfman

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi Feb 2009

A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi

Paolo Santella

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi Feb 2009

A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi

Carlo Drago

No abstract provided.


A Team Production Approach To Corporate Law And Board Composition, Bernard S. Sharfman, Steven J. Toll Feb 2009

A Team Production Approach To Corporate Law And Board Composition, Bernard S. Sharfman, Steven J. Toll

Bernard S Sharfman

In today’s world of corporate governance, the board of directors of a publicly held firm (“public company”) will almost certainly be made up of a majority of independent directors. Armed with such independence, it is hoped that corporate boards can better monitor for managerial opportunism and enhance firm performance relative to management dominated boards.

The criterion for selecting outside board members is to choose members who enhance the efficiency of board decision-making. For that to occur, we must have an understanding of how the corporate board of a public corporation is to operate in an efficient manner. As proposed by …


A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi Feb 2009

A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi

Paolo Santella

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi Feb 2009

A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom (Powerpoint Format), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi

Carlo Drago

No abstract provided.


A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom, Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi Jan 2009

A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom, Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi

Paolo Santella

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on director interlocks by illustrating and analysing the interlocking directorships among the Italian, French, German, UK and US listed Blue Chips. The comparison of the five countries considered shows that two national models stand out. On the one hand a model made of a high number of companies linked to each other through a small number of shared directors who serve on several company boards at the time (France, Germany, and Italy). On the other hand, in the UK much fewer companies are connected to each other essentially through …


A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom, Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi Jan 2009

A Comparison Among The Director Networks In The Main Listed Companies In France, Germany, Italy, And The United Kingdom, Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, Andrea Polo, Enrico Gagliardi

Carlo Drago

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on director interlocks by illustrating and analysing the interlocking directorships among the Italian, French, German, UK and US listed Blue Chips. The comparison of the five countries considered shows that two national models stand out. On the one hand a model made of a high number of companies linked to each other through a small number of shared directors who serve on several company boards at the time (France, Germany, and Italy). On the other hand, in the UK much fewer companies are connected to each other essentially through …


Taking The Blue Pill: The Imponderable Impact Of Executive Compensation Reform, Omari S. Simmons Jan 2009

Taking The Blue Pill: The Imponderable Impact Of Executive Compensation Reform, Omari S. Simmons

Omari Scott Simmons

No abstract provided.


Fiscalizacion Y Transparencia En Las Empresas Del Estado, Diego G. Pardow, Rodrigo Vallejo Jan 2009

Fiscalizacion Y Transparencia En Las Empresas Del Estado, Diego G. Pardow, Rodrigo Vallejo

Diego G. Pardow

This note is a comment on Chilean precedents about the political mechanisms to control state-owned enterprises.


Wall Street's Corporate Governance Crisis, Bernard S. Sharfman, Steven J. Toll, Alan Szydlowski Jan 2009

Wall Street's Corporate Governance Crisis, Bernard S. Sharfman, Steven J. Toll, Alan Szydlowski

Bernard S Sharfman

The board of directors of a public company is only responsible for a relatively few of the almost infinite number of decisions that are made at a public company over any period of time. Yet, when a corporate board does make a decision, for example, the appointment of a chief executive officer or the approval and recommendation to shareholders of a merger agreement, the decision can have a major impact on the firm. Now, based on the fallout from the financial crisis of 2008, we can add corporate board approval of company-wide compensation policies to the list of board decisions …


Imagining Business Associations Without Agency Law, Paula J. Dalley Dec 2008

Imagining Business Associations Without Agency Law, Paula J. Dalley

Paula J. Dalley

No abstract provided.