1.
Board Diversity and Shareholder Voting
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 245, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 3915, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper 716/2020
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 18 Nov 2020
Last Revised: 15 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Melbourne, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Yale School of Management
Downloads
229
2.
Environmental Spinoffs: The Attempt to Dump Liability Through Spin and Bankruptcy
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-87
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 11 Nov 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University, Law School, Stanford University, School of Law, Student, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
157
3.
Sharing the Pain: How Did Boards Adjust CEO Pay in Response to COVID-19?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-86
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 01 Sep 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Equilar, Equilar, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management and Equilar
Downloads
350
4.
Blindsided by Social Risk: How Do Companies Survive a Storm of Their Own Making?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-85
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 21 Jul 2020
Last Revised: 23 Jul 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
169
5.
The Spread of Covid-19 Disclosure
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-84
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 29 Jun 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Downloads
560
6.
Machine Learning and Predicted Returns for Event Studies in Securities Litigation Preliminary and Incomplete
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 244
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 14 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Stanford University, Law School, Stanford University, School of Law, Student and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads
118
7.
The First Outside Director
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-83
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 04 May 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
137
8.
Diversity in the C-Suite: The Dismal State of Diversity Among Fortune 100 Senior Executives
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-82
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 28 Apr 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
578
9.
Review and Analysis of All Shareholder Letters from Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 243
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 24 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Downloads
222
10.
Netflix Approach to Governance: Genuine Transparency with the Board
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-71, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-24
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 21 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
1,178
11.
Regulation FD in the Age of Facebook and Twitter: Should the SEC Sue Netflix?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 131
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 21 Feb 2020
Last Revised: 21 Feb 2020
Working Paper Series
Stanford University Law School
Downloads
838
12.
Governance of Corporate Insider Equity Trades
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-81 (2020)
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 28 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Downloads
351
13.
Pay for Performance… But Not Too Much Pay: The American Public's View of CEO Pay
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-80, 2019
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 02 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
261
14.
Loosey-Goosey Governance: Four Misunderstood Terms in Corporate Governance
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-79, 2019
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 04 Oct 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
584
15.
The Limits of Delaware Corporate Law: Internal Affairs, Federal Forum Provisions, and Sciabacucchi
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 241
Number of pages: 97
Posted: 13 Sep 2019
Last Revised: 28 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
Stanford University Law School
Downloads
394
16.
Stakeholders and Shareholders: Are Executives Really 'Penny Wise and Pound Foolish' About ESG?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-78, July 2019, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 3418389
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 12 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, General Atlantic and High Sage Ventures
Downloads
302
17.
Have Changes in Financial Reporting Attributes Impaired Informativeness? Evidence from the Ability of Financial Ratios to Predict Bankruptcy
Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 13 (2008)
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 24 May 2019
Working Paper Series
Stanford University, Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads
31
18.
The Business Case for ESG
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-77
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 23 May 2019
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2019
Accepted Paper Series
ValueAct Capital, ValueAct Capital, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and ValueAct Capital
Downloads
1,032
19.
Mandatory Securities Arbitration’s Impermissibility Under State Corporate Law: An Analysis of the Johnson & Johnson Shareholder Proposal
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 237, Rutgers Law School Research Paper
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 24 Feb 2019
Working Paper Series
Rutgers Law School
Downloads
98
20.
Where Does Human Resources Sit at the Strategy Table?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-76, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 19-20
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 19 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
Accepted Paper Series
The Miles Group (TMG), Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, The Miles Group (TMG) and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
185
21.
Peer-Group Choice, Chief Executive Officer Compensation, and Firm Performance
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 240, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 19-15
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 13 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads
463
22.
Where's the Greenium?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 239, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 19-14, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Volume 69, Issues 2–3, April–May 2020, 101312
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 13 Feb 2019
Last Revised: 17 Nov 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Yale School of Management
Downloads
1,163
23.
Non-answers during Conference Calls
Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 19-01, Fama-Miller Working Paper , Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 04 Jan 2019
Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Melbourne, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
559
24.
Scaling Up: The Implementation of Corporate Governance in Pre-IPO Companies
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-75 , Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 19-11
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 30 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
533
25.
The Double-Edged Sword of CEO Activism
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-74, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 19-5
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 13 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, The Miles Group (TMG), Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Tideline
Downloads
677
26.
Long-Term Economic Consequences of Hedge Fund Activist Interventions
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 236, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-47, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 577/2018, Review of Accounting Studies,, Long-term economic consequences of hedge fund activist interventions June 2019, Volume 24, Issue 2, pp 536–569
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 03 Oct 2018
Last Revised: 07 Jun 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Downloads
1,136
27.
Bank Leverage, Welfare, and Regulation
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 235, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 3729, MPI Collective Goods Discussion Paper, No. 2018/13
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 02 Oct 2018
Last Revised: 10 May 2019
Working Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Downloads
453
28.
Mandating Gender Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: The Inevitable Failure of California’s SB 826.
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 232, Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 13 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 18 Jan 2019
Working Paper Series
Stanford University Law School
Downloads
951
29.
Cashing It In: Private-Company Exchanges and Employee Stock Sales Prior to IPO
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-73, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-45
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 12 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 24 May 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Yale School of Management
Downloads
513
30.
The Big Thumb on the Scale: An Overview of the Proxy Advisory Industry
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-72, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-27
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 04 Jun 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Manhattan Institute, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
789
31.
Why Governance Matters for Your Startup
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 232
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 18 Apr 2018
Working Paper Series
Stanford Law School
Downloads
719
32.
Governance Gone Wild: Epic Misbehavior at Uber Technologies
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-70, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 18-3
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 14 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
1,329
33.
Deal Momentum
65 UCLA L. Rev. 376 (2018), Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 230, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 237
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 20 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 27 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads
341
34.
Critical Update Needed: Cybersecurity Expertise in the Boardroom
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-69, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-70
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 20 Nov 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
437
35.
Building a Better Board Book
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 68, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-67
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 05 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Value Act Capital, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Value Act Capital
Downloads
612
36.
Ask Me No Questions and I Will Tell You No Lies: The Insignificance of Leidos before the United States Supreme Court
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 229
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 02 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
Stanford University Law School
Downloads
168
37.
CEO Talent: A Dime a Dozen, or Worth Its Weight in Gold?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-67, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-66
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 30 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 20 Oct 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
CEO Talent: A Dime a Dozen, or Worth Its Weight in Gold?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-67, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-66
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 30 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 20 Oct 2017
Downloads
241
CEO Talent: A Dime a Dozen, or Worth its Weight in Gold?
European Financial Management, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 301-308, 2018
Number of pages: 8
Posted: 14 Jun 2018
Downloads
241
38.
Deal Structure
Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 112, No. 2, 2018, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 231, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 229, BYU Law Research Paper No. 17-32
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 29 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia School of Law and Columbia Law School
Downloads
367
39.
Sunrise, Sunset: An Empirical and Theoretical Assessment of Dual-Class Stock Structures
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 228
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 14 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 22 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Florida, Levin College of Law
Downloads
1,105
40.
A Skeptical View of Financialized Corporate Governance
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 31 No. 3, 2017, pp 131-150, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 227, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-51
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 26 Jun 2017
Last Revised: 10 Aug 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads
451
41.
Retired or Fired: How Can Investors Tell If a CEO Was Pressured to Leave?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-66, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-40
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 30 May 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Melbourne, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
638
42.
An Activist View of CEO Compensation
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-65, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-31
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 25 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Value Act Capital, Value Act Capital, Value Act Capital, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
825
43.
From Boardroom to C-Suite: Why Would a Company Pick a Current Director as CEO?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. 64, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-27
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 25 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
280
44.
Board Evaluations and Boardroom Dynamics
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP63
, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-22
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 04 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 18 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
The Miles Group, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, The Miles Group (TMG) and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
512
45.
The Credibility of Financial Reporting: A Reputation-Based Approach
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 224, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-10
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 26 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 02 Feb 2017
Working Paper Series
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business - Finance Department
Downloads
438
46.
Book Review: Government Intervention into Board Composition: Gender Quotas in Norway and Diversity Disclosures in the United States
Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 192-239, 2016, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 223, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2881655
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Dec 2016
Last Revised: 29 Sep 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Law School
Downloads
181
47.
The Wells Fargo Cross-Selling Scandal
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-62 Version 2, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-1
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 05 Dec 2016
Last Revised: 14 Jan 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
6,988
48.
Succession 'Losers': What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-61, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-44
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 09 Oct 2016
Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, The Miles Group (TMG) and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
378
49.
Political Connections and the Informativeness of Insider Trades
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 222, Journal of Finance (Forthcoming), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 08 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 11 Aug 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, University of Navarra, IESE Business School and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
There are 2 versions of this paper
Political Connections and the Informativeness of Insider Trades
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 222, Journal of Finance (Forthcoming), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 08 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 11 Aug 2020
Downloads
1,903
Political Connections and the Informativeness of Insider Trades
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12153
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 25 Jul 2017
Downloads
1,903
50.
The 'Buy Side' View on CEO Pay
Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Closer Look Series: Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance No. CGRP-60
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 30 Aug 2016
Last Revised: 02 Dec 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Rivel Research Group and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
265
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