On March 10, 2022, presenter Alon Brav gave the lecture “Governance by Persuasion: Hedge fund activism and marker-based shareholder influence”. The lecture was based on a review paper coauthored with Wei Jiang and Rongchen Li in which the authors provide an updated empirical analysis as well as a comprehensive survey of the academic finance research… Read more »
On February 2, 2022 presenters Angie Raymond and Scott Shackelford, gave the seminar “Who Owns Your Data?” Scott and Angie explored core questions of data governance focusing on comparing the United States, European Union, and several Asian nations with regards to their privacy, cybersecurity, and AI governance practices. They hi-lighted areas of convergence, and divergence,… Read more »
On January 6, 2022 presenter, Michael Weisbach, and Discussant, Xiaoyun Yu, gave the seminar “Risk Perceptions, Board Networks, and Directors’ Reporting.” Independent directors of corporate boards have monitoring and advising duties. One incentive for independent directors to monitor is regulatory penalties. However, it is challenging to pin down a causal effect of regulatory penalties on directors’… Read more »
On December 2, 2021, Columbia University Professor Wei Jiang gave a lecture on “Corporate Governance: Data and Technology.” Professor Jiang’s talk delves into the opportunities and challenges that data and technology have created for corporate governance. Data and technology change the nature of information and write new chapters for corporate governance. For example, the availability… Read more »
On Nov. 3, London Business School Professor Alex Edmans gave the inaugural public lecture on corporate governance for the Institute for Corporate Governance (ICG) at Indiana University: “ESG: Do We Need It and Does It Work?” Indiana University Professor Phil Cochran wrote, “Edmans recognizes that in a positive-sum (or “pie-growing”) world the returns on many… Read more »