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Video: Authors discuss book Corporate Governance Matters

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Corporate Governance Matters: A Closer look at Organizational Choices and Their Consequences

 Video Details

About the May 26, 2011 Event:

In recent years there has been significant news coverage of corporate fraud, accounting scandals, insider trading, excessive compensation, and other types of organizational lawsuits, resignations, and bankruptcy. Many of these reports suggest that companies’ failures are a result of a “breakdown in corporate governance.”

What is corporate governance? And how can it be used to make decisions in an organization’s best interest? Using the most current research and case studies, leading experts David Larcker and Brian Tayan answered some of these questions from their new book at this event on 5/26/11 at Stanford Law School. They discussed some of the critical aspects needed to implement and sustain superior corporate governance—including compensation, CEO labor markets, board structure, succession, risk, international governance, reporting, audit, institutional and activist investors, and governance ratings.

Check out an excerpt of the book online at: http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=013218026X.

 For more information on the book visit: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cgrp/

 

 

 

Rock Center Video: Proxy Access Forum, May 6, 2010

Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Speaker Video Time
Anne Sheehan We are very supportive of proxy access (5:20)
Abe Friedman Right to access is critical for shareholders (3:51)
Joe Grundfest In the proxy access debate, I’m a strong agnostic (4:39)
Frank Currie On proxy access (4:00)

The Rock Center for Corporate Governance hosted a panel discussion with SEC Commissioner Troy A. Paredes and relevant constituencies on May 6, 2010 to discuss the SEC’s proxy access proposal and how the new landscape will play out at different levels including at the SEC, in federal vs. state law, and among activist shareholders, institutional shareholders and corporations.

The Panel included:

• Professor Joseph A. Grundfest, Senior Faculty, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University;
•  The Hon. Troy A. Paredes, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
•  Francis S. Currie, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP;
•  Abe M. Friedman, Global Head of Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment, BlackRock, Inc.; and
• Anne Sheehan, Director of Corporate Governance, California State Teachers’ Retirement System