Jesse M. Fried

Professor of Law

Biographical Statement

Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, he was a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) at the University of California Berkeley. He holds an A.B. and A.M in Economics from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Fried has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School and Tel Aviv University. Fried's main areas of research are executive compensation, corporate governance, corporate bankruptcy and venture capital.

Appointments

• John. M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business, 1995-1997
• Professor of Law, 2009

Education

• Harvard College A.B. 1986
• Harvard University A.M. 1989
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1992

Research Interests

• Corporate bankruptcy
• Corporate governance
• Executive compensation
• Insider trading
• Securities regulation
• Venture capital contracting

Representative Publications

• Fried, Jesse M. & Brian Broughman. "Renegotiation of Cash Flow Rights in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms," Journal of Financial Economics, (forthcoming).
  
• Fried, Jesse M. "Firms Gone Dark," 76 University of Chicago Law Review 135 (2009).
  
• Fried, Jesse M. "Option Backdating and Its Implications," 65 Washington & Lee Law Review 853 (2008).
  
• Bebchuk, Lucian A. & Jesse M. Fried. Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promose of Executive Compensation (Harvard University Press 2004).
  

Bibliography

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