Professor Jesse Fried

Professor of Law

Office:	Griswold 506
Assistant:	Carole Mason 617/384-9814
Phone:	(617)384-8158
Email:	jfried@law.harvard.edu

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," 95 Journal of Financial Economics 384 (2010).
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 Promise of Executive Compensation (Harvard University Press 2004).

Bibliography

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