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2012-2013
| Apr. 23 | Guhan Subramanian (HLS) |
| Freeze-Out Transactions After CNX Gas: Theory & Evidence |
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| Apr. 22 | James Ben (Barclays) and Kevin Genirs (Barclays) |
| Barclays / Del Monte, Buyside Financing, Banker Conflicts, Go-shops |
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| Apr. 15 | Ulrike Malmendier |
| Winning by Losing: Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Mergers |
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| Apr. 9 | Dan Neff (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) and John Marzuli (Shearman & Sterling) |
| Dow / Rohn & Hass, Strategic Bidder Financing Considerations, Renegotiations and Remedies |
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| Mar. 26 | Steven Kaplan (Booth School of Business, Chicago) |
| Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the US: Perceptions, Facts, and Challenges |
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| Mar. 25 | Stuart Grant (Grant & Eisenhofer), Lew Liman (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP) |
| Representative Litigation (Class Actions, Derivative Actions), Litigation Risk, Forum Choice, Role of Court in Approving Settlements |
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| Mar. 4 | Michael Kendall (Goodwin Procter) and Paul Lockwood (Skadden Arps) |
| Price Adjustments, ADR Clauses, Litigating ADR |
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| Feb. 25 | Philip Urofsky (Shearman & Sterling) and Paul Schnell (Skadden Arps) |
| Cross-border Deals, FCPA Risk, Successorship Liability |
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| Feb. 12 | Andrew Nussbaum (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) and Marty Lessner (Young Conaway) |
| Confidentiality Agreements, Standstills, "Don't Ask, Don't Waive" |
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| Feb. 12 | John Coates (HLS) |
| Allocating Risk Through Contract: Evidence from M&A and
Policy Implications |
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| Feb. 5 | Kevin Davis (NYU) |
| Foreign Affairs and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
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| Jan. 29 | Jeffrey Gordon (CLS) |
| Systemic Harms and the Limits of Shareholder Value |
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| Jan. 23 | Robert Jackson (CLS) |
| The Limits of Inside Debt |
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| Jan. 22 | Guhan Subramanian (HBS) |
| Improving Director Elections |
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| Jan. 22 | James Woolery (JP Morgan Chase) |
| Airgas and the M&A Landscape |
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| Jan. 18 | Benjamin Heineman (HLS) |
| Corporate Integrity, Trust, and Performance |
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| Jan. 17 | Luca Enriques (Consob) |
| Regulating Controlled Companies |
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| Jan. 17 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Boards and Shareholders |
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| Jan. 16 | Alon Brav (Duke) |
| The Empirics of Hedge Fund Activism |
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| Jan. 15 | Justin Fox (HBR) & Stephen Davis (HLS) |
| Short Termism |
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| Jan. 14 | Greg Taxin (Clinton Group) |
| Hedge Fund Activism |
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| Jan. 14 | Robert A.G. Moks (ISS and Lens) |
| Corporate Governance |
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| Jan. 10 | Robin Greenwood (HBS) |
| The Growth of Modern Finance |
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| Dec. 6 | Holly Gregory (Weil Gotshal) |
| Dec. 4 | John Coates (HLS) |
| Who Decides: Do We Now Have An Answer? |
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| Nov. 29 | Nick Even (Haynes & Boone) |
| Nov. 27 | David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Toby Myerson (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison), Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps) |
| Cross-Border Deals in the EU |
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| Nov. 26 | David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Toby Myerson (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison), Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps) |
| Nuts and Bolts of Comparative US/EU M&A Law |
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| Nov. 26 | Jordan M. Barry (USD Law), John William Hatfield (GSB), Scott Duke Kominers (University of Chicago) |
| Empty Voting and Social Welfare |
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| Nov. 19 | Kim Rucker (Avon) and Doug Karp (Tailwind Capital Partners) |
| How Do Buyers And Targets/Sellers Look At The World? |
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| Nov. 15 | Daniel Wolf (Kirkland & Ellis) |
| Car Wars: Hertz-Thrifty-Avis |
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| Nov. 13 | Paul Rowe (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Controllers II: Controllers On The Sell-Side |
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| Nov. 5 | Ryan Bubb (NYU) |
| Optimal Agency Bias and Regulatory Review |
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| Oct. 30 | Faiza Saeed (Cravath, Swaine & Moore) and Annaliese Kambour (Time Warner) |
| A Spin-off or Other Similar Transactional Case Study |
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| Oct. 30 | Jesse Fried (HLS) |
| The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-term Shareholders |
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| Oct. 25 | Bill Savitt (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Oct. 19 | John Coates (HLS) |
| Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect |
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| Oct. 18 | Brad Karp (Paul Weiss) |
| Oct. 16 | Rick Climan (Weil, Gotshal & Manges) and Susan Hassan (Skadden Arps) |
| The Merger Agreement As A Contract II |
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| Oct. 11 | Bill George (Harvard Business School, former chairman of Medtronic, Inc.) |
| Viewing the Board from Different Perspectives |
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| Oct. 5 | Bob Clarke (Time Warner) |
| The Directors Panel |
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| Oct. 4 | Gary Bornstein (Cravath) |
| Sep. 27 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| The Legal Aspect of Boards |
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| Sep. 27 | Robert Giuffra (Sullivan & Cromwell) |
| Navigating Corporate Crises |
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| Sep. 25 | Mark Roe (HLS) and Federico Cenzi Venezze (HLS) |
| A Capital Market, Corporate Law Approach to Creditor Duties |
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| Sep. 21 | Luca Enriques (HLS) |
| Takeover Law Reform in Europe |
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| Sep. 20 | Rachelle Silverberg (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Forum Selection Clauses |
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| Sep. 18 | Gil Sparks |
| The Core Delaware Cases |
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| Sep. 13 | Isaac Corre (Eton Park Capital Management) |
| Airgas and Corporate Governance: A Hedge-Fund Perspective) |
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| Sep. 10 | Yaniv Grinstein (Cornell) and Stefano Rossi (Imperial College) |
| Good Monitoring, Bad Monitoring |
2011-2012
| Apr. 16 | Gilles Chemla (Imperial College London) |
| Skin in the Game and Moral Hazard
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| Apr. 2 | Laurence Tai (Harvard) |
| Transparency and Media Scrutiny in the Regulatory Process |
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| Mar. 19 | Allen Ferrell (HLS) and Martijn Cremers (Yale) |
| Thirty years of Shareholder Rights and Stock Returns: It’s Beta, not Alpha |
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| Mar. 5 | Josh Fishman (University of Virginia) |
| Inconsistency, Indeterminacy, and Error in Adjudication |
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| Feb. 21 | Jennifer Arlen (NYU) |
| Corporate Governance Regulation Through Non-Prosecution |
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| Feb. 14 | Robert Sitkoff (HLS) |
| Trust Investment Law after the Financial Crisis: Doctrine, Theory, and Evidence |
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| Feb. 7 | Quinn Curtis (University of Virginia) |
| An Empirical Study of Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Litigation: Do the Merits Matter? |
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| Jan. 30 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) |
| How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points? |
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| Jan. 24 | John Coates (HLS) |
| Managing Disputes Through Contract: Evidence from M&A |
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| Jan. 11 | Robert Jackson (Columbia) |
| Executive Pay |
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| Jan. 9 | Theodore Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Airgas and Beyond |
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| Jan. 6 | Morgan Ricks (HLS) |
| Financial Regulation |
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| Jan. 5 | John C. Coates (HLS) |
| Empirics of Corporate Political Contributions |
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| Nov. 29 | Marc Weingarten (Schulte Roth & Zabel) and Jim Morphy (Sullivan & Cromwell) |
| Evolutions In The Pill And Its Potential Effect On Investor Activism |
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| Nov. 28 | James Alt (Harvard) |
| Enforcement and Public Corruption: Evidence from US States |
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| Nov. 22 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) and Rachelle Silverberg (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Cross-Border Deals in the EU |
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| Nov. 22 | David Walker (Boston University School of Law) |
| A Tax Response to the Executive Pay Problem |
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| Nov. 21 | David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Toby Myerson (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison), Scott Simpson (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom) |
| Nuts and Bolts of Comparative US/EU M&A Law |
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| Nov. 21 | Gustavo Manso (MIT) |
| Libertarian Paternalism, Information Sharing, and Financial Decision-Making |
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| Nov. 15 | Ed Morrison (Columbia) |
| Mortgage Modification and Strategic Behavior: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide |
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| Nov. 15 | Eileen Nugent (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) , Rob Spatt (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett), Doug Karp (Tailwind Capital), and Paul Rowe (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz) |
| Controllers II: Controllers On The Sell-Side |
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| Nov. 8 | Jake Gersen (HLS) |
| Agency Design and Distributive Politics |
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| Nov. 7 | Faiza Saeed (Cravath, Swaine & Moore) and Annaliese Kambour (Time Warner) |
| A Spin-off or Other Similar Transactional Case Study |
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| Oct. 18 | Bill George (Harvard Business School, former chairman of Medtronic, Inc.) |
| The Board of Directors at Medtronic, Inc. |
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| Oct. 18 | Rick Climan (Dewey & LeBoeuf) and Susan Hassan (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP) |
| The Merger Agreement As A Contract II |
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| Oct. 17 | Martin Oehmke (Columbia) |
| Should Derivatives be Senior? |
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| Oct. 11 | Keith Hylton (Boston University) |
| The Economics of Third-Party Financed Litigation |
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| Oct. 4 | Hal Scott (HLS) |
| Contagion in the Financial Crisis and What to Do About It in the Future |
2010-2011
| Apr. 5 | Allen Ferrell (Harvard Law School) and Atanu Saha (CompassLexecon) |
| Calculation of Damages in ERISA and 10b-5 Litigation |
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| Mar. 29 | Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (New York University Law School) |
| Does Disclosure Matter? |
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| Mar. 29 | Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) |
| CEOs and Corporate Governance |
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| Mar. 8 | Albert Choi (Univ. Va. Law School) and George Triantis (Harvard Law School) |
| Bargaining Power and Nonprice Terms in Contracts |
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| Mar. 7 | Michael Weisbach (Ohio State University) |
| Pay for Performance from Future Fund Flows: The Case of Private Equity |
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| Mar. 1 | John Armour (Law School, Oxford), Bernard Black(Northwestern Univ. Law School), Brian Cheffins (Law School, Cambridge) |
| Delaware’s Balancing Act |
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| Feb. 15 | Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School), Alma Cohen (Harvard Law School), and Charles C.Y. Wang (Stanford University) |
| Staggered Boards and the Wealth of Shareholders: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
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| Feb. 1 | Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) |
| The Derivative Market’s Payment Priorities as Financial Crisis Accelerator |
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| Jan. 25 | Bo Becker (Harvard Business School), Daniel Bergstresser (Harvard Business School), and Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Business School & Harvard Law School) |
| Does Shareholder Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge |
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| Dec. 7 | Scott Goebel (Fidelity Management & Research Company) |
| Shareholder Involvement: Institutional Investor’s Perspective |
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| Dec. 6 | John Hatfield (Stanford Business School) |
| Takeover Defenses and Adverse Selection |
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| Dec. 1 | Eric Robinson (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Defending Against Activism: Eric Robinson’s Perspective |
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| Nov. 30 | Fabrizio Ferri (NYU) |
| Shareholder Voting |
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| Nov. 29 | Chico Mussnich (Barbosa, Müssnich & Aragão) and Paul Schnell (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates) |
| M&A Evolves: The Case of Brazil |
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| Nov. 23 | Ted Mirvis and Rachelle Silverberg (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Cross-Border Deals in the EU |
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| Nov. 23 | Howell Jackson (Harvard Law School) |
| Regulatory Reform in the Real World |
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| Nov. 22 | David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) and Toby Myerson (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP) |
| Nuts and Bolts of Comparative US/EU M&A Law |
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| Nov. 22 | Robert Jackson (Columbia Law School) |
| Reforming Executive Pay: Robert Jackson’s Perspective |
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| Nov. 16 | Rob Kindler (Morgan Stanley) and Faiza Saeed (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP) |
| The Many Roles Of The Investment Banker In M&A Transactions: Strategic Advisor? Fairness Opinion Giver? Debt Provider? |
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| Nov. 16 | James Kwak (The Baseline Scenario) |
| Thirteen Bankers |
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| Nov. 15 | Jeremy Stein (Harvard University) |
| Financial Regulation: Jeremy Stein’s Perspective |
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| Nov. 10 | Isaac Corré (Park Capital Management LP) and David Millstone (GAF and ISP Corporations) |
| Shareholder Activism in M&A Situations |
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| Nov. 9 | Lou Kling, Eileen Nugent and Thomas J. Allingham II (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates) |
| Special Transactional Committees? How And When Do They Work? |
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| Nov. 9 | Edward Rock (University of Pennsylvania Law School) |
| Government as Controlling Shareholder |
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| Nov. 8 | Peter Wallison (American Enterprise Institute) |
| Financial Regulation: Peter Wallison’s Perspective |
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| Nov. 3 | Roy Katzovicz (Pershing Square Capital Management LP) |
| Hedge Fund Activism: Roy Katzovicz’s Perspective |
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| Nov. 2 | Richard Breeden (Breeden Capital Management) |
| The Corporate Governance Landscape: Richard Breeden’s Perspective |
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| Nov. 1 | Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Law School) |
| Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? |
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| Oct. 26 | Paul Cappuccio and Jeff Bewkes (Time Warner, Inc.), and Tim Armstrong (AOL, Inc.) |
| Split-ups: AOL & Time Warner |
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| Oct. 25 | Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) |
| Overcoming Adverse Selection: How Public Intervention Can Restore Market Functioning |
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| Oct. 19 | Roberta Romano (Yale Law School) |
| Empowering Investors: A Market Approach to Securities Regulation |
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| Oct. 18 | Holger Spamann (Harvard University) |
| Collateral Damage? Derivatives Trading and Empty
Voting |
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| Oct. 12 | Rick Climan (Dewey & LeBoeuf) and Kim Rucker (Avon Products, Inc.) |
| The Merger Agreement As A Contract |
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| Oct. 12 | Jesse Fried (Harvard Law School) |
| Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of CEO Pay |
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| Oct. 5 | John Coates (Harvard Law School) |
| Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Activity |
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| Oct. 4 | Joseph Bachelder (Bachelder Law Offices) |
| Corporate Governance and Corporate Political Activity |
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| Oct. 4 | Jermey Stein (Harvard University) |
| Monetary Policy as Financial-Stability Regulation |
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| Sep. 29 | Lance Lindblom (Nathan Cummings Foundation), Bob Massie (Global Reporting Initiative, and Robert Monks (Institutional Shareholder Services) |
| Corporate Responsibility Activism Video |
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| Sep. 13 | Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) |
| Learning and the Disappearing Association between
Governance and Returns |
2009-2010
| Apr. 12 | Jesse Fried (HLS) |
| VC Inside Rounds as Rescue Financing: Theory and Evidence | |
| Apr. 6 | Henry Hansmann (Yale) |
| Legal Entities as Transferable Bundles of Contracts |
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| Mar. 8 | Victoria Ivashina (HBS) |
| Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008 |
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| Mar. 1 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) |
| Golden Parachutes and Corporate Acquisitions |
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| Feb. 23 | John Coates (HLS) |
| M&A Break Fees: US Litigation vs. UK Regulation |
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| Feb. 22 | John Coates (HLS) |
| The Powerful and Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A |
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| Feb. 16 | Katharina Pistor (Columbia) |
| Host’s Dilemma: Rethinking EU Banking Regulation in Light of the Global Crisis |
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| Feb. 9 | Louis Kaplow (HLS) |
| Why (Ever) Define Markets? |
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| Feb. 8 | Urs Peyer (INSEAD) |
| Luck and Entrepreneurial Success |
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| Feb. 1 | Vikrant Vig (London Business School) |
| Securitization and Distressed Loan Renegotiation: Evidence from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis |
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| Dec. 1 | Jody LaNasa (Serengeti Capital) |
| Video |
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| Dec. 1 | Jesse Fried (Harvard Law School) |
| Current Shareholder Bias |
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| Dec. 1 | Scott Simpson (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP), David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Jaap Winter (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) and John Coates (Harvard Law School) |
| How Different In Practice Is EU Takeover Law From The Delaware Regime? The EU Takeover Directive: What Is It? And Has It Worked As Intended? Video |
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| Nov. 24 | David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Vive la Différence: Anatomy Of A Cross-Border Deal Video |
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| Nov. 17 | Jeff Gordon (Columbia) |
| Avoiding Eight-Alarm Fires in the Political Economy of Systemic Risk Management |
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| Nov. 17 | Eileen Nugent (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP), Robert Schumer (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP) and John Finley (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP) |
| Division on the Buy-Side: The Structure Of Acquisitions By Private Equity Firms And The Role Of The Debt Financing
Providers Video |
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| Nov. 10 | Rick Climan (Dewey & LeBoeuf), Faiza Saeed (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP) and Kim Rucker (Avon Products, Inc.) |
| The Merger Agreement As A Contract Video |
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| Nov. 10 | Robert A.G. Monks |
| The Past, Present, and Future of Shareholder Activism: Bob Monks’ Perspective Video |
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| Nov. 9 | Kenneth R. Feinberg (Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation) |
| Reforming Executive Compensation |
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| Nov. 9 | Kenneth R. Feinberg (Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation) |
| The Government as Governance Reformer |
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| Nov. 2 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) |
| A New Capital Regulation for Large Financial Institutions |
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| Oct. 27 | Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Law School) |
| Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence From 1988-2008 |
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| Oct. 27 | Philip Gelston (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP), Stuart Grant (Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.), Paul Rowe (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz) and Audra Cohen (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP) |
| Why and When Are Fiduciary Outs In?: The Intricacies Of A Concept Run Amok Video |
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| Oct. 26 | John Coates (Harvard Law School) |
| M&A Break Fees: US Litigation vs. UK Regulation |
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| Oct. 26 | Michael Musuraca (Blue Wolf Capital), Dan Bakal (CERES) and David Schilling (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility) |
| Social Responsibility Activism |
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| Oct. 19 | Allen Ferrell (Harvard Law School) and Martijn Cremers (Yale) |
| Thirty Years of Corporate Governance: Firm Valuation and Stock Returns |
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| Oct. 6 | Robert Mendelsohn (Formerly of Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Group), Toby Myerson (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP), John C. Wilcox (GWM Group and Sodali Ltd), Byron Georgiou (Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP and Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission) |
| Proxy Access and Shareholder Rights Video |
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| Oct. 6 | Ted Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Daniel Summerfield (Universities Superannuation Scheme), Lance Lindblom (Nathan Cummings Foundation) |
| Proxy Access and the Reform of Corporate Elections Video |
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| Oct. 6 | Isaac Corré (Eton Capital Management), James Morphy (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP), Ted Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), and Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law School) |
| Was Time-Warner Correctly Decided? Was QVC Consistent With Time-Warner? Is QVC Sound In Corporate Finance Terms? Video |
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| Sep. 29 | Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) |
| Assessing the Chrysler Bankruptcy |
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| Sep. 21 | Efraim Benmelech (Harvard) and Nittai Bergman (MIT Sloan) |
| Negotiating with Labor Under Financial Distress |
2008-2009
| Apr. 30 | Alvin Hansen Symposium on Public Policy: Reregulating the U.S. Financial Markets: What should We Do Once the Recession is Over? Principal speakers: Bob Shiller (Yale) and Randy Kroszner (Chicago GSB and, until very recently, Federal Reserve Board), Discussants: Hal Scott (Harvard Law School), Bob Pozen (MFS), George Kaufman (Loyola Business School) and Ben Friedman (Harvard Department of Economics). |
| Apr. 27 | Fausto Panunzi (Bocconi University) |
| Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms |
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| Apr. 21 | Albert Choi (Virginia) and George Triantis (Harvard) |
| Strategic Vagueness in Contract Design:
The Case of Corporate Acquisitions |
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| Mar. 2 | Moshe Cohen (MIT) |
| Revisiting Corporate Governance Regulation: Firm Heterogeneity and the Market for Corporate Domicile |
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| Feb. 23 | Anil Kashyap (Chicago GSB) |
| Rethinking Capital Regulation |
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| Jan. 15 | A Discussion with Mark Gordon (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Professor Howell Jackson (HLS),
and Professor Allen Ferrell (HLS), moderated by Professor Jonathan Zittrain (HLS) |
| Lemmings or Victims? Getting to the Bottom of Wall Street’s Role in the Current Financial Crisis Video |
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| Dec. 2 | Mark Roe (Harvard) |
| Does Delaware Compete? |
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| Dec. 1 | Joseph Bachelder (Bachelder Law Offices) |
| Dec. 1 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) |
| A Theory of Firm Scope |
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| Nov. 25 | Rodgin Cohen (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP) |
| The Future of M&A: Talk and Q&A with Rodgin Cohen Video |
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| Nov. 24 | Barney Frank (Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives) |
| Nov. 18 | Jeffrey Lipshaw (Suffolk University Law School) |
| Cross Border Deals Video |
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| Nov. 18 | Raymond McGuire (Citigroup), Toby Myerson (Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison), and Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps) |
| Cross Border Deals Video |
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| Nov. 18 | Justice Jack Jacobs (Delaware State Courts) |
| Video |
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| Nov. 17 | John Olson (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP) and Ted Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) Video |
| Nov. 17 | Justice Jack Jacobs (Delaware State Courts) |
| Video |
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| Nov. 17 | Marc Weingarten (Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP), Roy Katzovicz (Pershing Square Capital Management LP), Theodore (Ted) Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), and John Olson (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP) |
| Regulatory Issues in Takeovers: § 13(d) & Beyond Video |
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| Nov. 17 | Christian Leuz (University of Chicago) |
| Voluntary Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: Evidence from Firms' Responses to the Enron Shock |
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| Nov. 14 | Ben Heineman (GE, Corporate) |
| High Performance with High Integrity |
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| Nov. 11 | Greg Taxin (CEO, Glass Lewis) |
| Nov. 11 | John Finley (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP), James Morphy (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP), Isaac Corré (Eton Park Capital Management LP), and Steven Davidoff (University of Connecticut Law School) |
| Broken Deals: Who's to Blame? Video |
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| Nov. 10 | Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Market-Based Corrective Actions |
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| Nov. 3 | Robert Herz (Chairman, U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board) |
| Nov. 3 | Michael Weisbach (Ohio State University) |
| Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis |
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| Oct. 28 | Victor Lewkow (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP), George (Skip) Battle (PeopleSoft) and Guhan Subramanian (Harvard) |
| Private Equity Buy-outs Video |
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| Oct. 27 | Ryan Bubb (Harvard) |
| Consumer Biases and Firm Ownership |
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| Oct. 15 | Paul Cappuccio and Annaliese Kambour (Time Warner, Inc.), Steve Arcano (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP), and Bob Schumer (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP) |
| Spinoffs - The Time Warner Cable Deal |
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| Oct. 14 | Dhammika Dharmapala (Connecticut) and Vikramaditya Khanna (Michigan) |
| Corporate Governance, Enforcement, and Firm Value: Evidence from India |
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| Oct. 7 | Richard Climan (Cooley Godward LLP) and Eileen Nugent (Skadden, Arps) |
| The Merger Agreement as a Contract II Video |
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| Oct. 1 | Discussion with HLS Professors Lucian Bebchuk, Howell Jackson, Hal Scott, and Elizabeth Warren moderated by Dean Elena Kagan. |
|
The Financial Crisis: Causes and Cures Video |
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| Sep. 30 | John Coates (Harvard) |
| Regulation of Mutual Funds and Other Collective Investments |
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| Sep. 22 | Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago) |
| Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States |
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| Sep. 22 | Ethiopis Tafara (Director of the Office of International Affairs, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission) |
| The SEC Initiative on Mutual Recognition |
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| Sep. 22 | Robert Jackson (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Private Equity and Executive Compensation |
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| Sep. 17 | Mark Solomon (Coughlin, Stoia, Geller, Rudman & Robbins LLP), Geoffrey C. Jarvis (Grant & Eisenhofer P.A.), and Chad Johnson (Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman LLP) |
| Introduction to Corporate Practice - Investor Litigation |
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| Sep. 16 | Jennifer Bethel (Babson), Allen Ferrell (Harvard), and Gang Hu (Babson) |
| Law and Economic Issues in Subprime Litigation |
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| Sep. 15 | Bélen Villalonga (Harvard) |
| Family Control of Firms and Industries |
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| Sep. 12 | Eileen T. Nugent (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates), Christopher L. Mann (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP), and Matthew J. Gardella (Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP) |
| Introduction to Corporate Practice - Transactional Practice Video |
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| Sep. 10 | Andrew S. Tulumello (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP), Theodore N. Mirvis (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), and Allan J. Arffa (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP) |
| Introduction to Corporate Practice - Corporate Litigation Video |
2007-2008
| Apr. 15 | Howell Jackson and Mark Roe (HLS) |
| Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence | |
| Apr. 7 | Ryan Bubb (Harvard) |
| Joint Ownership | |
| Mar. 17 | Oliver Hart (Harvard) |
| Hold-Up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points | |
| Feb. 26 | John Coates (HLS) and Reinier Kraakman (HLS) |
| CEO Tenure, Performance and Turnover in S&P 500 Companies | |
| Feb. 4 | John Coates (HLS) |
| On Being a Corporate Lawyer | |
| Dec. 4 | Guhan Subramanian (HLS) |
| Go-Shops vs. No-Shops: Evidence and Implications | |
| Dec. 4 | Eric Roiter (Fidelity) and Isaac Corré (Eton Park Capital Management) |
| The Role and Rights of Shareholders | |
| Video | |
| Dec. 3 | Robin Greenwood (Harvard Business School) |
| Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers | |
| Nov. 29 | Justice Jack Jacobs (Delaware Supreme Court) |
| Delaware's Takeover Law | |
| Audio | |
| Nov. 28 | John Wilcox (TIAA-CREF) and Stanley Keller (Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP) |
| The Nomination and Election of Directors | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 27 | Ted Mirvis, Paul Rowe, Andy Brownstein (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Video | |
| Nov. 26 | Martin Lipton (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Future of M&A | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 20 | William Ackman (Pershing Square Capital), Roy Katzovic (Pershing Square Capital), Sy Lorne (Millennium Capital), Robert Knapp (Ironsides Partners LLC) |
| Hedge Fund Activism II | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 19 | David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Richard Hall (Cravath), Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps) |
| Quick Look at a Cross-Border Deal | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 13 | Toby Myerson (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP) |
| Video | |
| Nov. 13 | Eileen Nugent (Skadden Arps), John Finley (Simpson), Bob Friedman (Blackstone), and Lou D'Ambrosio (Avaya) |
| Private Equity Buy-outs | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 12 | Robert Monks (Lens Governance Advisors), Sophie L’helias (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), and Anne Simpson (International Corporate Governance Network) |
| Video | |
| Nov. 12 | Hal Scott (HLS) |
| Competitiveness | |
| Nov. 6 | Ben Heineman (WilmerHale, HLS, Harvard Kennedy School) |
| Corporate Integrity and Corporate Performance | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 6 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) |
| CEO Centrality | |
| Nov. 5 | Mark Ramseyer (HLS) |
| Public and Private Firm Compensation Compared: Evidence from Japanese Tax Returns | |
| Nov. 5 | Martha Carter (RiskMetrics Group) |
| Accountability and Engagement | |
| Video | |
| Oct. 30 | Matthew Mark (Jet Capital Management) |
| Hedge Fund Activism | |
| Video | |
| Oct. 29 | Michael Jensen (Harvard Business School) and Werner Erhard |
| Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality | |
| Oct. 15 | Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics) |
| Does Financial Regulation Matter? Market Volatility and the U.S. 1933/34 Acts | |
| Oct. 15 | Lance Lindblom (Nathan Cummings Foundation) |
| The Power of the Proxy | |
| Video | |
| Oct. 15 | Annaliese Kambour and Michael Del Nin (Time Warner) |
| Spin-offs, Activism, Taxes | |
| Video | |
| Oct. 9 | Richard Climan (Cooley Godward), Faiza Saeed (Cravath), Leigh Walton (Bass Berry) |
| The Merger Agreement as a Contract II | |
| Oct. 1 | Michael Barry (Grant & Eisenhofer) |
| Shareholder-Adopted Bylaws | |
| Sep. 25 | Andrei Shleifer (Harvard) |
| The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins | |
| Sep. 17 | Efraim Benmelech (Harvard) |
| Vintage Capital and Credit Protection |
2006-2007
| Apr. 23 | Antoinette Schoar (Sloan School, MIT) |
| Judge-Specific Differences in Chapter 11 and Firm Outcomes | |
| Apr. 10 | Mark Roe (Harvard Law School), and Jordan Siegal (Harvard Business School) |
| Political Instability and Financial Development | |
| Apr. 9 | Giacomo Ponzetto (Harvard) |
| Entrepreneurship and the Boundaries of the Firm | |
| Mar. 20 | Ehud Kamar (USC Law School) |
| Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis | |
| Mar. 12 | Albert Bravo (Harvard) |
| Shared Control and Outcomes in Private Firms | |
| Mar. 6 | Allen Ferrell (Harvard Law School) |
| Business Law as a Source of Comparative Advantage | |
| Feb. 27 | Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Law School) |
| The Power of Takeover Defenses | |
| Feb. 6 | Yair Listokin (Yale Law School) |
| Management Always Wins the Close Ones | |
| Dec. 5 | Joseph Bachelder (Bachelder Law Offices) |
| Executive Compensation – Joseph Bachelder's perspective | |
| Dec. 5 | Tom Baker & Sean Griffith (University of Connecticut Law School) |
| D&O Insurance, Corporate Governance, and Securities Litigation | |
| Dec. 4 | Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law School) |
| CEO Tenure, Performance, and Turnover | |
| Nov. 30 | Isaac Corré (Eton Capital Management), Robert Mendelsohn (former CEO, Royal Sun), Greg Taxin (CEO, Glass Lewis), Damon Silvers (Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO) |
| Shareholder Rights and Roles | |
| Video, Photos | |
| Nov. 27 | Peter Atkins (Skadden, Arps) |
| The Future of M&A: A Look Forward From Here | |
| Video, Photos | |
| Nov. 21 | Marshall Cohen (Brock & Blackwell), Rob Spatt (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett), Robert Kindler (Morgan Stanley), Paul Rowe (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) |
| Special Transaction Committees: How (and how well) do they work? | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 20 | Mario Gamboa (Harvard University) |
| Bankruptcy, Litigation and Resolution of Distress | |
| Nov. 14 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) |
| Lucky CEOs | |
| Nov. 14 | Robert A.G. Monks (Lens Governance Advisors) |
| Corporate Governance and Value | |
| Video | |
| Nov. 13 | Ben Heineman (former general counsel, General Electric) |
| The Quest for High Performance with High Integrity (at GE) | |
| Nov. 13 | Michael Weisbach (University of Illinois) |
| The Financial Structure of Private Equity Firms | |
| Nov. 7 | Ed Haldeman (CEO, Putnam Investments), Marty Lipton (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Jay Lorsch (Harvard Business School), Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), Josh Friedman (Canyon Capital Advisors), James C. Morphy (Sullivan & Cromwell) |
| Stockholder Activisms: Has Just Say No Become Always Say Yes? | |
| Video, Photos | |
| Nov. 7 | Geoffrey Miller (NYU) |
| Ex Ante Choices of Law and Forum: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Merger Agreements | |
| Nov. 6 | Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Law School) |
| Bargaining in the Shadow of the Pill | |
| Nov. 6 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), Martijn Cremers (Yale School of Management), and Urs Peyer (Chicago School of Business & INSEAD) |
| Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team | |
| Oct. 31 | Isaac Corré (Eton Park Capital Management) |
| Hedge Fund Activism | |
| Oct. 31 | Daniel Burch (CEO, MacKenzie Partners), Alan Miller (Co-Chairman, Innisfree M&A), Joele Frank (Managing Partner, Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher), Dan Stoller (Skadden, Arps) |
| Proxy Fights: How Do They Really Work? | |
| Video | |
| Oct. 30 | Oliver Hart (Harvard University) |
| Contracts as Reference Points | |
| Oct. 18 | Richard Parsons (CEO, Time Warner), Gene Sykes (Goldman Sachs), Bruce Wasserstein (CEO, Lazard Ltd.), Paul Cappuccio (VP, Time Warner) |
| Spinoffs and Break-ups: Icahn & Time Warner | |
| Video, Photos | |
| Oct. 16 | Enrico Perotti (Universiteit van Amsterdam) |
| Investor Protection and Entry | |
| Oct. 10 | Richard Climan (Cooley Godward), Eileen Nugent (Skadden Arps), Lou Kling (Skadden Arps) |
| The Merger Agreement As A Contract | |
| Video | |
| Oct. 3 | David Walker (Boston University) |
| Financial Accounting and Corporate Behavior | |
| Sep. 26 | Michael Barry (Grant & Eisenhofer) |
| The AFSCME vs. AIG Case | |
| Sep. 25 | Urs Peyer (Chicago School of Business & INSEAD) |
| Weak Shareholder Rights: A Product Market Rationale | |
| Sep. 18 | Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University) |
| Debt Enforcement Around the World |
2005-2006
| May 1 | Mark Garamaise |
| The Effects of Non-competition Agreements on Executive Compensation and Firm Investment | |
| Mar. 20 | Christopher Snyder |
| Targeting Employees for Corporate Crime and Forbidding Their Indemnification | |
| Mar. 7 | Jonathan Macey |
| Getting the Word Out About Fraud: A Theoretical Analysis of Whistle-blowing and Insider Trading | |
| Mar. 6 | Kenneth Ayotte |
| Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of “Bankruptcy Remoteness” | |
| Feb. 28 | Assaf Hamdani and Reinier Kraakman |
| Rewarding Outside Directors | |
| Feb. 21 | Vikramaditya Khanna |
| The Economic History of the Corporate Form in Ancient India | |
| Nov. 29 | Marcel Kahan (NYU) |
| Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control | |
| Nov. 28 | Daniel Wolfenzon |
| Inside the Family Firm:The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance | |
| Nov. 22 | John Finley, Simpson Thacher; Dennis Hersch, Davis Polk; Mark Morton, Potter Anderson; Patricia Vlahakis, Wachtell, Lipton. |
| Contract v. Fiduciary Duty Principles?: Deal Protections II Panel Discussion with outside speakers | |
| Nov. 21 | Raghuram G. Rajan |
| Creating Constituencies for Reform | |
| Nov. 15 | Andrei Shleifer (Harvard Economics Department) |
| The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing | |
| Nov. 14 | Bengt Holmstrom |
| Corporate Governance in Context | |
| Nov. 8 | David Katz, Wachtell, Lipton; Lou Kling, Skadden Arps; James Morphy, Sullivan & Cromwell; Faiza Saeed, Cravath, Swaine |
| The Merger As A Contract II | |
| Nov. 8 | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) |
| The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise | |
| Nov. 7 | Randall Morck |
| Creative Destruction and the Firm-Specific Performance | |
| Nov. 4 | Joseph Bachelder, Roel Campos, Byron Georgiou, Lerach Coughlin, Alan Hevesi, William Lerach, Robert Mendelsohn, Robert Monks, James Morphy, Toby Myerson, John Olson, Leo Strine, & John Wilcox |
| The Pros and Cons of Personal Director Liability | |
| Video Presentation | |
| Nov. 3 | Leo Strine, John Wilcox, John Wilson, Ted Mirvis |
| Panel on the Division of Power Between Shareholders and Management | |
| Video Presentation | |
| Oct. 18 | Michael Carroll, Davis, Polk; William Kelly, Davis, Polk; Victor Lewkow, Cleary Gottlieb; Donald Wolfe, Potter Anderson |
| The Revival of “Enhanced” Scrutiny?: Mock Oral Argument of Poison Pill Case followed by panel discussion | |
| Oct. 18 | Paul Mahoney (Virginia) |
| Mandatory Versus Contractual Disclosure in Securities Markets: Evidence from the 1930s | |
| Oct. 17 | Holger M. Mueller |
| Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations | |
| Oct. 10 | Luigi Zingales |
| The Corporate Governance Role of the Media | |
| Oct. 5 | Robert Mendelsohn |
| US and UK Corporate Governance | |
| Video Presentation | |
| Oct. 3 | Dennis C. Mueller |
| The Effects of Ownership Concentration and Identity on Investment performance | |
| Sep. 26 | Ravi Singh |
| Board Independence and the Design of Executive Compensation | |
| Sep. 26 | Joseph Bachelder |
| Executive Compensation - Joseph Bachelder's Perspective | |
| Video Presentation | |
| Sep. 21 | Robert Monks |
| Capitalism Without Owners will Fail |
2004-2005
| Apr. 11 | Lucian Bebchuk & Yaniv Grinstein |
| Executive Compensation and Firm Size | |
| Mar. 21 | Michael Jensen, Kevin Murphy, & Eric Wruck |
| Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, Where are the Problems, and How to Fix Them | |
| Mar. 15 | John Coffee |
| Gatekeepers: The Role of the Professions in Corporate Governance | |
| Mar. 7 | Armando Gomes & Gordon Phillips |
| Why Do Public Firms Issue Public and Private Equity, Debt, and Convertibles? | |
| Feb. 28 | Mark Roe |
| Delaware's Politics | |
| Feb. 7 | Andrei Shleifer |
| The Evolution of Precedent | |
| Nov. 29: | Antoinette Schoar (MIT), co-authored with Marianne Bertrand, Francis Kramarz, and David Thesmar |
| Politically Connected CEOs and Corporate Outcomes: Evidence from France | |
| Nov. 15: | David Walker |
| Managers' Share | |
| Nov. 15: | Josh Lerner (HBS), co-authored with Antoinette Schoar and Wan Wong |
| Smart Institutions, Foolish Choices?: The Limited Partner Puzzle | |
| Oct. 12: | John de Figueiredo (MIT/Princeton), co-authored with Elizabeth Garrett (University of Southern California) |
| Paying for Politics | |
| Oct. 5: | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), co-authored with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell |
| What Matters in Corporate Governance? | |
| Oct. 5: | Robert A.G. Monks |
| The Future of Institutional Shareholder Activism | |
| Video Presentation | |
| Sep. 27: | Graef Crystal |
| The State of Executive Compensation | |
| Video Presenation | |
| Sep. 27: | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) & Zvika Neeman |
| A Political Economy of Corporate Governance |
2003-2004
| March 15: | Guhan Subramanian (HLS) |
| Special Committee Bargaining Power in Freeze-out Mergers: Some Empmirical Evidence | |
| March 15: | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) |
| The Case Against Shareholder Access to the Ballot | |
| March 15: | Andrei Shleifer (Harvard) |
| Disorder and Economic Growth. | |
| March 3: | Greg Taxin, (Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC) |
| "Evaluating Corporate Governance" | |
| March 1: | Yaniv Grinstein (Cornell) |
| CEO Compensation and Incentives: Evidence from M&A Bonuses. | |
| Feb. 23: | Mihir Desai (HBS), Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner. |
| Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Europe | |
| Feb. 10: | Einer Elhauge (HLS) |
| Sacrificing Corporate Profits in the Public Interest | |
| Feb. 9: | Dirk Jenter (MIT) |
| Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation. | |
| Feb. 3: | Ronald Gilson (Stanford) & Reinier Kraakman (HLS) |
| The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias | |
| Dec. 1: | Robert Monks and Allen Sykes |
| Capitalism Without Owners Must Fail | |
| Video | |
| Dec. 1: | Nicola Gennaioli |
| Contracting in the Shadow of the Law | |
| Nov. 24: | Suzanne E. Majewski and Dean V. Williamson |
| Incomplete Contracting and the Structure of Collaborative R&D Agreements | |
| Nov. 18: | Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan) |
| Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax | |
| Nov. 17: | Oren Bar-Gill and Lucian A. Bebchuk |
| The Cost of Permitting Managers to Sell Shares | |
| Nov. 11: | Terry Fisher |
| An Alternative Compensation System | |
| Nov. 10: | Casey B. Mulligan and Andrei Shleifer |
| Population and Regulation | |
| Nov. 4: | Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) and Alma Cohen |
| The Costs of Entrenched Boards | |
| Nov. 3: | Jeremy Stein (Harvard Economics) |
| Why Are Most Funds Open-End? Competition and the Limits of Arbitrage | |
| Oct. 21: | Jeff Strnad (Stanford) |
| Conceptualizing The "Fat Tax": The Role of Food Taxes in Developed Economies | |
| Oct. 20: | Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (CEFIR, Visiting Princeton), co-authored with Ruben Enikolopov |
| Decentralization and Political Institutions | |
| Oct. 7 | Mark Roe (HLS) |
| Delaware's Politics | |
| Sep. 30: | Andrew Guzman (HLS) |
| The Design of International Agreements | |
| Sep. 29: | Allen Ferrell (HLS) |
| Mandated Disclosure and Stock Returns: Evidence from the Over-the-Counter Market. | |
| Sep. 23: | Guhan Subramanian (HLS) |
| Bargaining in the Shadow of Takeover Defenses | |
| Sep. 22. | Josh Lerner (HBS), co-authored with Antoinette Schoar |
| Private Equity in the Developing World: The Determinants of Transaction Structures | |
| Sep. 16: | Robert Sitkoff (Northwestern) |
| An Agency Cost Theory of Trust Law | |
| Sep. 15: | Alexandre Dyck (HBS), co-authored with Luigi Zingales and Mihir Desai |
| Corporate Governance and Taxation |
2002-2003