In a time of climate change, racial and economic inequality, and crisis stemming from the
global pandemic, corporations are alternately maligned for their conduct and embraced as a …

The world's largest companies in 2019 by market capitalization-Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft,
and Amazon-all began as venture-backed startups.'They defied existing theory by growing …

This Article aims to provide a foundation for a form of engagement by large institutional
investors and asset managers with their portfolio companies and with the broader corporate …

We create a novel dataset to examine the recent rise in dual-class IPOs. We document that
dual-class firms have different types of controlling shareholders and wedges between voting …

Non-financial companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange face considerable
difficulties due to expensive funding and the need to make complex decisions about their …

Codetermination-a system of shared corporate governance between shareholders and
workers-has been mostly ignored within the US corporate governance literature. When it has …

The consensus around shareholder primacy is crumbling. Investors, long assumed to be
uncomplicated profit-maximizers, are looking for ways to express a wider range of values in …

In 2015, Etsy was a crown jewel of the movement for socially conscious business,
simultaneously pursuing multiple objectives beyond profit. It successfully operated for over …

Dual-class shares have become one of the most controversial issues in today's capital
markets and corporate governance debates. In the past years, academics, regulators …

In January 2013, activist investor Potomac Capital Partners took a stake in a company called
PLX Technology and, via a series of open letters, urged it to find an acquirer.'When the …