The role of the corporation in society is undergoing profound change. With a seismic shift towards the concentration of corporate ownership in the hands of institutional investors and the private ownership of companies, corporate boards and management are facing unprecedented shareholder and societal demands. This includes the proliferation of shareholder activism and institutional investor calls for sustainable investment strategies.
The mission of the Millstein Center is to positively shape and influence the future of the corporation in this new paradigm. Through engagement with business leaders, corporate boards, investors, the legal community and academics, the Center creates meaningful dialogue, while balancing conflicting points of view, to strengthen corporate governance and performance.
Articles
A Computational Analysis of Constitutional Polarization, David E. Pozen, Eric L. Talley, and Julian Nyarko
Anti-Herding Regulation, Ian Ayres and Joshua Mitts
Contracting Out of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Opportunity Waivers, Gabriel Rauterberg and Eric L. Talley
Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation: Evidence from Japan, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Curtis J. Milhaupt
Corporate Political Speech: Who Decides, Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Finding Order in the Morass: The Three Real Justifications for Piercing the Corporate Veil, Jonathan Macey and Joshua Mitts
Informed Trading and Cybersecurity Breaches, Joshua Mitts and Eric L. Talley
Mandatory Disclosure and Individual Investors: Evidence from the Jobs Act, Colleen Honisberg, Robert J. Jackson Jr., and Yu-Ting Forester Wong
Nine Justices, Ten Years: A Statistical Retrospective, Robert J. Jackson Jr. and Thiruvendran Vignarajah
Rethinking Retroactivity, Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Stock Unloading and Banker Incentives, Robert J. Jackson Jr.
The Agency Costs of Agency Capitalism: Activist Investors and the Revaluation of Governance Rights, Ronald J. Gilson and Jeffrey N. Gordon
The Law and Economics of Blockholder Disclosure, Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Toward a Constitutional Review of the Poison Pill Essay, Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
Essays
Bank Resolution in the European Banking Union: A Transatlantic Perspective on What It Would Take, Jeffrey N. Gordon and Wolf-Georg Ringe
Podcasts
Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep0: Introduction, Eric L. Talley
Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep1: Essential – and Broke, Eric L. Talley, Katharina Pistor, and Michael J. Graetz
Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep2: Can the Fed Rescue Us?, Eric L. Talley, Peter Conti-Brown, and Kathryn Judge
Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep3: A New Chapter for Bankruptcy?, Eric L. Talley, Edward R. Morrison, and Kate Waldock
Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep4: Helping Small Businesses Survive – and Thrive, Eric L. Talley, Lynnise E. Pantin, and Tim Wu
Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep5: A Shareholder-Stakeholder Smackdown, Eric L. Talley, Ira M. Millstein, and Leo E. Strine Jr.
Beyond "Unprecedented" S1 Ep6: Pandemic Pressures on Global Trade, Eric L. Talley, Anu Bradford, and Petros C. Mavroidis
Beyond Unprecedented S2 Ep0: Reintroducing Beyond Unprecedented, Eric L. Talley, Kate Waldock, and Stacey Vanek Smith
Beyond Unprecedented S2 Ep1: You Can’t Hire Me, I Quit!, Eric L. Talley, Kate Waldock, and Kate Andrias
Beyond Unprecedented, S2 Ep2: Meme Stock Mania, Eric L. Talley, Kate Waldock, and Joshua Mitts
Beyond Unprecedented S2 Ep3: The Rise – and Results – of Shareholder Activism, Eric L. Talley, Kate Waldock, and Anne E. Robinson
Beyond Unprecedented S2 Ep4: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained, Eric L. Talley, Kate Waldock, Talia B. Gillis, and Alejandro Gerrero
Working Papers
Appraisal Arbitrage and Shareholder Value, Scott Callahan, Darius Palia, and Eric L. Talley
Appraising the "Merger Price" Appraisal Rule, Albert H. Choi and Eric L. Talley
Being True to Trulia: Do Disclosure-Only Settlements in Merger Objection Lawsuits Harm Shareholders?, Eric L. Talley and Giuseppe Dari‐Mattiacci
Board 3.0 – An Introduction, Ronald J. Gilson and Jeffrey N. Gordon
Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Fiduciary Duties in Venture Capital Backed Startups, Sarath Sanga and Eric L. Talley
Global Investor-Director Survey on Climate Risk Management, Kristin Bresnahan, Jens Frankenreiter, Sophie L'Helias, Brea Hinricks, Nina Hodzic, Julian Nyarko, Sneha Pandya, and Eric L. Talley
Is EU Merger Control Used for Protectionism? An Empirical Analysis, Anu Bradford, Robert J. Jackson Jr., and Jonathon Zytnick
The Origins of a Capital Market Union in the United States, Jeffrey N. Gordon and Kathryn Judge