Business Scholarship Podcast

John Rice , visiting assistant professor of law at Duquesne University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Rainbow-Washing . In this article Rice confronts the dichotomy between corporate expressions of support for the LGBTQIA+ community, on the one hand, and actions inconsistent with those commitments, on the other hand. Rice situates this problem in state-law fiduciary...

Christiana Ochoa , professor of law at Indiana University Bloomington, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Deals in the Heartland , which she co-authored with Kacey Cook and Hanna Weil. In this article, Ochoa and her co-authors conduct an ethnography around disputes over wind-farm construction in rural Indiana. Their findings suggest that contracting practices, including...

Lécia Vicente , who teaches business law at Louisiana State University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Ownership Piercing . In this article, Vicente theorizes the unique aspects of the separation of ownership and control in limited liability companies (LLCs) and proposes that in manager-managed LLCs, courts should assess ownership through an evaluative “ownership pie...

Jared Ellias , professor of law at Harvard University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Rise of Bankruptcy Directors , which he co-authored with Ehud Kamar and Kobi Kastiel of Tel Aviv University. In this article Ellias and his co-authors present an empirical study of the rise of independent directors—traditionally a corporate-law concept—in Chapter 11 bankruptcies...

Joseph Pileri , chief legal officer at Mission Driven Finance, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Who Gets to Make a Living? Street Vending in America . Pileri outlines the history and place of street vending in America’s cities, how the business model works and why entrepreneurs pursue it, and the regulatory barriers to entry they face. He closes with proposed reforms t...

Afra Afsharipour , professor of law at the University of California, Davis, and Darren Rosenblum , professor of law at McGill University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their essay Power and Pay in the C-Suite . In this essay, Afsharpiour and Rosenblum extend the board-diversity literature to examine diversity in the next layer of the corporate hierarchy: the C-suite occupied by...

Gerardo Pérez Cavazos , assistant professor at the University of California San Diego; Karen Woody , professor at Washington & Lee University; and Joseph Borg , director of the Alabama Securities Commission, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Corporate Misconduct and Local Journalism as part of the podcast’s Local Journalism, Business, and Society symposium. Pérez Cavazos is the...

Sinja Leonelli , a PhD student at the University of Chicago; Aneesh Raghunandan , assistant professor at the London School of Economics; and John Howard , director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Workplaces and Local Journalism as part of the podcast’s Local Journalism, Business, and Society symposium. Leonelli is the a...

Michael Ewens , professor at the California Institute of Technology; RonNell Andersen Jones , professor at the University of Utah; and Steven Waldman , co-founder and president of Report for America, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss Private Equity and Local Journalism as part of the podcast’s Local Journalism, Business, and Society symposium. Ewens is the author, with Arpit Gupta a...

Tracey George , professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Gender, Credentials and M&A , which she co-authored with Albert Yoon , professor of law and economics at the University of Toronto and Mitu Gulati , professor of law at the University of Virginia. George’s article offers an empirical examination of...

Yesha Yadav , professor of law at Vanderbilt University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Broken Bond Market , which she co-authored with Jonathan Brogaard , professor of finance at the University of Utah. In this article, Yadav and Brogaard observe an inverse relationship between bond liquidity and governance bespokeness, which forces a tradeoff between tradabilit...

George Georgiev , associate professor of law at Emory University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article The Breakdown of the Public–Private Divide in Securities Law: Causes, Consequences, and Reforms . In this article Georgiev traces a breakdown in the division between public and private capital markets as stemming from two decades of deregulatory developments. This breakdo...

Madison Condon , associate professor of law at Boston University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Market Myopia’s Climate Bubble . In this article Condon identifies the causes and consequences of mispricing the climate risk inherent in financial assets. Later in the interview, Condon offers her initial views on the SEC’s proposed climate-disclosure rules. This episode...

Alexander Platt , associate professor of law at the University of Kansas, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Beyond "Market Transparency": Investor Disclosure and Corporate Governance . In this article Platt explores twenty governance impacts driven by Exchange Act Section 13(f)—which requires institutional shareholders to periodically disclose their holdings to the publ...

Anat Alon-Beck , assistant professor of law at Case Western Reserve University, and Darren Rosenblum , professor of law at McGill University, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their articles No More Old Boys’ Club: Institutional Investors’ Fiduciary Duty to Advance Board Gender Diversity and A Duty to Diversify , which were co-authored with Michal Agmon-Gonnen. In these articles, Al...

William Moon , associate professor of law at the University of Maryland, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his article Anonymous Companies . In this article Moon challenges the push for greater transparency of corporate ownership by recognizing legitimate economic, safety, anti-discrimination, and related interests that entrepreneurs might have in corporate anonymity. This episode...

Akshaya Kamalnath , senior lecturer at Australian National University College of Law, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Social Movements, Diversity, and Corporate Short-Termism . In this article, Kamalnath investigates how social movements, often powered by social media, influence corporate commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. She observes, however, that the...

Richard Crowley , assistant professor of accounting at Singapore Management University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his paper Executive Tweets , which he co-authored with Wenli Huang of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hai Lu of the University of Toronto. In the paper the co-authors find that larger market reactions follow financially relevant tweets posted to executives’...

Christina Skinner , assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article Central Bank Activism . In this article, Skinner critically analyzes demands that central banks like the Federal Reserve step beyond their traditional monetary mandates to tackle other fiscal and social challe...

Emmanuel Yimfor , assistant professor of finance at the University of Michigan, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his paper Misconduct Synergies , which was co-authored with Heather Tookes of Yale University. In this paper, Yimfor and Tookes conduct a study of M&A in the investment-advisory industry and find that following mergers, a large share employees of the acquired firm w...

Angela Aneiros , lecturer at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her article The Unlikely Pressure for Accountability: The Insurance Industry’s Role in Social Change . In this article Aneiros examines the role of D&O insurance in shaping corporate directors’ decisions around diversity, equity, and inclusion. This episode is hosted b...

Paolo Saguato , assistant professor of law at George Mason University, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his articles Financial Regulation, Corporate Governance, and the Hidden Costs of Clearinghouses and The Ownership of Clearinghouses: When 'Skin in the Game' Is Not Enough, the Remutualization of Clearinghouses . In these articles, Saguato conducts political-economy analyses of s...

Benjamin Ho , associate professor of economics at Vassar College, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his paper Do Investors Care about Corporate Apologies? Evidence from Chemical Disasters , which he co-authored with Sijia Fan, Qi Ge, and Lirong Ma. In this paper, Ho and his co-authors study impacts on stock prices when companies apologize after chemical disasters. They find that al...

Melissa Jacoby , professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss her essay Shocking Business Bankruptcy Law . In this essay Jacoby examines what she dubs “ad hoc” and “off-label” business bankruptcies as opportunistic uses of Chapter 11 for purposes other than managing overindebtedness. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings...

David Kershaw , dean and professor at the London School of Economics Law School, and Edmund Schuster , associate professor at the London School of Economics Law School, join the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss their article The Purposive Transformation of Corporate Law . In this article Kershaw and Schuster frame the long-standing question of what is a corporation’s purpose in terms of asp...