The Voice of Corporate Governance

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Frederick Alexander, CEO of The Shareholder Commons, on McRitchie v. Zuckerberg -  a class-action lawsuit filed on October 3, 2022, in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The complaint alleges that the directors of Meta Platforms breached their fiduciary duties by ignoring the impact of the companies’ operations on the diversified portfolios...

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from January 4 to February 2, 2023.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Scott Hirst, Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law. Professor Hirst is the author of a recent research article entitled " Saving Climate Disclosure. "

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from December 2, 2022, to January 4, 2023.

In this episode, CII General Counsel interviews Shiva Rajgopal,  the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. Professor Rajgopal is the co-author of a recent report entitled " Competitive Target Pay Practices for CEO Compensation ."

In this episode, CII General Counsel interviews Albert L. Nagy, Professor of Accountancy at John Carroll University. Professor Nagy is one of the co-authors of a recent research paper entitled “ CPAs and Big 4 Office Audit Quality .”

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Andrew F. Tuch, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Professor Tuch is a co-author of a recent research article entitled " The Further Erosion of Investor Protection: Expanded Exemptions, SPAC Mergers and Direct Listings ."

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from October 31 - December 2.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Lauren Cunningham, the Keith Stanga Professor of Accounting at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and Director of Research for the C. Warren Neel Corporate Governance Center, and Sarah Stein, associate professor and the Deloitte Foundation Faculty Fellow in the department of Accounting and Information Systems at Virginia Tech. Profess...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Preeti Choudhary of the University of Arizona Eller College of Management. Professor Choudhary is a co-author of a recent paper titled " Audit Committee Oversight and Financial Reporting Reliability: Are Audit Committees Overloaded? "

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews PwC's Vice Chair and US Trust Solutions Co-Leader Wes Bricker and Managing Director and People Leader Danna Spenceley. They discuss human capital and the accounting profession, including strategies for hiring and retention, the decline of college enrollment with regard to meeting assurance business needs, and public company disclosu...

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from October 3-31.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Khrystyna Bochkay, Associate Professor of accounting at Miami Herbert Business School at the University of Miami and Jeffrey Hales, professor of accounting at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin . Professors Bochkay (an academic fellow at the International Sustainability Standards Board) and Hales (a recen...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Shiva Rajgopal, the Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor at Columbia Business School at Columbia University. Professor Rajgopal is one of the co-authors of a recent research paper entitled “ Does ESG Negative Screening Work? ”

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from August 30 to October 3.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Robert K. Kry, a Founding Partner of the law firm of MoloLamken LLP. Listeners will hear an expert legal analysis of the investor implications of the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency, followed by an investor-oriented preview of the Court’s 2022-2023 term.

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from August 1-30.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Bob Conway, the Author of " The Truth About Public Accounting - Understanding and Managing the Risks the Auditors Bring to the Audit. "

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Wes Bricker, Vice Chair - US Trust Solutions Co-Leader at PwC on PwC's recently released 2022 Consumer Intelligence Series Survey on Trust .

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from June 29 to August 1.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Caleb N. Griffin, Assistant Professor of Law, at the University of Arkansas School of Law. Last month Professor Griffin testified before the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs at a hearing entitled " Considering the Index Fund Voting Process ."

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from May 31 to June 29.

In this episode, CII Legal Intern Alvaro Reyes interviews Ryan Wilson, a Professor of Accounting at the University of Iowa. Professor Willson is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled " Not Ready for Primetime: Financial Reporting Quality After SPAC Mergers ."

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, the Founder & President of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute and the Senior Associate Dean of the Yale School of Management, and  Steven Tian, Director of Research of the  Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute. Sonnenfeld and Tian are co-authors of a recent paper entitled " It Pays For Comp...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Daniel J. Taylor, the Arthur Anderson Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Taylor is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled " Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable ."