The Voice of Corporate Governance

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses developments in corporate governance and related CII advocacy activities in connection with the Administration’s initiative to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system for the period of October 4 to November 1 .

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professors Steven Boivie and Michael Withers of Texas A&M University, and Scott Griffin of the University of Georgia. Along with Professor Kevin Corley of Arizona State University, the professors are co-authors of a recent research article entitled “ Corporate directors’ implicit theories of the roles and duties of boards .”

In this episode, CII General Counsel interviews Fred Fox, Partner at Kaplan Fox, on the topic of current legal issues relating SPACs and shareholder litigation. 

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses developments in corporate governance and related CII advocacy activities in connection with the Administration’s initiative to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system for the period of August 31 - October 4.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Robert K. Kry, a Founding Partner of the law firm of MoloLamken. Kry provides a preview  of investor-related issues that are expected to be addressed during the 2021-2022 term of the Supreme Court of the United States which starts on October 4.

After the 2021 proxy season, headlines were rife with stories about investors pushing back against overly generous CEO pay packages and compensation that did not align with lagging corporate performance. In this episode, CII Editor Rosemary Lally speaks with Julian Hamud, senior director of executive compensation research for Glass Lewis, about what this means for say on pay. 

After the 2021 proxy season, headlines were rife with stories about investors pushing back against overly generous CEO pay packages and compensation that did not align with lagging corporate performance. In this episode, CII Editor Rosemary Lally speaks with  Galen Spielman, senior associate of U.S. compensation research at ISS, about what this means for say on pay. 

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses developments in corporate governance and related CII advocacy activities in connection with the Administration’s initiative to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system for the period of August 2-31.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor B. Espen Eckbo,  the Tuck Centennial Chair Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.  Professor Eckbo is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled “ Valuation Effects of Norway’s Board Gender-Quota Law Revisited .”

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Madison Condon, Associate Professor at Boston University's  School of Law . Professor Condon is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled “ Market Myopia’s Climate Bubble .”

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses developments in corporate governance and related CII advocacy activities in connection with the Administration’s initiative to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system for the period of June 30 - August 2.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Heidi Welsh, Executive Director of the Sustainable Investments Institute and Co-author of proxy preview , on the recent 2021 proxy season.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Andrew A. King from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. Professor King is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled " Materiality and Corporate Sustainability: A Model Uncertainty Analysis ."

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Shiva Rajgopal, the Kester and Byrnes Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University. Professor Rajgopal is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled " Returns to Seeking Political Influence: Early Evidence from the COVID-19 Stimulus ." Professor Rajgopal's also wrote a recent article for Forbes  entitl...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses developments in corporate governance and related CII advocacy activities in connection with the Administration’s initiative to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system for the period of June 2-30

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Aaron Yoon, the co-author of a recent research paper entitled “ Which Corporate ESG News does the Market React? " Yoon is the Assistant Professor of Accounting Information and Management at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Usha R. Rodrigues from the University of Georgia Law School. Professor Rodrigues is the co-author of a 2011  research paper on special purpose acquisition companies or SPACs, is currently conducting ongoing, active research into SPACs and in May testified before U.S. Congress at a hearing entitled “ Going Public: SPACs, Direct...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Richard W. Painter, the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.  Professor Painter is the author of " Board Diversity: A Response to Professor Fried " in which he details why he supports Nasdaq's proposal to the SEC to approve a new rule requiring most Nasdaq-listed companies...

(Originally released in January of 2020)  In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews the newly-appointed SEC Director of Corporate Finance Renee Jones (then Associate Dean of Academics and Professor at Boston College Law School) on her September 11, 2019 testimony on dual-class stock before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneursh...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Yaron Nili, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Nili is the co-author of a research paper forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review entitled “ The Giant Shadow of Corporate Gadflies .”

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses developments in corporate governance and related CII advocacy activities in connection with the Administration’s initiative to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system for the period of April 30 to June 2.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews  C. Gregory Rogers the Founder of Era-Tos-Thenes. Rogers is the author of a recent paper published by Era-Tos-Thenes entitled “ Carbon Quotient: How to Create accountability for net zero across the investment value chain. "

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Nitzan Shilon, a Professor at Peking University School of Transactional Law.  Professor Shilon is the author of a recent research paper entitled Pay for Destruction: The Executive Compensation Arrangements That Encourage Value-Decreasing Stock Buybacks .     

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses developments in corporate governance and related CII advocacy activities in connection with the Administration’s initiative to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system for the period of March 31 - April 30.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Carol Adams, Professor of Accounting at Durham University Business School, Durham University, United Kingdom and Swineburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Professor Adams is a co-author of a paper entitled Connecting the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing an...