The Voice of Corporate Governance

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of April 2 - May 5 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

Based in the UK, ShareAction recently released its 2019 Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) signed by 137 investors with over $15 trillion in assets under management. Broadly, these investors are calling for transparency from companies on how they mange workers. In this episode, we sit down with Aine Clarke, Investment Engagement Manager at WDI, to discuss the survey's findings and the futu...

CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Susanna Gallani, assistant professor of business administration, Harvard Business School about her recent research paper entitled “ Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices. ”

In this episode, CII Research Analyst Lucy Nussbaum discusses a set of standards on human capital management reporting published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) with Jeff Higgins who was the lead US representative on the ISO task force that created these standards and is the CEO of the Human Capital Management Institute.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Laurence B. Siegel about his new book, "Fewer, Richer, and Greener." The daily news is often filled with doomsday stories claiming our world is experiencing stagnant economic growth, environmental deterioration, dwindling natural resources, and an unsustainable increase in world population. Mr. Siegel’s new book debunks those n...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of March 2 - April 1 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Andrew Franklin, president of UTR LLC, a public and private equity investor focusing on small-cap companies in consumer discretionary and durable goods manufacturers. They discuss the application and risks of Delaware Corporation Law sections 204 & 205 on defective corporate acts.

In this episode, Professor Wang from Harvard Business School discusses his recent paper demonstrating that the market is inefficiently assessing corporate earnings because too few investors and other market participants read and consider information contained in footnotes to financial reports. 

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of February 6-28 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of January 4 to February 5 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Robert K. Kry, a founding partner of the law firm MoloLamken, on upcoming issues on the Supreme Court's 2019-2020 docket. Specifically, they discuss those cases of particular interest to institutional investors.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of November 28 through January 3 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Renee Jones , Associate Dean of Academics and Professor at Boston College Law School, on her September 11th testimony on dual-class stock before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of November 1 through November 27 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII Executive Director Ken Bertsch interviews Tamara Belinfanti, professor of business and financial law at New York Law School, and Arthur Kohn, partner at Cleary Gottleib, on the Ethical Shareholder Initiative (ESI). ESI's mission is to educate and empower shareholders to work together to help corporations protect long-term interests in sustainable profits earned while resp...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of October 1 though November 1 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII Director of Research Glenn Davis interviews Rhonda Brauer, the principle author of Council of Institutional Investors’ Research and Education Fund's newest publication: Sustainability Reporting Frameworks: A Guide for CIOs .

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of September 1 through October 1 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII legal intern Joe Caputo interviews Georgetown Law Professor Urska Velikonja on legislation and enforcement of federal securities law and how it applies to investors.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of July 30 through August 30 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Preeti Choudhary, Associate Professor of Accounting at Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, on her research paper " Auditors’ Quantitative Materiality Judgments: Properties and Implications for Financial Reporting Reliability ." The research analyzes data made available through the Public Company Accounting...

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of July 1-30 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII Deputy Director Amy Borrus interviews Rakhi Kumar, senior managing director and head of ESG investments at State Street Global Advisors, on R-Factor, a new trademarked ESG scoring system that State Street has developed to inform its proxy voting and engagements with portfolio companies.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of June 1-28 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

Carrie Green of the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System and professor Greg Nagel discuss their research in support of filling the CEO role through internal promotion and developing that person’s preparedness, in part, through board service prior to being named CEO.