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Dual Class Share Voting versus the 'Empty Voting' of Mutual Fund Advisors

From time to time I am asked to explain how I can support the disproportionate voting found in dual class shares while at the same time strongly criticizing the ...

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Bernard S. Sharfman

Shareholder Voting in Proxy Contests for Corporate Control, Uncontested Director Elections and Management Proposals: A Review of the Empirical Literature

While the board of directors manages and directs the business and affairs of a corporation, the shareholders have distinctly more limited powers: they may sell their shares, vote where allowed,...

28 November 2017

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Patrick C. Tricker

Beauty and Appearance in Corporate Director Elections

What are the qualities that shareholders look for in a director candidate? Do beauty and the appearance of competence in a candidate affect corporate elections? In our recent working...

1 November 2017

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The Case for Speeding the Merger Process

Corporate planners and practitioners know well that it takes quite a long time to close a long-form merger, with the shareholder approval requirement accounting for the bulk of the delay...

18 October 2017

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The Case Against Passive Shareholder Voting

In the past few years, investors have begun to embrace the reality that academics have been championing for decades—that a broad-based passive indexing strategy is superior to picking individual stocks...

11 September 2017

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