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Gow, Ian D.; Larcker, David F.; Watts, Edward M. - 2020 - Draft: November 16, 2020

The lack of diversity across gender and race of corporate boards has been one of the most significant issues in corporate board governance in recent years. Given the critical role that shareholders have in approving director appointments, we analyze voting patterns in director elections to...

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Board diversity and shareholder voting

Gowa, Ian D.; Larcker, David F.; Watts, Edward M. - 2020 - Draft: November 16, 2020

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Board diversity and shareholder voting

Gow, Ian D.; Larcker, David F.; Watts, Edward M. - In: The journal of corporate finance : contracting, … 83 (2023), pp. 1-25

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Diversity in the C-Suite : The Dismal State of Diversity Among Fortune 100 Senior Executives

Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2020

There has been a broad push in recent years to increase diversity at the board and CEO levels of public corporations. Despite this effort, diversity on boards and in senior leadership positions has not reached the levels to which advocates aspire. We provide new insight into this topic by...

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Pioneering Women on Boards : Pathways of the First Female Directors

Larcker, David F. - 2018

There is considerable interest in increasing the representation of women on the boards of publicly traded corporations. Currently, only 17 percent of independent directors in the United States are women. In this Closer Look, we examine the pathways that women took to become the first female...

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Is a Powerful CEO Good or Bad for Shareholders?

Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2013

shaping outcomes around them. CEO power can be exercised across a wide spectrum of decisions, including those regarding … extent to which having a powerful CEO is beneficial to an organization. CEO power can be positive or negative, depending how … appropriate oversight? How much power is too much power? Topics, Issues and Controversies in Corporate Governance and Leadership …

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Corporate governance, chief executive officer compensation, and firm performance

Core, John E.; Holthausen, Robert W.; Larcker, David F. - In: Journal of financial economics 51 (1999) 3, pp. 371-406

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Sharing the Pain : How Did Boards Adjust CEO Pay in Response to COVID-19?

Batish, Amit - 2020

Scrutiny of CEO pay increases during times of economic stress, when it is not clear how much pay CEOs should receive when corporate profitability suffers due to an unforeseen decline in the operating environment. On the one hand, the board might want to preserve incentives, recognizing that a...

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Netflix approach to governance : genuine transparency with the board

Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2018

The hallmark of good corporate governance is an independent board of directors to oversee management. However, it is not clear that independent directors receive the information they need to make fully informed decisions on all key matters. Partly, this is due to an information gap, whereby...

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Governance aches and pains : is bad governance chronic?

Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian - 2016

Institutional investors pay considerable attention to the quality of a company's governance. Unfortunately, it is difficult for outside observers to reliably gauge governance quality. Oftentimes, poor governance manifests itself only after decisions have been made and their outcomes known. We...

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