Corporate governance debates have undergone a fundamental shift, with environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues coming to the forefront of decision-making by boards, executives and shareholders. Across a spectrum of stakeholders, companies and their boards face pressure to...

To promote fair and sustainable capitalism and help business and labor work together to build an American economy that works for all, this paper presents a comprehensive proposal to reform the American corporate governance system by aligning the incentives of those who control large U.S....

With ESG and conscious capitalism dominating boardroom conversations across America, Delaware’s adoption of the Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) has been a recent attempt to support this movement by offering a new form of corporate governance that seeks to create a positive impact on society...

In response to a Private Member’s Resolution calling upon the Ontario Securities Commission to conduct a consultation on corporate social responsibility and environmental, social and governance reporting standards and to adopt an enhanced standardized reporting framework, the Hennick Centre...

COVID revealed that collective problems that exist at global scale require resources beyond those that can be easily mustered under the current rules for the American economic system. Unless one assumes that current rules governing the economy are adequate to address the need for a durable...

The financial crisis introduced a new phrase into the banking industry's lexicon - "too big to fail." "Too big to fail" describes financial institutions so important to the financial markets that their collapse or bankruptcy would disrupt the capital markets in such catastrophic ways that it...

The large American corporation faces ever-rising pressure to pursue a purpose beyond shareholder profit. This rising pressure interacts with changes in industrial organization in a way that has not been comprehensively analyzed and is generally ignored. It’s not just purpose pressure that is...

Economic inequality is soaring and the consensus in some circles is that corporations' myopic focus on profits is largely to blame. At first glance a stakeholder approach would seem an appealing solution: surely if the purpose of corporations were not wealth maximization for shareholders but...

The UK's recent vote for Brexit has sparked a fierce debate over the implications for the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and UK citizens living in the rest of the EU. So far, however, there has been relatively little discussion of the implications of Brexit for legal persons — that is,...

Shareholders exert significant influence on the social and environmental behavior of U.S. corporations through their votes on social responsibility resolutions. However, the outcomes of many social responsibility resolutions are distorted, because the largest shareholders – institutional...