The Voice of Corporate Governance

This episode has CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney covering the top 10 important events affecting institutional investors from Jan. 4-31.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Shivaram Rajgopal, the Kester and Brynes Professor at Columbia Business School. Professor Rajgopal is the co-author a recent research paper entitled "Lifetime Earnings."

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Rachel Thompson, Professor at the College of Business at North Dakota State University. Professor Thompson is the author of a recent research paper entitled “Reporting Misstatements as Revisions: An evaluation of Managers’ Use of Materiality Discretion.”

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 November 30 - January 4.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Michael Klausner, the Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, at Stanford Law School. Last year, Professor Klausner co-authored a research paper entitled “A Sober Look at SPACs.” Based on research from January 2019 through June 2000, the paper found three disconcerting features of special purpose acquisitions companies: (1) SPAC shares were highly dilutive; (2) the post-merger performance of SPAC shares were quite low; and (3) SPAC sponsors’ returns were extraordinarily high.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Daniel J. Taylor, Associate Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. On November 10th Professor Taylor, together with over 30 other accounting and financial economics scholars, filed a memorandum as amici curie in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in the case of George Assad versus E.Merge Technology Acquisition Corp. 

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 November 1 -30.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professors Gladriel & Jarrod Shobe of Brigham Young University Law School. The Professors are co-authors of a recent research paper entitled “The Dual Class Spectrum.”

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Ethan Rouen, assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit and faculty co-chair of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School. 

In this episode, CII Senior Research Analyst Lucy Nussbaum interviews Professor Daniel Preston of Indiana University. Professor Preston has developed a survey for CII members on challenges faced by institutional investors in pursuing SDG-aligned investment opportunities in Africa.