The Voice of Corporate Governance

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 June 2-30

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Aaron Yoon, the co-author of a recent research paper entitled “Which Corporate ESG News does the Market React?" Yoon is the Assistant Professor of Accounting Information and Management at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Usha R. Rodrigues from the University of Georgia Law School. Professor Rodrigues is the co-author of a 2011 research paper on special purpose acquisition companies or SPACs, is currently conducting ongoing, active research into SPACs and in May testified before U.S. Congress at a hearing entitled “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections.” 

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Richard W. Painter, the S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.  Professor Painter is the author of "Board Diversity: A Response to Professor Fried" in which he details why he supports Nasdaq's proposal to the SEC to approve a new rule requiring most Nasdaq-listed companies to have at least one director self-identifying as a woman and another self-identifying as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ+, or explain why not in their securities disclosure filings. 

(Originally released in January of 2020) In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews the newly-appointed SEC Director of Corporate Finance Renee Jones (then Associate Dean of Academics and Professor at Boston College Law School) on her September 11, 2019 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 interviews Yaron Nili, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Nili is the co-author of a research paper forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review entitled “The Giant Shadow of Corporate Gadflies.”

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 April 30 to June 2.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews  C. Gregory Rogers the Founder of Era-Tos-Thenes. Rogers is the author of a recent paper published by Era-Tos-Thenes entitled “Carbon Quotient: How to Create accountability for net zero across the investment value chain."

Professor Nitzan Shilon discusses how stock buybacks affect executive compensation, highlighting issues with shareholder value and transparency. The podcast explores the relationship between buybacks and executive bonuses, the negative impacts of short-term focus and debt, and proposes corporate governance solutions for better disclosure and oversight.

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 March 31 - April 30.