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 February 2 - March 3.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Robert Conway, author of "The Truth About Public Accounting." 

Yumi Narita, Executive Director of Corporate Governance at the Office of New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, discusses shareholder proposals urging public access to same diversity data that companies provide confidentially to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 

In this episode, CII general counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Michael Klausner, the Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Sanford Law School.  Professor Klausner discusses Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), including: What is a SPAC?; why are they so popular?; and what regulatory reforms of SPAC’s may be appropriate? Professor Klausner is the co-author of a recent research paper: “A Sober Look at SPACs.” 

In this episode, CII general counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Daniel Taylor, Associate Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Taylor discusses Rule 10b5-1 trading plans: What are they; how they may be abused by corporate executives; and what reforms should investors be advocating for. Professor Taylor is a co-author of a recent paper: Gaming the System: Three 'Red Flags' of Potential 10b5-1 Abuse.

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 January 6 - February 2.

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 December 3 - January 6

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 October 30 to December 2.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Shiva Rajgopol, the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. Professor Rajgopol is the co-author of a recent research paper with Aneesh Raghunandan of the London School of Economics  entitled “Do the Socially Responsible Walk the Talk?”The paper examines data relating to signatory companies to the August 2019 Business Roundtable statement on a purpose of a corporation and how it relates to those companies whose stocks are held in large ESG funds.

In this episode, CII general counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Preeti Choudhary, Associate Professor of Accounting at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. Professor Choudhary addresses the question of why corporate management waivers of financial statement errors identified by their external auditors are a cost to investors.