The Voice of Corporate Governance

On this episode, Dan Kapinos and Pam Greene of Aon discuss stock option repricing and exchange programs and their expectations given the Covid-19 pandemic.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Colleen Honigsberg, Associate Professor of Law at Stanford. Professor Honigsberg is the author of a recent article published in the Vanderbilt Law Review entitled “The Case for Individual Audit Partner Accountability.” Professor Honigsberg’s article argues that the persistence of accounting failures around the world indicates the need for improving audit quality. The solution: Auditor Scorecards.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of April 2 - May 5 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

Based in the UK, ShareAction recently released its 2019 Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI) signed by 137 investors with over $15 trillion in assets under management. Broadly, these investors are calling for transparency from companies on how they mange workers. In this episode, we sit down with Aine Clarke, Investment Engagement Manager at WDI, to discuss the survey's findings and the future of workforce governance. 

Professor Susanna Gallani discusses her research on ISS recommendations and compensation practices, revealing a lack of clear association between ISS recommendations and return on assets. The podcast also explores how the timing of a company's fiscal year end influences the quality of ISS assessments, discrepancies between shareholder evaluations and ISS recommendations, and the potential impact of SEC rules on proxy advisors and research quality.

In this episode, CII Research Analyst Lucy Nussbaum discusses a set of standards on human capital management reporting published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) with Jeff Higgins who was the lead US representative on the ISO task force that created these standards and is the CEO of the Human Capital Management Institute.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Laurence B. Siegel about his new book, "Fewer, Richer, and Greener."The daily news is often filled with doomsday stories claiming our world is experiencing stagnant economic growth, environmental deterioration, dwindling natural resources, and an unsustainable increase in world population. Mr. Siegel’s new book debunks those notions and explains why we will have fewer people than we were expecting, we will become richer, and perhaps most surprisingly, that the planet will become greener. 

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney discusses some of CII's advocacy efforts and regulatory/legislative activities for the period of March 2 - April 1 relevant to the Administration’s efforts to reform the U.S. financial regulatory system.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Andrew Franklin, president of UTR LLC, a public and private equity investor focusing on small-cap companies in consumer discretionary and durable goods manufacturers. They discuss the application and risks of Delaware Corporation Law sections 204 & 205 on defective corporate acts.

In this episode, Professor Wang from Harvard Business School discusses his recent paper demonstrating that the market is inefficiently assessing corporate earnings because too few investors and other market participants read and consider information contained in footnotes to financial reports.