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How Humans and AI Can Complement Each Other at Work and in the Financial Sector

By Isabella Loaiza and Roberto Rigobon June 20, 2025 by renholding

As AI systems evolve, there’s been a surge of attention and anxiety around how they are reshaping the workforce. The conversation often centers on which jobs are at risk of automation and what machines are capable of. While these are …

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How Accurate Are Corporate AI Disclosures?

By John M. Barrios, John L. Campbell, Ryan G. Johnson and Christine Liu March 3, 2025 by renholding

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a general purpose technology (GPT) with the potential to transform industries. As a result, the potential benefits of AI give firms strong reasons to adopt it – but also provides opportunities to exaggerate their …

The Implications of Allowing Companies to Police Themselves

By Kentaro Asai and Tatsuhiko Inatani January 21, 2025 by renholding

A notable trend has emerged: outsourcing non-monetary sanctions to firms that enforce penalties internally and more efficiently for employee misconduct. In a new paper, we examine this trend, focusing on the deterrence and policy implications of transforming corporations into self-policing …

Wachtell Lipton Discusses FTC’s Sweeping Ban on Employment Non-Competes

By Nelson O. Fitts, Michael J. Schobel and Emily E. Samra April 25, 2024 by renholding

In a public meeting Tuesday, a divided Federal Trade Commission voted along party lines to issue a final rule prohibiting non-compete clauses for nearly all U.S. workers.  The FTC previously published the proposed ban in January 2023, drawing thousands of …

Ropes & Gray Discusses Supreme Court Ruling on SOX Retaliation Claims

By Greg Demers, Doug Brayley, Brendan Kearney and Jack Shaffery March 5, 2024 by renholding

Plaintiffs bringing retaliation claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act do not have to prove their employers’ “retaliatory intent,” only that their whistleblowing activity contributed to their termination, according to a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a unanimous opinion …

Do Employees Value ESG Initiatives?

By Ming D. Leung, Ben Lourie, Chuchu Liang and Chenqi Zhu August 30, 2023 by renholding

While environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives undeniably shape corporate reputations and stakeholder perspectives, a crucial question arises: Does the modern workforce truly value these efforts? At one end of the spectrum, critics argue that employees might prioritize job security, …

Reimagining Board Committees to Accommodate Worker Voice

By Douglas K. Chia July 5, 2022 by renholding

Employees at U.S. public corporations have increasingly demanded that their concerns be heard at the very senior levels of management.  If current trends continue, boards of directors could also be challenged to accommodate “worker voice” more formally.  Rather than being …

The “S” in ESG: Human Capital Management

By George S. Georgiev March 16, 2022 by renholding

Over the past decade, ESG has morphed from a fringe concern into one of the most prominent topics in corporate governance – and a flourishing research area as well.[1] Nevertheless, some notable blindspots remain. Based on a recent survey, …

How Corporate Governance Codetermination Works in Practice

By Grant Hayden and Matthew Bodie June 3, 2021 by renholding

Codetermination is a system of shared corporate governance between workers and shareholders. While such a system has long been a staple of the European business world, it has been generally ignored by U.S. corporate governance scholars. When it has made …

Common Ownership and the Decline of the American Worker

By Zohar Goshen and Doron Levit June 1, 2021 by renholding

American workers are more productive than ever, but they take home the same pay they did 40 years ago.  While firms have enjoyed blockbuster profits—and the U.S. gross domestic product has tripled—most American households have not shared in this increasing …

The Underside of Hedge Fund Activism: Looting the Pension Fund

By John C. Coffee, Jr. April 14, 2021 by renholding

Hedge fund activism is a topic on which most law professors have closed their minds. They learned in student days that activist hedge funds are excellent agents of change that efficiently discipline managements at targeted firms and increase shareholder wealth. …

The Management Case for Inclusionary Corporate Purpose

By J.S. Nelson March 16, 2021 by renholding

The most vital and deeply practical argument for more broadly understanding corporate purpose comes from the management literature and the data on how to motivate people in organizations. Put simply, people in organizations do not work as hard or come …

Stakeholders Will Guide Companies Out of This Crisis – and the Next One, Too

By Stavros Gadinis and Amelia Miazad June 8, 2020 by renholding

Companies will not survive Covid-19 unless they communicate with their stakeholders. As the world around them transforms, corporate leaders must welcome input from those on the front lines of corporate activity – primarily employees and consumers, but also local communities, …

Financial Misconduct and Changes in Employee Satisfaction

By Yuqing Zhou and Christos Makridis November 22, 2019 by renholding

In a recent paper, we use new and proprietary micro-data from company-ratings site Glassdoor for the period between 2008 and 2016 to investigate changes in employees’ perception of firms and managers during  periods of financial misconduct and after the public …

What Comes After Shareholder Primacy? Employee Empowerment

By Grant Hayden and Matthew Bodie September 16, 2019 by renholding

In corporate law, the U.S. academic elite stubbornly clings to shareholder primacy as the foundational principle of the field. The concept is simple, even elegant: Shareholders should be given ultimate control of the corporation because they are entitled to the …

How Rank and File Equity Compensation Affects Earnings Management

By Kip Holderness, Adrienna A. Huffman and Melissa F. Lewis-Western August 23, 2019 by renholding

Equity compensation is a beneficial tool when it motivates employees to engage more intensely in performance-enhancing activities. One negative consequence of equity compensation, however, is that it provides incentives to manage earnings (i.e., to strategically present financial reports or structure …

How Can Humans Work With Artificial Intelligence?

By Andreas Fügener, Jörn Grahl, Alok Gupta and Wolfgang Ketter April 26, 2019 by renholding

How will artificial intelligence (AI) influence the workplace of the future and thereby the human working condition? The focus of this discussion has been on the rather tautological conclusion that many current jobs will eventually be performed by machines. In …

The Effect of Gig Workers on Stock Prices

By Kelly Carter January 11, 2019 by renholding

Gig workers, who are hired to complete a project, or “gig,” constitute a significant portion of the workforce.  The McKinsey Global Institute states that gig workers make up between 20 and 30 percent of all workers in the U.S. and …

How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths

By Simon Jäger June 14, 2017 by renholding

The fluidity of labor markets depends on the ease with which one side of the market can fulfill the needs of the other: whether workers can find employment that suits their skills and firms can find adequate substitutes for workers …

How Tax Policy Favors Robots over Workers and What to Do About it

By Ryan Abbott and Bret Bogenschneider June 6, 2017 by renholding

There is a longstanding and growing public debate about the costs and benefits of automation. Earlier this year, Bill Gates argued that robots who take human jobs should pay taxes. Mark Zuckerberg recently warned the graduating class at Harvard University …

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