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The corporate purpose debate pits shareholder profit maximization (SPM) against stakeholderism: Corporations should only serve the financial interests of their shareholders versus corporations should also serve the interests of other stakeholders. Other stakeholder interests prominently include environmental, social, and governance …
In 2004, the European Union (EU) adopted the Takeover Directive, a framework statute aimed at regulating corporate control transactions and takeover bids targeting EU listed issuers. The Directive, amidst aspirations of fostering a unified market for corporate control and ensuring …
What is the purpose of the corporation in society? Whose interests are corporate managers supposed to advance? How can corporate law and governance best promote social welfare? For the past 50 years, most scholars and business leaders would have answered …
In corporate governance circles, the clash between the different philosophies of shareholder primacy and stakeholderism rages on. In a recent article in the Columbia Law Review, Professor Aneil Kovvali challenged what he calls the “stark choice hypothesis,” which suggests …
Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, policymakers and scholars were focused on the debate over corporate purpose and the fragility of an economic system marked by stagnation and runaway inequality. As a solution, many urged a shift from shareholder primacy (the …
In an article posted yesterday [March 2] on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance blog, Professor Lucian Bebchuk rejects stakeholder governance and, in so doing, attacks the committed positions of influential institutions as varied as the Business Roundtable, …