The Voice of Corporate Governance

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Heidi Welsh, Executive Director of the Sustainable Investments Institute and Co-author of proxy preview, on the recent 2021 proxy season.

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Professor Andrew A. King from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University. Professor King is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled "Materiality and Corporate Sustainability: A Model Uncertainty Analysis."

In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Shiva Rajgopal, the Kester and Byrnes Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University. Professor Rajgopal is the co-author of a recent research paper entitled "Returns to Seeking Political Influence: Early Evidence from the COVID-19 Stimulus."Professor Rajgopal's also wrote a recent article for Forbes  entitled "It Should Be Mandatory To Disclose Political Influence Seeking And Payoffs From The State—There’s An Evidence Based Reason Why."

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.