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27 May 2024, 4:10 pm
After making his bones defending entrenched corporate managers from the discipline of the market for corporate control, Martin Lipton lately has been defending entrenched corporate managers from the discipline of the stock market. [read post]
7 May 2024, 9:01 pm
Since the 1970s, when the work of Milton Friedman, Michael Jensen, and Frank Easterbrook took hold in business schools, activists and raiders in high-profile proxy fights and hostile takeovers on Wall Street have wrapped their arms around the shareholder-primacy narrative to advance their own short-termist objectives. [read post]
7 May 2024, 6:32 am
For decades, advocates of “shareholder primacy” as the North Star of corporate governance have steered our leading corporations and our Nation’s economic engine perilously off-course. [read post]
7 May 2024, 6:32 am
For decades, advocates of “shareholder primacy” as the North Star of corporate governance have steered our leading corporations and our Nation’s economic engine perilously off-course. [read post]
18 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
Every day, we see individuals, corporations, analysts, and others touting these developments. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm
Even though business laws, including corporate and securities laws, have been heavily influenced in the last several decades by what can fairly be called an ideology of profit maximization, much of the law has in practice withstood efforts to reduce business law’s prescriptions to this single objective.[2] In the American Law Institute’s Principles of Corporate Governance, for example, the objective of business corporations to act “with a view to… [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 7:28 pm
That does not suggest laissez faire in the style of Milton Friedman--it does suggest that public policy creates guard rails and expectations but does not drive micro-decision making. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 6:08 pm
Its focus on the corporate governance side is on the development of legal structures for corporate philanthropy, coupled with an increasing emphasis on corporate compliance through systems of oversight and administration. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 1:02 am
On 9 February 2024, there was a hearing in The Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs v Dr Robert Milton & Amy Louise Spencer KB-2023-004745. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 4:40 pm
His lawyers will argue Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko fell into legal error by finding the former corporal was complicit in the murder of four unarmed Afghan prisoners. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 6:31 am
This myopic, jurisdictionally bound, conception of corporate purpose forms the logical foundation for Milton Friedman’s (in)famous 1970s New York Times article “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 6:31 am
This myopic, jurisdictionally bound, conception of corporate purpose forms the logical foundation for Milton Friedman’s (in)famous 1970s New York Times article “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”. [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 4:39 am
I recently discussed how the lessons of Adam Smith are still being learned by major corporations like Disney on the 300th anniversary of his birth. [read post]
10 Oct 2023, 9:01 pm
[4] Economic activist investors are distinct from other activists, who seek to redirect companies’ resources in service of non-corporate-value-maximizin [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 8:05 am
This approach to responsible business conduct allowed extremists like Milton Friedman to argue with some legitimacy that the only social responsibility for corporations was to make money for shareholders. [read post]
17 Aug 2023, 9:05 pm
Milton, two different CEOs were convicted of criminal securities fraud based on tweets, making it clear that courts are treating these marketplace statements just like formal corporate statements. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 3:18 pm
The applicant was transported by ambulance to Halton Health Care hospital in Milton, where she was diagnosed with five fractures, including her collarbone, pelvis and various parts of her shoulder blade, as well as a collapsed lung. [read post]
6 Aug 2023, 5:25 pm
Those who read the editorial pages of the very same paper see how Milton Friedman’s free market conservativism has been inundated with modern day populism. [read post]
20 Jul 2023, 9:01 pm
Attacks by activists seeking short-term stock appreciation have surged to new record levels, bolstered by support from academics who continue to espouse the shareholder primacy arguments of Milton Friedman. [read post]
19 Jul 2023, 6:31 am
Attacks by activists seeking short-term stock appreciation have surged to new record levels, bolstered by support from academics who continue to espouse the shareholder primacy arguments of Milton Friedman. [read post]
