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29 Feb 2008, 10:20 am
February 28–colleague:   Fancy way of saying “someone I work with”; usually implies a person sharing the same rung of the corporate ladder with the person employing the term, because otherwise the speaker would just say “my supervisor” or “my assistant”; a little too formal for the typical 9-to-5er to pull off; therefore, essentially, only erudite professors and Nobel Prize winners should use this… [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:11 pm by Steve Bainbridge
With the economic illiterates occupying Wall Street, it's time to revisit the defense of corporations that I offered in my essay Reflections on Twenty Years in Law Teaching: I tell my students about Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who wrote that: “The limited liability corporation is the greatest single discovery of modern times. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 7:01 am
* President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 7:42 am by Thomson Reuters
The Trust Women conference is an influential gathering that brings together global corporations, lawyers and pioneers in the field of women's rights. [read post]
In the recent annual meeting of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI), held in Seattle this past weekend, Professor Lucian Bebchuk delivered a presidential address entitled “The Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 9:28 am
Edited by Aaron Edlin and Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics, together with Jonathan Carmel, J. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 5:11 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
In that situation, the big multinational corporation identified C60, and published thereon, one year before the academics did. [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 1:46 am
On 29 April 2010, European Advocate General Kokott gave her opinion in the case of Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd & Akcros Chemicals Ltd v European Commission. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 2:00 am by Stephanie Figueroa
Today we continue our weekly installment highlighting the best of the corporate and securities blogosphere from this past week. [read post]
11 Oct 2009, 4:10 am
Why does Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 4:40 pm by andré douglas pond cummings
  To follow up here, nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman weighed in this week on the privatization of prisons (amongst other areas, including education) in the New York Times by describing the role of lobbyists in influencing and creating legislative policies that impact American lives. [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 6:18 am
In recent work, Nobel laureate Oliver Hart discusses whether, and should, “the board of directors of a public company [has] a legal duty to maximize shareholder value? [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 8:36 pm by Joel Jacobsen
John Cassidy's "Letter from Chicago" in the January 11 New Yorker makes a good case for the proposition that the harm done by the pseudo-Nobel for Economics has outweighed all the good done by the prizes actually established by Alfred Nobel's will. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 6:10 am
 Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Agency Problems of Institutional Investors by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Scott Hirst (discussed on the Forum here) and Social Responsibility Resolutions by Scott Hirst (discussed on the Forum here). 2016 Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart and Professor Luigi Zingales have recently published an article justifying companies’ pursuit of social objectives at the expense of profits… [read post]
21 Apr 2021, 6:21 am
Fifty years ago last month, economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman published his famous essay in The New York Times Magazine arguing that the social responsibility of businesses is to increase their own profits. [read post]
2 Oct 2021, 1:45 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Deming said: It is worthy of note that the 80 American Nobel prize winners all had tenure, security. [read post]
The corporate governance and law and finance research of Lucian Bebchuk was recently recognized by the Western Economic Association International (WEAI). [read post]