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Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Ronen Gal-Or and Udi Hoitash, both of the Department of Accounting at Northeastern University, and Rani Hoitash of the Department of Accountancy at Bentley University. [read post]
Now, there's a paper from Mira Ganor, Why Do Dual-Class Stock Companies Have Staggered Boards? [read post]
13 Dec 2017, 6:25 am
Wang (Harvard Business School), on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Editor's Note: Alma Cohen is Professor of Empirical Practice, and Research Director of the Laboratory for Corporate Governance, at Harvard Law School; Charles C.Y. [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
  Here’s an excerpt from the abstract: We address the heated debate over the staggered board. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 6:29 am
A target’s board can adopt a shareholder rights plan, commonly known as a poison pill, requiring a hostile acquirer to replace a majority of a target’s directors by others who would remove the pill and allow the hostile bid to proceed. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 6:29 am
A target’s board can adopt a shareholder rights plan, commonly known as a poison pill, requiring a hostile acquirer to replace a majority of a target’s directors by others who would remove the pill and allow the hostile bid to proceed. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 5:00 am by J Robert Brown Jr.
  The legal issue was whether a bylaw scheduling the next annual meeting for three months after the prior annual meeting violated the Company's staggered board provision and/or the Delaware statute. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 6:33 am
Wang, Harvard Business School, on Tuesday, June 7, 2016 Editor's Note: Alma Cohen is a Professor of Empirical Practice at Harvard Law School and Charles Wang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 1:48 pm
The Brazilian-Belgian brewer is seeking a judicial declaration that the five Anheuser directors elected when Anheuser's board was staggered are eligible for removal without cause. [read post]
6 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by John Jenkins
  Here’s the abstract: Staggered boards (SBs) are one of the most potent common entrenchment devices, and their value effects are considerably debated. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 4:10 pm by Dean I Weitzman, Esq.
According to PennDOT’s latest traffic accident report, Philadelphia County was the scene of 10,108 crashes in 2020. [read post]
Even more puzzling are the results of the empirical studies of the combined use of staggered boards and dual class capital structures that find a negative correlation between staggered boards and firm value (as measured by Tobin’s Q) similar to the correlation found in firms with single class capital structures. [read post]
7 Jun 2018, 3:06 am by Broc Romanek
Here’s the intro from this blog by Cleary’s Neil Whoriskey (see John’s latest blog for more on the staggered board debate): Beyond the cacophonous din of voices calling for companies to serve a “social purpose,” adopt a variety of governance proposals, achieve quarterly performance targets, and listen to (and indeed even “think like”) activists, there […] [read post]
3 Sep 2017, 11:34 am by Patrick A. Malone
Houston’s medical system was staggered, but it stood up to the pounding inflicted by Hurricane Harvey’s winds and rains. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 5:00 am by J Robert Brown Jr.
As the adoption of DGCL 112 (access bylaws) and the Supreme Court's decision in Airgas concerning the interpretation of staggered board provisions, the state will protect its management friendly franchise. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 3:00 am by Paul Caron
Washington Post, The Staggering Millennial Wealth Deficit, In One Chart: Few things capture the precariousness of life for today’s young adults like a visualization of their wealth. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 5:00 am by J Robert Brown Jr.
  As ISS determined: As with plurality voting, staggered board elections were the norm until fairly recently, maintained by more than 62 percent of S&P 1,500 companies in 2000. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 5:56 pm by Lawrence Solum
In a recent and not-fully-anticipated recent ruling, the Delaware Chancery Court approved the legality of a shareholder-adopted bylaw that shortened the tenure of directors whose replacement was precluded by a staggered board by moving the company’s annual meeting up from August to January. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 7:24 am by Guest Author
  The identification of these ascertainable standards in the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 (“Act”) and there application in the context of actions taken by the Surface Transportation Board (“Board”), the regulator of the freight rail industry under the Act, is the focus of my new article, “The Ascertainable Standards that Guide and Limit the Surface Transportation Board’s Authority over the Railroads. [read post]