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'Stakeholder' Capitalism Seems Mostly for Show, Wall Street Journal, 8/2020
Alibaba's Governance Leaves Investors at a Disadvantage, New York Times, 9/2014
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The Myth of Hedge Funds as 'Myopic Activists,' Wall Street Journal, 8/2013
Bebchuk, Cohen, and Wang win academic award, 7/2013
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Don't Make Poison Pills More Deadly, New York Times DealBook, 2/2013
SEC proposes corporate political spending rules urged by Bebchuk, committee, 1/2013
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Voluntary Disclosure on Corporate Political Spending Is Not Enough, New York Times DealBook, 12/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Letting Shareholders Know How Their Money Is Spent, New York Times DealBook, 11/2012
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance, 11/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: For Whom Golden Parachutes Shine, New York Times DealBook, 10/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Investing in Good Governance, New York Times DealBook, 9/2012
Eight HLS faculty ranked in "High-Impact List" for corporate governance field, 8/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Don’t Discourage Outside Shareholders, New York Times DealBook, 8/2012
Bebchuk named among most influential people in finance, 7/2012
Rulemaking petition on political spending attracts massive support from over 250,000 comments filed with the SEC, 6/2012
Harvard Law School Corporate Faculty Contribute Five Most-Cited Law Review Articles, 6/2012
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Giving Shareholders a Voice, New York Times DealBook, 4/2012
HLS Shareholder Rights Clinic contributes to governance reforms in S&P 500 companies, 4/2012
On World Bank blog, Bebchuk debates executive compensation, 2/2012
Bebchuk testifies before Senate Banking committee, 2/2012
Bebchuk, Shavell, Kaplow, Fried, and Cohen Make SSRN’s Top Ten List, 1/2012
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance, 10/2011
Bebchuk Receives ICGN Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance, 9/2011
Committee co-chaired by Bebchuk submits SEC rulemaking petition on political spending, 8/2011
Bebchuk Named President-Elect of the Western Economic Association International, 7/2011
SEC Comment on Possible Changes in Section 13(d) Rules, 7/2011
Harvard faculty and fellows contribute most of the ‘Top Ten Corporate and Securities Law Articles’ of 2010, 6/2011
Lucian Bebchuk Elected to Norilsk Nickel’s Board of Directors, 3/2011
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: An Antidote for the Corporate Poison Pill, Wall Street Journal, 2/2011
Harvard Corporate Faculty Lead 2010 SSRN Rankings, 1/2011
Bebchuk named 2010 'Governance Star', 12/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Pricing Corporate Governance, Project Syndicate, 11/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Politics and Corporate Money, Project Syndicate, 9/2010
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance, 9/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried: Tackling the Managerial Power Problem: The Key to Improving Executive Compensation, Pathways Magazine, 8/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Why Bankers' Pay is the Government's Business, Economist.com, 8/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: How to Pay a Banker, Project Syndicate, 7/2010
Corporate Governance Network debuts new E-Journal, 7/2010
Faculty Scholarship: Bebchuk, Cohen and Spamman on Executive Compensation at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, 7/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Don't Gut Proxy Access, New York Times DealBook, 6/2010
Bebchuk to Become President of the Western Economic Association International, 6/2010
Lucian Bebchuk's Keynote Speech at the ICGN Annual Meeting, 6/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Rating the Raters, Project Syndicate, 5/2010
The Most Influential People in Corporate Governance, 3/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann: Paid to Fail, Project Syndicate, 3/2010
Harvard Corporate Faculty Lead 2009 SSRN Rankings, 3/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Corporate Political Speech is Bad for Shareholders, Project Syndicate, 2/2010
NYU Journal of Law and Business hosts symposium on legal aftershocks of the global financial crisis, 2/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk, Martijn Cremers and Urs Peyer: The CEO Pay Slice, Project Syndicate, 1/2010
Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services Committee, 1/2010
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Who Should Be Bailed Out?, Project Syndicate, 12/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann: Bankers had Cashed in Before the Music Stopped, Financial Times, 12/2009
Professor Bebchuk Intervenes in Israel’s Largest Reorganization, 11/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried: Taming the Stock Option Game, Project Syndicate, 11/2009
Corporate governance experts participate in Proxy Access Roundtable at HLS, 11/2009
Professor Bebchuk Intervenes in Israel’s Largest Reorganization,11/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Should Bondholders be Bailed Out?, Project Syndicate, 10/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Holger Spamann: Reducing Incentives for Risk-Taking, New York Times: Dealbook, 10/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Unblocking Corporate Governance Reform, Project Syndicate, 9/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Why Financial Pay Shouldn't be Left to the Market, Project Syndicate, 8/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Bonus Guarantees Can Fuel Risky Moves, Wall Street Journal Online, 8/2009
Bebchuk leads charge urging SEC to give corporate shareholders more rights, 8/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Regulate Financial Pay to Reduce Risk-Taking, Financial Times, 8/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen: Back to the Good Times on Wall Street, Wall Street Journal Online, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Let the Good Times Roll Again?, Project Syndicate, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Paying for Performance at Goldman, Wall Street Journal Online, 7/2009
Works by HLS faculty most downloaded on SSRN, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The Fall of the Toxic-Assets Plan, Wall Street Journal Online, 7/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Toxic Tests, Project Syndicate, 6/2009
Bebchuk and Fried participate in Harvard Business Review debate on executive compensation, 6/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried: Equity Compensation for Long-Term Results, Wall Street Journal Online, 6/2009
Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services committee, 6/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The False Promise of Global Governance Standards, Project Syndicate, 5/2009
Op-Ed: by Lucian Bebchuk: The SEC's Proxy Access Proposal, Wall Street Journal Online, 5/2009
Op-Ed: by Lucian Bebchuk: Near-Sighted Stress Tests, Forbes.com, 5/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The PPIP: keep banks out, FinancialTimes.com, 5/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: How to Avoid Overpaying for Toxic Assets, Wall Street Journal Online, 4/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: A Fix for Geithner's Plan, Washington Post, 3/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Jump-Starting The Market For Troubled Assets, Forbes, 3/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Congress Gets Punitive on Executive Pay, Wall Street Journal, 2/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Pay Cap Debate, Wall Street Journal, 2/2009
Lawdragon Names Bebchuk Among “500 Leading Lawyers in America”, 1/2009
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Itay Goldstein: How to Give Banks Confidence to Lend to Businesses, Wall Street Journal, 12/2008
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The Rescue Plan: Direct Capital Investments Would be Better for Both Markets and Taxpayers, Financial Times, 10/2008
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: How to Pay Less For Distressed Financial Assets, Wall Street Journal, 9/2008
HLS well represented among the most influential corporate governance players, 9/2008
CVS Caremark, Safeway, and JCPenney adopt Bebchuk's by-Law proposal, 4/2008
Bebchuk, Roe, and Subramanian honored for top corporate law articles, 3/2008
Blog and program members included in the "500 Leading Lawyers" list, 2/2008
HLS professors among country's 'Leading Lawyers', 1/2008
Bebchuk ranks first among law professors on SSRN, 1/2008
Bebchuk named to list of 100 most influential players in corporate governance, 9/2007
The Daily Deal on Lucian Bebchuk, 6/2007
The VLR Symposium on The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise, 6/2007
Bebchuk elected president of the American Law and Economics Association, 5/2007
Bebchuk and Kraakman honored for corporate law articles, 5/2007
Bebchuk’s and Kraakman’s Articles Make the Top Ten List, 5/2007
Fortune Magazine on Lucian Bebchuk, 4/2007
Lucian Bebchuk is trying to change the way corporations are governed, 3/2007
Bebchuk testifies before House Financial Services Committee, 3/2007
Bebchuk’s proposal forces change in Home Depot Bylaws, 1/2007
Professor Lucian Bebchuk on Apple Computer and Corporate Governance, 1/2007
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Inside Jobs, Wall Street Journal, 1/2007
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Urs Peyer: 'Lucky' Grants Point to a Deeper Governance Malaise, Financial Times, 12/2006
Research Finds Directors' Options were Favorably Timed, 12/2006
Professor Bebchuk Investigates Option Backdating, 11/2006
Bebchuk Wins Significant Support at CA Shareholder Meeting, 9/2006
Bebchuk Testifies on Executive Compensation Before Senate Committee on Finance, 9/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Rakesh Khurana: The Compensation Game, Harvard Business Review, 8/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Investors Must Have Power, Not Just Figures on Pay, Financial Times, 7/2006
Bebchuk Elected to Lead American Law and Economics Association, 6/2006
Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse Fried, and Robert Jackson Jr. file comments on the SEC's proposed rules concerning the disclosure of executive compensation, 4/2006
Article in SEC Today about the above Filed Comments, 4/2006
Four articles by HLS researchers selected among the top 10 Corporate and Securities articles in 2005, 4/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The SEC: Beyond Disclosure, Forbes, 1/2006
How Much Does the Boss Make?, 1/2006
Lucian Bebchuk ranked as one of the 100 most influential people in finance, 1/2006
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: The Disney Verdict and the Protection of Investors, Financial Times, 8/2005
HLS corporate faculty file an amicus brief in the case of AFSCME vs. AIG, 8/2005
Four articles by HLS researchers selected among the top 10 Corporate and Securities articles in 2004, 5/2005
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: What Corporate-Governance Reforms are Still Necessary?, Optimize Magazine, 4/2005
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: What's $13 Million Among Friends?, New York Times, 1/2005
"Pay without Performance" Book is the Focus of Columbia Law School Conference, 10/2004
Two articles by HLS researchers selected among the top 10 Corporate and Securities articles in 2003, 5/2004
Lucian Bebchuk awarded Guggenheim fellowship to study the allocation of power between management and shareholders, 5/2004
Lucian Bebchuk speaks at SEC hearing in favor of shareholder access to the ballot, 3/2004
Lucian Bebchuk submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to proxy rules, 12/2003
Law School-Harvard Business School ad hoc faculty group on corporate governance submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to the proxyrules, 12/2003
Harvard Magazine Forum: "Making Directors Accountable," by Lucian Bebchuk, 11-12/2003
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: "Why Shareholders Must Have More Power", Financial Times, 10/21/2003
HLS Faculty Win Five out of the Top Ten Best Papers in Corporate Law, 7/08/2003
Lucian Bebchuk submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to the proxy rules, 6/2003
Harvard Law School-Harvard Business School ad hoc faculty group on corporate governance submits to the SEC a comment on the proposed changes to the proxy rules, 6/2003
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen: Not-So-Fierce Rivalry, The Daily Deal, 1/2003
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk: Settling For Less, New York Times, 12/2002
Op-Ed by Lucian Bebchuk and Oliver Hart: A Threat to Dual Class Shares, Financial Times, 5/2002

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