Professor Jesse Fried
Professor of Law
Office: | Griswold 506 |
Assistant: | Carole Mason 617/384-9814 |
Phone: | (617)384-8158 |
Email: | jfried@law.harvard.edu |
Biographical Statement
Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, he was a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) at the University of California Berkeley. He holds an A.B. and A.M in Economics from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Fried has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School and Tel Aviv University. Fried's main areas of research are executive compensation, corporate governance, corporate bankruptcy and venture capital.
Appointments
- John. M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Business, 1995-1997
- Professor of Law, 2009
Education
- Harvard College A.B. 1986
- Harvard University A.M. 1989
- Harvard Law School J.D. 1992
Research Interests
- Corporate bankruptcy
- Corporate governance
- Executive compensation
- Insider trading
- Securities regulation
- Venture capital contracting
Representative Publications
- Fried, Jesse M. & Brian Broughman. "Renegotiation of Cash Flow Rights in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms," 95 Journal of Financial Economics 384 (2010).
- Fried, Jesse M. "Firms Gone Dark," 76 University of Chicago Law Review 135 (2009).
- Fried, Jesse M. "Option Backdating and Its Implications," 65 Washington & Lee Law Review 853 (2008).
- Bebchuk, Lucian A. & Jesse M. Fried. Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (Harvard University Press 2004).