CGRI research spans these topics: general principles, board of directors, leadership and succession planning, compensation, audit and risk, shareholders, and proxy advisory.
This Data Spotlight provides data and statistics on the level and structure of CEO compensation in the United States. This data supplements in the…
In Closer Look, we highlight significant “holes” in our knowledge of corporate governance. These are central issues where insufficient or…
In this Closer Look, we consider current trends in shareholder activism and their potential impact. We examine the introduction of universal…
A roadmap to understanding the fundamental concepts of corporate governance based on theory, empirical research, and data. This guide will take an…
A roadmap to understanding the fundamental concepts of corporate governance based on theory, empirical research, and data. This guide takes an in-…
A roadmap to understanding the fundamental concepts of corporate governance based on theory, empirical research, and data. This guide takes an in-…
A roadmap to understanding the fundamental concepts of corporate governance based on theory, empirical research, and data. This guide will take an…
A roadmap to understanding the fundamental concepts of corporate governance based on theory, empirical research, and data. This guide takes an in-…
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities including:
…This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings, including:
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In this Closer Look, we examine individual investor perception of ESG to gauge their concern for environmental and social issues, their view of…
In summer 2022, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Hoover Institution Working Group on Corporate Governance at Stanford University, and…
Between 2010 and 2017, Chinese investors used an investor interactive platform (IIP) to ask public companies around 2.5 million…
ESG ratings firms provide information to investors, analysts, and corporate managers about the relation between corporations and non-investor…
In this Closer Look, we use the example of VICI Properties — a publicly traded REIT that emerged from the bankruptcy of Caesar’s Entertainment —…
This Quick Guide provides data and statistics on the attributes of the CEOs and CEO succession events at publicly traded companies in the United…
We explain when and how staggered difference-in-differences regression estimators, commonly applied to assess the impact of policy changes, are…
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on outside (non-executive) directors and directors who are independent…
This Research Spotlight provides a summary of the academic literature on whether companies with an independent chairman of the board exhibit…
We examine CEO turnover and succession planning using a unique and highly comprehensive data set from the company exechange. Exechange applies a…