Corporate Governance
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Walmart, Opioids, Oil Prices (and Coronavirus)
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
Oh my goodness, say it isn't so:...
Virus-Enhanced Market Power: American Small Businesses Are Kept Hostages by Amazon
Amazon announced restrictions on the type of merchandise it will allow sellers and vendors to send into its warehouses because Amazon’s fulfillment services (FBA) has reached...
Elon Musk Wants to Get Paid. He Will Get His 2019 Bonus Thanks to an Accounting Magic
In March 2018, Tesla’s Board of Directors granted Musk a potential bonus of 20,264,042 stock option awards under a plan that uses “adjusted EBITDA” as one...
“This Crisis Is Different: the Coronavirus Is a Social Disease Which We Need to Tackle as a Community”
In an extensive interview, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Chicago Booth professor Raghuram Rajan discusses the pandemic's impact on financial...
Spotify Is Mimicking Google's and Facebook's Strategy: Will It Ruin Podcasting?
Spotify announced the acquisition of The Ringer, one of the biggest networks in podcasting: a step further in its quest to dominate the audio industry...
Spotify Is Mimicking Google’s and Facebook’s Strategy: Will It Ruin Podcasting?
Spotify announced the acquisition of The Ringer, one of the biggest networks in podcasting: a step further in its quest to dominate the audio industry...
US Big Business vs China: How Monopolies Harm National Security
China’s goal is to concentrate power, both within China and over Western industrial commons. The best reaction is not to mimic Chinese autocratic control...
Capitalisn’t in a New Episode on the Gig Economy: A Reading List
Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Doordash have brought the term "gig economy" into our lexicon. But what is the gig economy, really? In the...
The SEC’s Shareholder Voting Reform Runs Counter to Attempts at Democratizing Corporate America
The SEC should drop its proposed changes or modify them so that they are less onerous and less damaging to the rights of shareholders...
Over 60 Leading Finance Economists Ask SEC to Revise the Shareholder Voting Draft Reform
The new regulation that Security and Exchange Commissioners voted in November doesn't fix proxy advisory industry duopoly problems, but it actually makes them worse:...
