Corporate Governance

Catalog description

The goal of this course is to introduce you to the area of Corporate Governance. Corporate Governance deals with the way corporations are governed, the way decisions are made in corporations and the interaction between the corporation and its stakeholders. Among the topics covered: the role, responsibilities, and strategies of the board of directors, shareholder activism and the mechanisms used to protect shareholders, the takeover market, the tender offer mechanism, and anti-takeover measures, the design of compensation contracts, and differences among the above mechanisms across different countries. I put a strong emphasis in this class on current events and real life examples.