Corporate Governance

Academic center devoted to corporate governance providing freely accessible research and news. Serves as a forum for all stakeholders interested in corporate governance.

The Conference Board's Governance Center provides research and news on governance processes, the general market environment and facilitation of capital formation. Research from the Governance Center is available from the "Services" tab on the Conference Board home page.

Provides studies, white papers and books covering a wide range of board-related topics. The website provides some free content from their magazine, Directorship. Full-text of Directorship is available via EBSCO.

Devoted to bridging the gap between academia and practice in the area of corporate governance, the website provides free access to working papers, news, blog posts, information on conferences, relevant courses at Harvard.

Network within the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) that provides access to working papers and conference proceedings related to corporate governance.

Global membership organization for women corporate directors. Members have access to a database that includes white papers, interviews and speeches, publications, surveys and open blogs on corporate governance.

Provides resources pertaining to current boardroom issues and governance trends. For example, the 2018 report Common Threads Across Boardroom Board is freely available for downloading.

Find insight, advice and analysis on board related matters. 

Find freely available reports and studies on key issues for consideration for the board and audit committee, such as PwC's Annual Corporate Directors Survey. 

Find articles and research published by McKinsey on corporate governance by searching Insights and Publications on their website. For example, results from The McKinsey global survey on governance is available at no cost by registering.

Provides freely available research, analysis and trends on board leadership under the "Insights" tab. 

Annual study published by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Quarterly journal dedicated to the topics of leadership and corporate governance.

The report details the 1,034 public company responses from NACD annual questionnaire with additional data compiled by Equilar, a provider of executive compensation data. Some findings include: boards are unprepared to respond to activist investors, M&A is a leading board priority, director turnover has increased, the rise in gender diversity is slow but steady and directors’ comprehension of cyber risk is low.

Examines management and board member duties and liabilities under federal securities laws, including important areas of state law. Baker Library holds the latest edition only. Older issues are available via Harvard Depository for checkout.

Contains articles written by directors of major corporations, chairmen, chief executives, legal and financial advisors.

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Each edition examines a different aspect of Boards. The 2014 study, for example, examines the performance of companies that have changed their governance structure. Note: More recent editions of the study and other publications on boards and governance are available from the Korn Ferry Institute.

Sources and instructions for finding institutional holdings from Thomson Reuters in WRDS.

Sources and instructions for finding out who owns a particular stock, currently or historically.

Sources and instructions for finding out which companies have instituted takeover defenses.

Instructions on how to identify companies with multiple classes of stock using Bloomberg or Capital IQ.

Instructions for putting together a list of executives or company board members.

A list of resources that provide background information on social responsibility issues and companies or rate or rank their social responsibility.

Information on where to get copies of companies' social responsibility reports in Refinitiv Workspace.

Sources and instructions for identifying resources that provide information on compensation.