About this Database

GMI Ratings, formerly known as Corporate Library, offers annual historical data captures for each proxy year beginning in 2001. Information includes:

  • Corporate Board Structure and Independence
  • Director Positions and Committee Assignments
  • Executive Compensation
  • Director Compensation
  • Audit Fees
  • Corporate Ownership
  • Takeover Defenses

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Access

Access method

WRDS

Access notes

Research Assistants, PhD, Staff and Faculty also have access via PC SAS Connect WRDS Cloud, Matlab, Stata, R, and Python.

WRDS accounts are not provided during the summer to MBA students. Authorized users have summer access at Baker Library in the Financial Database Room. 

Harvard University faculty, graduate students (including MBA students) and researchers can request a WRDS account.

HU undergraduates may use WRDS in the Financial Databases Room.


Use of WRDS is limited to academic and non-commercial research purposes. The right to access licensed databases and copyrighted material on the WRDS system is only for internal or academic research. You may not use data downloaded from WRDS for any commercial endeavor. In addition, you may not reveal, disclose, transfer, or share username and password information with anyone. Additional restrictions apply. See WRDS Terms of Use.


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