The Anti – ESG Ecosystem

The Anti – ESG Ecosystem

The Anti – ESG Ecosystem Few contemporary concepts in American political economy have generated as much sustained conflict, confusion, and institutional friction as ESG. Over little more than a decade, what began as a loose set of voluntary disclosure practices...
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Stories I Won’t Remember Writing

Stories I Won’t Remember Writing Stories I Won’t Remember Writing is one of those rare collections that leaves the reader wanting time to absorb each story before the next. And there is much to absorb in each of these tightly written tales, where not a...
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Rule 14a-8 in Practice

Rule 14a-8 in Practice Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 governs the circumstances under which a shareholder may include a proposal in a public company’s proxy statement for a vote of fellow shareholders.1 For decades the rule has served as...
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SEC Comment Letter on Semiannual Reporting

SEC Comment Letter on Semiannual Reporting I write in my individual academic capacity to comment on the Commission’s proposal to permit eligible reporting companies to file a semiannual report on a new Form 10-S in lieu of three quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. I...
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The Meridian Institute Grows Up

The Meridian Institute Grows Up The London campus opened in September 2031 with 47 students and a space in Clerkenwell that had been a design studio and before that a printworks and before that something nobody could quite document, which Priya had decided was either...
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The Birth of the Meridian Institute

The Birth of the Meridian Institute January 14, 2029. Delaware has just registered the Meridian Institute as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and it exists now, legally, as a thing in the world. PBC. Not a nonprofit — she’d had that conversation 3 times and...
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The Carver School of Business

The Carver School of Business Dean Sandra Okafor had appointed the working group in October. It had taken four months to schedule the first meeting because Professor Delacroix in Finance had a teaching conflict on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Professor Yuen in Strategy was...