The Project on Controlling Shareholders, operated by the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and the Harvard Law School Program on Law and Finance, seeks to foster research, discourse, and education with respect to controlling shareholders and companies controlled by such shareholders.
Research studies on the subject by faculty and fellows associated with the Programs include:
Do Founders Control Start-Up Firms that Go Public?
Jesse M. Fried and Brian J. Broughman
10 Harvard Business Law Review (forthcoming)
Alibaba: A Case Study of Synthetic Control
Jesse Fried and Ehud Kamar
The Perils of Small-Minority Controllers
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Kobi Kastiel
107 Georgetown Law Journal, 1453-1514 (2019)
Powering Preemptive Rights with Presubscription Disclosure
Jesse M. Fried
The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions (Luca Enriques and Tobias H. Tröger (eds.), Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019)
The Perils of Dell’s Low-Voting Stock
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Kobi Kastiel
Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Discussion Paper No. 2018-16 (2018)
Cheap-Stock Tunneling Around Preemptive Rights
Jesse M. Fried and Holgar Spamann
Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)
The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Tunneling
Jesse M. Fried, Ehud Kamar, and Yishay Yafeh
Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance Discussion Paper No. 2018-2 (2018)
The Untenable Case against Perpetual Dual-class Stock
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Kobi Kastiel
101 Virginia Law Review, 585-631 (2017)
[Reprinted in 59 Corporate Practice Commentator, 759-801 (2018)
Independent Directors and Controlling Shareholders
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani
165 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1271-1315 (2017)
Against All Odds: Hedge Fund Activism in Controlled Companies
Kobi Kastiel
16 Columbia Business Law Review, 61-132 (2016)
Executive Compensation in Controlled Companies
Kobi Kastiel
90 Indiana Law Journal, 1131-1176 (2016)
Effect of Delaware Doctrine on Freezeout Structure and Outcomes: Evidence on the Unified Approach
Fernan Restrepo and Guhan Subramanian
5 Harvard Business Law Review, 205-236 (2015)
The Elusive Quest for Global Governance Standards
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani
157 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1263-1317 (2009)
