The Hedge Fund Activism Project, 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 hedge funds activism.
Research studies on hedge funds activism by faculty and fellows associated with the Programs includes:
The Law and Economics of Equity Swap Disclosure
Lucian A. Bebchuk
Universal Proxies
Scott Hirst
35 Yale Journal on Regulation, 437-512 (2018)
Dancing with Activists
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav, Wei Jiang, and Thomas Keusch.
137 Journal of Financial Economics, 1-41 (2020)
Who Bleeds When the Wolves Bite? A Flesh-and-Blood Perspective on Hedge Fund Activism and Our Strange Corporate Governance System
Leo E. Strine, Jr.
126 Yale Law Journal, 1870-1971 (2017)
Short-Termism and Shareholder Payouts: Getting Corporate Capital Flows Right
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C. Y. Wang
8 Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 207-233 (2019)
Servants of Two Masters? The Feigned Hysteria over Activist-Paid Directors
Yaron Nili
18 Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 509-572 (2016)
Against All Odds: Hedge Fund Activism in Controlled Companies
Kobi Kastiel
16 Columbia Business Law Review, 61-132 (2016)
The Long-Term Effects of Hedge Fund Activism
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav, and Wei Jiang
115 Columbia Law Review 1085-1156 (2015)
Can We Do Better by Ordinary Investors? A Pragmatic Reaction to the Dueling Ideological Mythologists of Corporate Law
Leo E. Strine, Jr.
114 Columbia Law Review 449-502 (2014)
Corporate Short-Termism—In the Boardroom and in the Courtroom
Mark J. Roe
68 The Business Lawyer 977-1006 (2013)
The Myth That Insulating Boards Serves Long-Term Value
Lucian A. Bebchuk
113 Columbia Law Review 1637-1694 (2013)
Pre-Disclosure Accumulations by Activist Investors: Evidence and Policy
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alon Brav, Robert J. Jackson, Jr. and Wei Jiang
39 Journal of Corporation Law 1-34 (2013)
The Law and Economics of Blockholder Disclosure
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Robert J. Jackson Jr.
22 Harvard Business Law Review 40-60 (2012)
