Taming the Stock Option Game
Editor’s Note: This post is based on Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried’s recent op-ed for the international association of newspapers Project Syndicate, which can be found here. This article builds on...
View ArticlePaying for Long-Term Performance
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance at Harvard Law School. Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law...
View ArticlePrinciples for Tying Equity Compensation to Long-Term Performance
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance at Harvard Law School. Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law...
View ArticleShare Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay
Editor’s Note: Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Academics, regulators, and investors have been urging firms to tie executive pay to the long-term stock price. In the paper,...
View ArticleExcess-Pay Clawbacks
Editor’s Note: Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In the paper, Excess-Pay Clawbacks, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN, Nitzan Shilon and I identify substantial...
View ArticleDo VCs Use Inside Rounds to Dilute Founders?
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Brian Broughman of the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Jesse Fried, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In our paper,...
View ArticleInsider Trading via the Corporation
Editor’s Note: Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. My paper, Insider Trading via the Corporation, recently posted on SSRN, critically examines the regulations applicable to U.S....
View ArticleDelaware Law as Lingua Franca: Evidence from VC-Backed Startups
Editor’s Note: Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. This post is part of the Delaware law series, which is cosponsored by the Forum and Corporation Service Company; links to other...
View ArticleCarrots & Sticks: How VCs Induce Entrepreneurial Teams to Sell Startups
Editor’s Note: Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Brian Broughman is an Associate Professor of Law at the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington. Venture...
View ArticleThe Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-term Shareholders
Editor’s Note: Jesse Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. The power of short-term shareholders in widely-held public firms is widely blamed for “short-termism”: directors and executives...
View ArticlePoll Ranks Harvard First in Strength of Business Law Faculty
A new poll, conducted by Brian Leitter of the University of Chicago Law School, and published here, identifies the top business law faculties. Harvard Law School was ranked first, coming ahead of...
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