18th Annual Corporate Governance Conference

18th Annual Corporate Governance Conference

This annual invitation-only conference highlights the profound research by top professors around the world on issues related to corporate governance and the boardroom. Each year, we accept submissions of working papers related to corporate governance. Topics span a broad array of issues related to corporate governance.

Time and Location

Thursday, April 10, 2025
LeBow College of Business, Room: GHall 220-221, 2nd Floor

• 6-7:15 p.m. Keynote Speaker
• 7:15-9 p.m. Cocktail Reception

Friday, April 11, 2025
LeBow College of Business, Room: GHall 220-221, 2nd Floor

• 8:30-9 a.m. Breakfast
• 9:10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sessions

A hotel room block has been reserved until March 10, 2025 at the Study at University City for conference participants. Secure your hotel room.

Detailed Agenda

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Thursday, April 10, 2025

6-7:10 p.m. - Keynote Speaker John C. Coffee, Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia School of Law Activists Versus the Indexed: Who Holds the Power?

7:15-9 p.m. - Networking Reception

Friday, April 11, 2025

8:30-9:00 a.m. - Breakfast

Session I: Jeff Coles, University of Utah and ECGI [Chair]

9:10–9:50 a.m.
Paper: Executive Incentives and Strategic Talent Acquisition: Evidence from Poaching
Presenting Author: Matthew Bloomfield, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Hamed Mahmudi, University of Delaware

9:50–10:30 a.m.
Paper: Public Sentiment Decomposition and Shareholder Actions
Presenting Author: Hoa BRISCOE-TRAN (University of Alberta)
Discussant: Enrichetta RAVINA (Northwestern University and ECGI)

10:30-11 a.m. - Coffee Break

Session II: Adrian Corum, Cornell University [Chair]

11:00–11:40 a.m.
Paper:Succession
Presenting Author: Thomas GEELEN (Penn State University)
Discussant: Maria Cecilia BUSTAMANTE (University of Maryland)

11:40 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Paper: All Shareholder Votes Are Not Created Equal
Presenting Author: Da Huang, Northestern University
Discussant: Miriam Schwartz, Hebrew University and ECGI

12:20-1:20 p.m. - Keynote Speaker
Marco Pagano, Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Naples Federico II

1:20-2:30 p.m. - Lunch Break

Session III: Peter Iliev, Penn State University [Chair]

2:30–3:10 p.m.
Paper: The Politicization of Social Responsibility
Presenting Author: Meng Wang, University of South Florida
Discussant: Lukas Roth, University of Alberta and ECGI

3:10–3:50 p.m.
Paper: Voting on Public Goods: Citizens vs. Shareholders
Presenting Author: Nadya Malenko, Boston College and ECGI
Discussant: Daniel Garrett, University of Pennsylvania

3:50–4:30 p.m.
Paper: Escaping Pay-for-Performance
Presenting Author: Jason CHEN (Auburn University)
Discussant: Yaniv Grinstein, Reichman University and ECGI

For more information, contact Chavonne Hoyle at chavonne.hoyle@drexel.edu.