Columns

2025

• Bridging Board Gaps—Again, NACD Directorship (March/Spring 2025) [View PDF]
• Delaware Aptly Balances Certainty and Scrutiny in Corporate Law, Bloomberg
  (February 24, 2025)
• Despite Musk’s Rebuff, Delaware Must Remain Corporate Law Center, Bloomberg (February 12, 2025)
• From Boom to Backlash: Guiding Directors in a Shifting ESG Landscape, Delaware Business Times (February 5, 2025)
• Directors must transcend the politics of the moment to provide steady oversight and leadership for their companies. Directors & Boards (February 5, 2025)

2024

• Delaware Corporate Law Debate Feeds a Robust and Balanced System, Bloomberg (December 11, 2024)
• Boardroom Demographic Diversity Hits Record Levels as Substantive Diversity Emerges, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog (December 10, 2024)
• Delaware Corporate Law Still Gold Standard Amid ESG Blowback,  Bloomberg,  (November 21, 2024)
• Gensler’s Stalled ESG Agenda May Spur Firms to Slow Compliance, Bloomberg Law, (September 11, 2024)
• Navigating the Nuances of Board Diversity in NASDAQ-Listed Companies, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, (August 21, 2024)
• Should CEOs Speak Out? A Board Framework, The Corporate Board, (July/August 2024)
• Who Should Be on the CEO Search Committee?, Directors & Boards, (April 2, 2024)

2021-2023

• Key Takeaways from Elon Musk vs. the SEC, Directors & Boards, (June 2023)
• ESG Metrics in Compensation Plans and Executive Employment Agreements, Directors & Boards Newsletter and Magazine (2022-23)
• Why Do Companies Going Public Choose Controversial Governance Structures, and Why Do Investors Let Them?, The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, (June 21, 2022)
• Gender disclosure rules can make a difference, ECGI Blog
• The Impact of a Principles-Based Approach to Director Gender Diversity Policy, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance’s blog, (September 2021)

2016-2020

• Trading in Textbooks for Newspapers, Directors & Boards, (July 29, 2020)
• T-Mobile’s eccentric CEO isn’t the right person to lead WeWork, CNN Perspectives, (November 18, 2019)
• WeWork for Adam Neumann, Ethical Boardroom Magazine, (Fall 2019)
• THE PURPOSE DEBATE Three Problems With the Stakeholder Theory, Directors & Boards (Third Quarter 2019)
• SOX’s Financial-Expert Requirement 15 Years Later, Directors & Boards Magazine (Annual Report 2018)
• Unequal Voting and the Business Judgement Rule, Harvard law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, (April 17, 2018)
• Snap’s Not Looking to Chat with Shareholders, Directors & Boards Magazine, (Fourth Quarter 2017)
• “On Leadership: An Interview with Kenneth C. Frazier, President & CEO of Merck & Co. Inc.,  ACC (2017)
• Snap’s Not Looking to Chat with Shareholders, Directors & Boards
• ExxonMobil and the ‘Rexit’ retirement package, Ethical Boardroom, (Spring 2017)
• How Delaware May Be Dethroned and Why It Should Not, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation,
  (March 31, 2017)
• Climate change and the corporate board: Too hot not to handle?, Directors & Boards, (First Quarter 2017)
• The Government’s giant shadow in the boardroom (PDF), Directors & Boards, (Second Quarter 2016)

2011-2015

• The Compliance Conundrum (PDF), (Ethisphere, Fall 2015)
• The pay ratio rule: Get ready, get going (PDF), Directors & Boards, (Third Quarter 2014)
• Comment Letter – Farm Credit Administration (PDF), (April 2014)
• William P. Lauder on governing the controlled corporation (PDF) Directors & Boards, (Annual Report 2014)
• A New Kind of Captured Board, Directors & Boards, (First Quarter 2014)
• Comment Letter – Securities and Exchange Commission (Pay Ratio Disclosure) (PDF) (December, 2013)
• Peer Groups – Understanding CEO Compensation and a Proposal for a New Approach (PDF) Directors Notes, The Conference Board, (April 2013)
• When Searching for a CEO, there’s No Place Like Home, The Wall Street Journal,
  (October, 2012)
• Dual Class Stock: Governance at the Edge (PDF), Directors & Boards, (Third Quarter 2012)
• Compensation and the Myth of the Corporate Superstar, Harvard Business Review, (February, 2012)
• What is a CEO worth? Don’t look to peers (PDF) Directors & Boards, (2011)
• Punting Peer Groups: Resolving the Compensation Conundrum (PDF), BNA Corporate Governance Report, (May, 2011)

2000-2010

• The Great Divide (PDF), Directors & Boards, (First Quarter 2010)
• Director term limits come up for review (PDF), Directors & Boards, (Second Quarter 2008)
• Sidney J. Weinberg: The Functions of a Corporate Director: An Address before the Harvard Business School Club of Cleveland, May 31, 1949 (PDG), Directors & Boards (Summer 2003)
• Ed Woolard: A life in governance (PDF), Directors & Boards (Fall 2000)

The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence A. Cunningham

Quality Investing, Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term
by Lawrence A. Cunningham