ICYMI: #corpgov Midweek Roundup (Oct. 9, 2019)

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"Directors who become associated with pill adoption experience significant decreases in vote margins and increases in termination rates .... Firms have positive abnormal stock price reactions when pill-associated directors die or depart ...." https://t.co/IjSDbUTU9T #corpgov

— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) October 7, 2019

"On average since 1980, the stock price of IPO firms has popped about 18 percent over the offering price on the first day of trading. Snapchat and its selling stockholders, to take one example, left almost $1.75 billion on the table in the company’s IPO." #corpgov https://t.co/Rv9snrpy9Z

— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) October 9, 2019

The English East India Company began its life "as a cross between a guild (a form of member corporation) and a joint-stock company (a form of partnership).... its stockholders inherited the moniker[] of ... ‘owner’" https://t.co/9PYx1ZlOKB #corpgov

— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) October 8, 2019

"Companies based in the European Union ... are subject to a continuous disclosure regime.... Disclosure rules in the U.S. are different." https://t.co/SW2Z4jXzwO #corpgov

— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) October 5, 2019

"legislative approaches to CSR adopted in the United Kingdom, Canada, India and the European Union are analysed" https://t.co/4l0W1rN6f9 #corpgov

— Stefan Padfield (@ProfPadfield) October 3, 2019