The workshop will journey through Imperial Russia, turn of the century Egypt and China, Edwardian Britain and the Gilded Age US, exploring issues of corporate governance that continue to resonate in the present day.

Board 3.0 : Bringing the Private Equity Model to Public Companies   Friday, May 21, 2021 09:15 – 12:30 EDT (15:15 – 18:30 CEST) Download programme   About this event

The video of this conference is available below (scroll down)  RIETI/WBF/ECGI A Webinar Series on: A New Concept of the Corporation

Since 2008, the Annual Corporate Governance Conference at Drexel University, hosted by the Gupta Governance Institute, has highlighted top academic research. The research is accepted for the conference when it is in its early stages and much of it is subsequently published in the most highly regarded research journals.

The fifth seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series was held on Monday, 12 April 2021 at 16:00 CEST (10:00 EST).

RIETI, WBF and ECGI came together to organise a webinar series on the new concept of the corporation, the EU/UK experience and its lessons for Japanese corporate governance reforms.

Should corporate leaders manage their business for all their stakeholders, or should shareholders’ interests come first? London Business School’s Centre for Corporate Governance in partnership with Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) are organizing a workshop to debate, “Stakeholder Capitalism: The Case For and Against”.

The third seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series took place on 16 November 2020 at 16:00 CET (10:00 EST).

This online conference brought together leading scholars, including Nobel Laureate Bengt Holmström (MIT and ECGI), from the fields of strategy, organisational theory, organisational economics, finance and corporate law...

ECGI and the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) hosted a conference on Sustainable Finance on October 16-17, 2020...

The second seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series took place on 14 September 2020 at 16:00 CEST (10:00 EDT).

[Riga] One of the priorities mentioned in the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan of the European Commission is “easing business transfers”, for example, through reducing cross-border inheritance tax obstacles, improving information and advice services, and other initiatives. Likewise, stock exchanges are attempting to ease obstacles for SMEs, that are predominantly family-owned, to raise capital through public markets. The conference examined these tendencies. 

This academic conference focused on the theme of Executive Compensation and Sustainability. Attendance was by invitation only.

[Tokyo] Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) conducted this 3-day international seminar which wrapped up past research activities and explored new issues to be challenged concerning this research project.

This Conference offered a context to reflect upon and better understand how the different nature of shareholders have an impacted on the way companies are governed and managed...

The conference remembered the late Professor Brigitte Haar who passed away much too early this spring. Brigitte was Professor of Private German, European, and International Business Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and an ECGI Research Member.

The Mergers & Acquisitions Research Centre at Cass Business School hosted the Fourth Annual M&A Research Centre Conference on Monday 19 August 2019 at Cass Business School, London.

Corporations, and other forms of business associations, have been the subject of intense study including their history, governance, and obligations to stakeholders and the public at large...

The fifth annual GCGC conference took place at the House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. Attendance was by invitation only.

March 2019 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Centros case (C-212/97), without doubt the most influential judgment rendered by the (then) Court of Justice in the field of European company law...

ICGN and ECGI organised a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam... 

The Roundtable focused on loyalty shares as a legal solution for encouraging long-term ownership, a concept that is gaining traction in Europe with the support of the European Commission, and has also attracted interest in the United States. 

This ECGI Roundtable was hosted by Hermes Investment Management on 25 October 2018. The Roundtable focused on the nature of governance interventions by institutional shareholders. 

The Roundtable focused on loyalty shares as a legal solution for encouraging long-term ownership, a concept that is promoted by policy makers, including the European Commission, some institutional investors and issuers. This event was by invitation only. Institutional and Patron members were invited.