For Whom is the Corporation Managed?
[NYC] The Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at NYU will host a roundtable on the subject "For Whom is the Corporation Managed?" on Friday 6 December 2019
Events
Events
ECGI engages with its members and partners through wide-raging events around the world. These take the form of academic conferences, roundtables, and practitioner-academic events. The aim of these events is to encourage discussion and debate across geographic, industry and disciplinary boundaries. An example of this, is the successful Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) which allows for academic debate between specialist academics in Finance, Law, Management and Business.
Upcoming events
This academic conference will focus on the theme of Executive Compensation and Sustainability. Attendance is by invitation only.
Date:
16 - 17 December 2019
Location:
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan
Speakers:
[NYC] The Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at NYU will host a roundtable on the subject "For Whom is the Corporation Managed?" on Friday 6 December 2019
[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.
Date:
05 - 07 November 2019
Location:
Tokyo
The event at Downing College, University of Cambridge considered the broader question of how best to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios.
Date:
28 October 2019
Location:
University of Cambridge
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...
Date:
25 - 26 October 2019
Location:
IESE Center for Corporate Governance, Barcelona
The 2019 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting took place at IESE Business School, Barcelona on 24 October 2019.
Date:
24 October 2019
Location:
IESE Business School, Barcelona
The conference remembered our late colleague 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.
Date:
24 September 2019
Location:
Goethe University Frankfurt
This conference at King’s College London brought together standard setters to share experiences and good practices, enhance dialogue, guide scholarship, and shape future stewardship policy through evidence-based recommendations.
Date:
23 - 24 September 2019
Location:
King’s College London
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.
The Technology, Governance and Regulation Conference in Jerusalem was hosted by the Jerusalem School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University...
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...
Date:
05 July 2019
Location:
University College London, Faculty of Laws
The Roundtable focused on the reasons and implications of fewer companies going public. The steep decline in initial public offerings in the U.S. has raised concerns about reduced opportunities for...
Date:
10 June 2019
Location:
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
The fifth annual GCGC conference took place at the House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. Attendance was by invitation only.
Date:
07 - 08 June 2019
Location:
House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt
This conference focused on the role of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) considerations in the management of public companies and the investment priorities of asset managers...
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...
Date:
15 March 2019
Location:
University of Oxford
The Mayo Center for Asset Management at the University of Virginia, an ECGI Academic Institutional Member, and the Investment Company Institute (ICI) hosted the 2019 Academic & Practitioner Symposium on Mutual Funds and ETFs which focused this year on Corporate Governance and ESG investing
Date:
22 February 2019
Location:
Washington DC
ICGN and ECGI organised a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam...
Date:
11 February 2019
Location:
APG Group N.V., Amsterdam
This academic conference focused on the theme of 'Differential Voting Shares'. Attendance was by invitation only.
Date:
12 - 13 December 2018
Location:
Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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.
Date:
07 December 2018
Location:
NYU School of Law
Speakers:
The Roundtable focused on the impact of new technologies such as blockchain and AI on corporate governance.
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.
Date:
25 October 2018
Location:
Hermes Investment Management, London
Speakers:
The third Cass Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) Conference was held at Cass Business School, City, University of London on Monday 20 August 2018.
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.
Date:
18 June 2018
Location:
Brussels, Belgium
The fourth annual GCGC conference took place at Harvard University on 1 -2 June 2018. We are no longer accepting submissions for this conference. Attendance is by invitation only.
Date:
01 - 02 June 2018
Location:
Harvard Law School, USA
The launch conference for the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance was held in Oxford on Friday May 11, 2018
Date:
11 May 2018
Location:
Said Business School, Oxford
Speakers:
The 2018 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting took place at ESMT, Berlin on 3 - 4 May 2018.
Date:
03 - 04 May 2018
Location:
ESMT, Berlin
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ECGI and the Centre for Economic Policy Research hosted the book launch of: Finance and Investment: The European Case
This academic conference focused on the theme of 'Institutional Investor Activism and Engagement'.
Date:
10 - 11 December 2017
Location:
Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel
The Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (JLFA) is pleased to announce its sixth conference, that was at the London Business School, Sussex Place Regents Park, Friday November 17th and Saturday November 18th, 2017. This conference was being organized in conjunction with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).
Date:
17 - 18 November 2017
Location:
London
The Roundtable focused on the role of foreign institutional investors and proxy advisory firms in promoting corporate governance and sustainable investment.
This Roundtable focused on the role of employees in corporate governance against the backdrop of the recent UK Green Paper on corporate governance...
Date:
25 October 2017
Location:
170 Queens Gate, London
This research project, co-directed by Professor Luca Enriques (University of Oxford, Faculty of Law) and Professor Tobias Tröger (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt) has brought together top legal and finance scholars to reflect upon the role...
Date:
20 - 21 October 2017
Location:
Frankfurt, Germany
Speakers:
This seminar presented first results from an ongoing project based on a unique data set provided by a large UK asset manager, Standard Life Investments (“SLI”).
Date:
03 October 2017
Location:
London Business School
Speakers:
The 2nd Annual Cass M&A Conference took place on 22 August 2017 at Cass Business School (London)
The ECGI Asia Corporate Governance Dialogue (EACGD) took place in Singapore on 7 July 2017.
This conference examines the many aspects of Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance, including activism, takeovers, competition, and liquidity.
Date:
09 - 10 June 2017
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
The third annual GCGC conference took place at Tokyo University on 2 -3 June 2017.
Date:
02 - 03 June 2017
Location:
Tokyo University, Japan
The ECGI Annual Members Meeting 2017 took place on 27-28 April 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
This conference brought together senior scholars and policymakers with the objective of examining the important questions and identifying the cutting edge insights from existing scholarship in the fields of law, economics, and finance.
Date:
13 - 14 January 2017
Location:
University of Oxford, Oxford
The conference, held in Capri on 8-9 September 2016, aimed to bring together researchers from financial and labor economics to discuss issues from the point of view of both disciplines.
Date:
08 - 09 September 2016
Location:
Anacapri, Italy
The First Annual Cass M&A Conference took place on 22 August 2016 at Cass Business School (London)
Date:
22 August 2016
Location:
London
The ECGI Asia Corporate Governance Dialogue (EACGD) took place in Tokyo on 7 August 2016.
Date:
07 August 2016
Location:
Tokyo, Japan
The second annual GCGC conference took place at Stockholm School of Economics on 10 - 11 June 2016.
Date:
10 - 11 June 2016
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
The European Corporate Governance Research Foundation was officially launched on 31 May 2016 in Brussels.
Date:
31 May 2016
Location:
Royal Academies of Belgium, Palace of the Academies, Brussels, Belgium
Speakers:
The ECGI Annual Members Meeting 2016 took place on 21 and 22 April 2016 in London, UK.
Date:
21 - 22 April 2016
Location:
London, UK
The inaugural GCGC conference took place at Stanford University on 5 - 6 June 2015.
Date:
05 - 06 June 2015
Location:
California, USA
Speakers:
The General Assembly took place at the BI on Friday morning, followed by the 2015 ECGI Annual Lecture and the announcement of the winners of the 2015 Working Paper prizes.
The second EU Asia dialogue series took place at the National University of Singapore on Tuesday 24 february 2015. The theme of the conference was Corporate Governance and Large Shareholders.
Date:
24 February 2015
Location:
Singapore
A presentation of the academic research paper "The Returns to Hedge Fund Activism: An International Study" followed by a panel discussion and a reception, organised by the LBS Centre for Corporate Governance and the ECGI held at the London Business School.
The ECGI Annual Members Meeting 2014 took place on 28 and 29 April 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. The event comprised of a dinner, AGM, Lecture and Prize-giving ceremony.
Date:
28 - 29 April 2014
Location:
Brussels, Belgium