The Ownership of Enterprise

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Celebrating Henry Hansmann’s Book:
The Ownership of Enterprise

Hybrid Conference

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 Friday, 29 October 2021 09:00 – 18:00 EDT (15:00 – 00:00 CEST)

Saturday, 30 October 2021 09:00 – 15:45 EDT (15:00 – 21:45 CEST) 

Organised by 

Zohar Goshen (Columbia Law School and ECGI)

About the Event
 

Twenty-five years ago, Harvard University Press published the seminal book The Ownership of Enterprise by Professor Henry Hansmann of Yale Law School. The book revolutionized the study of business organizational law, providing a far-reaching framework for understanding why some enterprises are owned by shareholders, while others are owned by producers or customers, and a third group — the non-profits —have no owners at all.
 
In lieu of a festschrift, the event explored the broad influence of Professor Hansmann’s masterwork through panel discussions and presentations of original papers by more than twenty professors of law, business, and economics. The event featured keynote speeches by two Nobel Laureates in Economics — Professor Oliver Hart of Harvard University, and Professor Bengt Holmström of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — as well as by Professor Hansmann himself.

Note: This was a hybrid event. Speakers and invited guests attended in person and the general audience attended online. 

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