2015 Issues in Brief

In 2015, The Conference Board Governance Center will continue its work on corporate/investor engagement and corporate political spending.

The Center will also be conducting research and events around the following themes:

• Researching negative effects of a governance system focused solely on maximizing shareholder wealth, including:

Lack of capital investment in tangible and intangible assets by public corporations,

Wealth transfer from employees and bondholders to shareholders, and

Short term actions at the expense of the future viability of the business.

• Understanding the role of activist hedge funds in driving short term corporate behavior.
• Researching the increasing criminalization of corporate behavior. What are the facts driving this development?
• Researching the facts of proxy advisory firm influence on corporate governance, executive compensation, and director elections.

For more information, please contact Donna Dabney, Executive Director, at donna.dabney@conferenceboard.org.