
Corporate Accountability Forums
A meeting place to discuss stewardship, engagement, and strategies associated with ESG issues and solutions.
Episodes
10 episodes
John Grau Glenn and Michael Levin on ESG via Universal Proxy Card
Join Jim McRitchie, proxy advisor John Glenn Grau and activist investor Michael Levin to discuss ESG via UPC:How can those concerned with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues use new universal proxy card (UPC) rules to run...
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56:21

Scott Hirst and Adriana Robertson on Hidden Agendas in Shareholder Voting
Jim McRitchie, BU Law’s Scott Hirst and UChicago Law’s Adriana Robertson discuss potential conflicts between record date notification and securities lending:Are “hidden agendas” a real problem? How do you deal with it? Do you typically ...
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57:08

Bruce Herbert on Changing Investor Awareness
Bruce Herbert and Jim McRitchie discuss the growth in responsible investment and changing grassroots investor perspectives, vote-counting in corporate America, and working with celebrity presenters for virtual shareholder meetings.
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1:07:51

BU Law's David Webber on The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder
David Webber and Jim McRitchie discuss David's book The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon and how to align trillions of dollars in worker pension and retirement assets with the best interests of its benefi...
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Aspen Institute's Judy Samuelson on The Six New Rules of Business
Judy Samuelson is the founder and executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program. Signature programs under Judy’s leadership include a ten-year campaign to disrupt Milton Friedman’s narrative about corporate purpose, t...
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1:12:46

Jackie Cook of Morningstar's Sustainalytics on CEO Pay and Gender Parity
Jackie Cook is Director, Stewardship, Product Strategy & Development in Morningstar's Sustainalytics’ Stewardship services team. Pioneer in applying automated text analysis to building structured datasets from unstructured corporate and inv...
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Episode 5
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Leo E. Strine, Jr. on Stakeholder Capitalism and Lifting Labor's Voice
Former Delaware Chief Justice and Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. and Jim McRitchie discuss a range of topics involving labor's role in stakeholder capitalism and other effective levers in the pursuit of corporate accountability and stewardship (...
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Episode 4
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1:10:10

Corey Rosen & Jack Moriarty on Leveraging Employee Ownership
Corey Rosen, Jack Moriarty & Jim McRitchie discuss ESOPs and other structures that enable employee ownership and its role in stakeholder capitalism. Compelling research and decades of experience show that employee ownership is in fact a pow...
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Episode 3
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Bill Burckart & Meredith Miller on Systemic Stewardship
Bill Burckart, Meredith Miller & Jim McRitchie discuss strategies and tools designed to address social and financial system challenges through collaborative action, setting industry standards, and creating a rising tide of investment ...
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