In this event, participants will review the Bhagat-Obreja paper and consider the role of uncertainty in major business decisions.

Has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act increased corporate costs without strengthening corporate governance?

Examiningtheir incentives and access to informationraises questions about whether a supermajority of independent directors should be the "gold standard" of corporate governance.

It has been almost two years since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed by Congress and signed into law. Adopted in the wake of Enron and other corporate scandals, the act and subsequent regulations by the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq mandated the dominance of corporate boards and audit committees...

Shareholder access proposals, masquerading as the questionable notion of "shareholder democracy," would hamper corporate efficiency and profitability.