CORPOCRACY
Editor’s Note: This post is from Robert A.G. Monks of Lens Governance Advisors. I have enjoyed many reviews of CORPOCRACY but none pleases me as much as the following from a teacher in Maine: “Monks,...
View ArticleMy Resolution at ExxonMobil
Editor’s Note: This post is from Robert A.G. Monks of Lens Governance Advisors. At EXXON’S Shareholders Meeting on Wednesday, Resolution #5 received 39.5% of the vote, marginally shy of last year’s...
View ArticleThe Return of the Shareholder
Editor’s Note: This post is by Robert A.G. Monks of Lens Governance Advisors. Less than two decades after Francis Fukuyama famously enshrined market-based liberal democracy as an optimal system at “the...
View ArticleMy Last ExxonMobil Annual Meeting
Editor’s Note: This post is by Robert A.G. Monks of Lens Governance Advisors. Walking to the Myerson Symphony Center past the various galleries, statues and plantings in the Arts District of downtown...
View ArticleIs the Supreme Court Determined to Expand Corporate Power?
(Editor’s Note: This essay was written by Robert Monks and Harvard Law School Visiting Professor Peter Murray.) One of the phrases bandied about during the confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia...
View ArticleBob Monks Delivers Lecture on Shareholder Activism
Robert Monks, a legendary shareholder activist and founder of ISS (which was later acquired by RiskMetrics) and the Corporate Library, recently gave a talk as part of the Shareholder Activism course...
View ArticleCorporate Governance: Past, Present, & Future
Editor’s Note: Robert Monks is the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation. The Vision The modern business...
View ArticleCorporate Governance Redux in the Light of Citizens United
Editor’s Note: Robert Monks is the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation. This post was the basis for a...
View ArticleThe Corporate Capture of the United States
Editor’s Note: Robert Monks is the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation American corporations today are like...
View ArticleCitizens DisUnited
Editor’s Note: Robert Monks is the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation. My newest book, Citizens DisUnited:...
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