College of
Business
Administration
College of
Business
Administration
1) Examine the issues that institutions encounter in their roles as fiduciaries versus shareholders. Would there be a strategy institutions can apply to avoid these conflicts and enhance their role and responsibilities? 2) Examine how activism from institutional investors affect corporate governance. Would there be benefits that offset the tangible and intangible costs from their monitoring activities?
3) How does activism by institutional investors affect a firm's performance?
4) As an individual shareholder, would you wish for institutional investors to increase activism in corporate governance? Explain.
5) Describe how institutional investors who maintain short-term or long-term investment strategies affect corporate governance. Which strategy would be appropriate for the shareholder and corporation?
6) Describe the relationship of shareholder and stakeholder to a corporation. Which group is a corporate board accountable? Explain.
7) Examine the social investing decisions that corporate directors make for their firm. How does this provide "value" to shareholders and stakeholders? Should social investing be supported by shareholders and/or stakeholders?
8) For firms that wish to have "independent directors," what standard selection criteria may be applied to identify the "independent director"? Explain.
9) Examine the interests that the "independent director" would represent on behalf of the shareholder and stakeholder.
10) What does Jacques Blondeau mean in his statement, "to be accountable to everybody is to be accountable to nobody," as it relates to shareholders and stakeholders?
11) With regard to Rowland Fleming's article, explain the issues confronting corporate accountability to shareholders versus stakeholders? Would there be one that provides greater "value" to the organization? Explain.
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