Jesse M. Fried

Harvard Law School

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1.

Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 647-673, 2005, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 8-22, 2005, Academy of Management Perspectives, pp. 5-24, February 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 19 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 10,312 (562)
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Keywords: Corporate governance, managers, shareholders, boards, directors, executive compensation, stock options, principal-agent problem, agency costs, rent extraction, disclosure, stealth compensation, compensation consultants, camouflage.

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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 17, pp. 71-92, 2003, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 421
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

NBER Working Paper No. w9813
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2003
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Aug 2003
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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M14, corporate governance, managers, shareholders, boards, directors, executive compensation, stock options, principal-agent problem, agency costs, rent extraction, golden parachutes, executive loans, compensation consultants, expensing

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What Courses Should Law Students Take? Harvard's Largest Employers Weigh In

HLS Program on the Legal Profession Research Paper No. 2014-12, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 14-20
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2014
John C. Coates IV, Jesse M. Fried and Kathryn E. Spier
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard University - Law School - Faculty
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legal education, accounting, finance, law firms, legal practice, corporate finance, legal profession

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Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation

Harvard University Press, 2004
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 7,409 (1,001)
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Corporate governance, managers, executives, shareholders, boards, directors, executive compensation, principal-agent problem, pay for performance, agency costs, stock options, rents, camouflage

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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 69, pp. 751-846, 2002, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 366, June 2002
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 19 Jun 2002 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
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corporate governance, managers, shareholders, directors, boards, executive compensation, stock options, private benefits of control, principal-agent problem, agency costs, rent extraction, golden parachutes, accounting, FASB rules, disclosure, camouflage, insider trading, indexed options, vesting

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

NBER Working Paper No. w9068
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 20 Jul 2002 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2021
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
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Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

Number of pages: 103 Posted: 30 Oct 2002
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
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Corporate governance, managers, shareholders, directors, boards, executive compensation, stock options, private benefits of control, principal-agent problem, agency costs, rent extraction, golden parachutes, accounting, FASB rules, disclosure, camouflage

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Paying for Long-Term Performance

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 158, pp. 1915-1959, 2010, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 658
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2010
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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executive compensation, executive pay, equity-based compensation, restricted shares, options, risk-taking, long-term, retention, backdating, spring-loading, unloading, insider trading, hedging, derivatives

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Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 807-822, 2005, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 653125, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 505, February 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 05 May 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Executive compensation, agency problems, pay for performance, nonperformance pay, performance pay, soft landing, golden goodbyes, camouflage, misreporting, restatement, earning manipulation, incentives

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Short-Termism and Capital Flows

Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Forthcoming., European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 342/2017, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 17-062
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2018
Jesse M. Fried and Charles C. Y. Wang
Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School (HBS), Accounting & Control Unit
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short-termism; quarterly capitalism; corporate governance; share buybacks; open market repurchases; dividends; equity issuances; seasoned equity offerings; equity compensation; acquisitions; payout policy; capital flows; capital distribution

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The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-Term Shareholders

124 Yale Law Journal 1554-1628 (2015), ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 200
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 03 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2015
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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AOL-Time Warner, corporate governance, short-termism, short-term shareholders, long-term shareholders, agency costs, earnings manipulation, managerial myopia, share repurchases, open market repurchases, acquisitions, seasoned equity offerings, real earnings management, Wal-Mart

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Stealth Compensation Via Retirement Benefits

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Stealth Compensation Via Retirement Benefits

Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 1, pp. 291-326, 2004, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 487, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 583861
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Executive compensation, pay for performance, agency costs, rent extraction, stealth compensation, camouflage, retirement benefits, deferred compensation, executive pensions, perks

Stealth Compensation Via Retirement Benefits

NBER Working Paper No. w10742
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Excess-Pay Clawbacks

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 36, pp. 722-751, 2011
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2015
Jesse M. Fried and Nitzan Shilon
Harvard Law School and Peking University School of Transnational Law
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Dodd-Frank, Clawback, Executive Compensation, Bonuses, Stock Options, Restricted Stock, Manipulation, Managerial Power, Sarbanes Oxley

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Renegotiation of Cash Flow Rights in the Sale of VC-Backed Firms

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 95, pp. 384-399, 2010, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 956243
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2011
Brian J. Broughman and Jesse M. Fried
Vanderbilt University Law School and Harvard Law School
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Venture capital, preferred stock, liquidation preferences, corporate governance, incomplete contracting

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Insider Trading via the Corporation

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2014, Forthcoming, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 743, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 12-39
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 02 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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insider trading, corporate governance, stock buybacks, share repurchases open market repurchases, equity issuances, at-the-market offerings, overvalued equity, payout policy, seasoned equity offerings, manipulation, real earnings management

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Insider Signaling and Insider Trading with Repurchase Tender Offers

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 67, pp., 421-477, 2000
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 01 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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share repurchases, repurchase tender offer, insider trading, signaling, securities regulation, corporate governance

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Carrots and Sticks: How VCs Induce Entrepreneurial Teams to Sell Startups

Cornell Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Brian J. Broughman and Jesse M. Fried
Vanderbilt University Law School and Harvard Law School
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venture capital, startups, preferred shareholders, common shareholders, corporate governance, entrepreneurs, founders, mergers, trade sales, carve-outs, vote-buying, opportunism, liquidation preferences

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Agency Costs of Venture Capitalist Control in Startups

New York University Law Review, Vol. 81, pp. 967-1025, 2006
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2011
Jesse M. Fried and Mira Ganor
Harvard Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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venture capital, start-ups, preferred stock, corporate governance, fiduciary duties

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The Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 105, pp. 857-934, 1996, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 166
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 19 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 07 May 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Secured debt, bankruptcy, reorganization, chapter 11, priority, creditors, debtors, security interests, collateral, unsecured debt, lenders, borrowers

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A New Approach to Valuing Secured Claims in Bankruptcy

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A New Approach to Valuing Secured Claims in Bankruptcy

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 114, pp. 2386-2436, 2001, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 321, 2001, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 49
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Apr 2001 Last Revised: 10 May 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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bankruptcy, insolvency, secured debt, security interest, collateral, valuation, bankruptcy reform

A New Approach to Valuing Secured Claims in Bankruptcy

NBER Working Paper No. w8276
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 May 2001 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2021
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Will Nasdaq's Diversity Rules Harm Investors?

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 579/2021
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2021
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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NASDAQ, SEC, corporate governance, boards, diversity

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Alibaba: A Case Study of Synthetic Control

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 533/2020, Harvard Business Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2021
Jesse M. Fried and Ehud Kamar
Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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Alibaba, Ant Group, China, Controlled Firms, Controlling Shareholder, Corporate Control, VIEs, Corporate Governance

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The European Commission's Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper 553/2020, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 20-30, Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2021
Mark J. Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried and Charles C. Y. Wang
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School (HBS), Accounting & Control Unit
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corporate governance, short-termism, hedge funds, shareholder activism, European Union, securities regulation, agency costs, research and development, political economy, investment, payouts, repurchases

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Open Market Repurchases: Signaling or Managerial Opportunism?

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 2, pp. 865-894, 2001, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 64
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Aug 2001 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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share repurchases, open market repurchases, signaling, managerial opportunism, insider trading, payout policy

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Rationalizing the Dodd-Frank Clawback

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 314/2016
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 14 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2016
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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Executive pay, Dodd Frank, clawback, excess pay, securities regulation, misreporting, recovery, erroneously awarded compensation, restatement, accounting, financial reporting, financial results, manipulation

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Do VCs Use Inside Rounds to Dilute Founders? Some Evidence from Silicon Valley

Journal of Corporate Finance, Volume 18, 1104-1120 (2012)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2014
Brian J. Broughman and Jesse M. Fried
Vanderbilt University Law School and Harvard Law School
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Venture capital, dilution, corporate governance, inside rounds, opportunism, corporate law, inside financing, adverse selection

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Informed Trading and False Signaling with Open Market Repurchases

California Law Review, Vol. 93, pp. 1323-1386, October 2005
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2014
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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Payout policy, stock repurchases, dividends, signaling, insider trading

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Delaware Law as Lingua Franca: Theory and Evidence

57 Journal of Law and Economics 865-895 (2014)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2015
Brian J. Broughman, Jesse M. Fried and Darian M. Ibrahim
Vanderbilt University Law School, Harvard Law School and William & Mary Law School
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incorporation, domicile, Delaware, corporate governance, entrepreneurs, founders, startups, corporation, corporate law, charters, venture capital

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Reducing the Profitability of Corporate Insider Trading Through Pretrading Disclosure

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Reducing the Profitability of Corporate Insider Trading Through Pretrading Disclosure

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 303-392, 1998
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 22 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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insider trading, executive compensation, corporate governance, securities regulation

Reducing the Profitability of Corporate Insider Trading Through Pretrading Disclosure

S. Cal. L. Rev. Vol. 71, pp. 303-392, 1998
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 08 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2014
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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insider trading, executive compensation, corporate governance, securities regulation

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Insider Abstention

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 13, pp. 455-492, 2003, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 330520
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Sep 2002 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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inside information, insider trading, securities regulation

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Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU

European Financial Management, Forthcoming, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper 544/2020
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2021
Jesse M. Fried and Charles C. Y. Wang
Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School (HBS), Accounting & Control Unit
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short-termism; EU; payout policy; investment; innovation

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Option Backdating and its Implications

GOVERNANCE AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION, William Forbes, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010, Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 65, pp. 853-886, 2008, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1118439
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 10 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2011
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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Executive compensation, stock options, corporate governance, managers, shareholders, CEOs, boards, camouflage, managerial power, Sarbanes Oxley, independent directors

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Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay

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Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay

Texas Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 5, p. 1113, 2011
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 May 2011
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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share repurchases, equity issuances, executive pay, stock, stock options, restricted stock, corporate governance, agency costs, overvalued equity, insider trading, payout policy, seasoned equity offerings, executive compensation, manipulation

Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 696
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2011
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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Firms Gone Dark

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 76, pp. 135-160 (2009), UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1300751
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2013
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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securities regulation, mandatory disclosure, going dark, agency costs

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The Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy: Further Thoughts and a Reply to Critics

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The Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy: Further Thoughts and a Reply to Critics

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 82, pp.1279-1348, 1997, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 224
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 27 Jan 1998 Last Revised: 05 May 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Secured debt, bankruptcy, reorganization, chapter 11, priority, creditors, debtors, security interests, collateral, unsecured debt, lenders, borrowers

The Uneasy Case for the Priority of Secured Claims in Bankruptcy: Further Thoughts and a Reply to Critics

NBER Working Paper No. w6472
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2021
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Do Founders Control Start-Up Firms that Go Public?

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 405/2018, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-23, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 401, Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 10, 2020
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 May 2018 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2021
Brian J. Broughman and Jesse M. Fried
Vanderbilt University Law School and Harvard Law School
Downloads 453 (77,564)
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Startups, Founders, Venture Capital, VC, IPOs, Stock Markets, Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, Corporate Governance, CEO, Shareholders, NASDAQ

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Managers' Fiduciary Duty Upon the Firm's Insolvency: Accounting for Performance Creditors

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 55, pp. 1813-1844, 2002
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2010
Jesse M. Fried and Alon Chaver
Harvard Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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insolvency, bankruptcy, contracts, executory contracts, fiduciary duty

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The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Pay Tunneling

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The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Pay Tunneling

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 385/2018, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) - Discussion Paper No. DP12697, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
Jesse M. Fried, Ehud Kamar and Yishay Yafeh
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration
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controlling shareholders, executive compensation, related-party transactions, shareholder voting, tunneling

The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Tunneling

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12697
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2019
Jesse M. Fried, Ehud Kamar and Yishay Yafeh
Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration
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controlling shareholders, corporate governance, corporate law, Executive compensation, minority shareholders, related party transactions, securities regulation, shareholder voting, tunneling, veto rights

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Cheap-Stock Tunneling Around Preemptive Rights

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 408/2018, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 18-33, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2019
Jesse M. Fried and Holger Spamann
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Controlling shareholder, tunneling, equity issuance, equity issue, equity tunneling, preemptive rights, minority shareholders, public shareholders, rights offers, rights issues, private firms

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China and the Rise of Law-Proof Insiders

European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper 557/2020
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2021
Jesse M. Fried and Ehud Kamar
Harvard Law School and Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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China, Corporate Governance, Securities Law, Corporate Law, Enforcement, Cross-Listing, Bonding

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Hands-Off Options

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 61, pp. 453-474, 2008, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1091068
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 07 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2011
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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Executive compensation, stock options, insider trading, earnings manipulation

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Excess Pay and the Dodd-Frank Clawback

Director Notes, No. DN-V3N20, pp. 1-8, October 2011
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Nov 2011
Jesse M. Fried and Nitzan Shilon
Harvard Law School and Peking University School of Transnational Law
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Dodd-Frank, clawback, executive compensation, bonuses, stock options, restricted stock, Sarbanes-Oxley

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Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?

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Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?

NBER Working Paper No. w8661
Number of pages: 113 Posted: 14 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2021
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
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Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?

Number of pages: 115 Posted: 17 Jan 2002
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried and David I. Walker
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law
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Executive compensation, stock options, corporate governance, private benefits of control, agency costs, rent extraction

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Executory Contracts and Performance Decisions in Bankruptcy

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 46, pp. 517-574, 1996
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 08 Apr 1997 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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executory contracts, bankruptcy, inefficient breach

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Amicus Brief of Law and Finance Professors in Verition Partners v. Aruba Networks (Appraisal Lawsuit)

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Jan 2019
Brian J. Broughman, Audra L. Boone, Albert H. Choi, Jesse M. Fried, Mira Ganor, Antonio J. Macias and Noah Stoffman
Vanderbilt University Law School, Texas Christian University - M.J. Neeley School of Business, University of Michigan Law School, Harvard Law School, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, Baylor University and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance
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Appraisal, Efficient Market Hypothesis, Mergers

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Powering Preemptive Rights with Presubscription Disclosure

Chapter in Luca Enriques and Tobias H. Tröger, eds., The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)., European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 418/2018, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 19-06
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2020
Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School
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Controlling shareholder, tunneling, equity issuance, equity issue, equity tunneling, preemptive rights, minority shareholders, public shareholders, rights offers, rights issues, private firms

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repurchases, buybacks, equity issuances, investment, R&D, insider trading, manipulation, disclosure

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How to Tie Equity Compensation to Long-Term Results

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 99-106, Winter 2010
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 31 Mar 2010
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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Concentration in the Israeli Economy and Bank Investment in Nonfinancial Companies

Posted: 05 Sep 1997
Lucian A. Bebchuk, Louis Kaplow and Jesse M. Fried
Harvard Law School, Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School

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