Instructors
Jesse M. Fried
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Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem
February 1, 2023
Lucian Bebchuk & Jesse Fried, Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem, in The Economic Nature of the Firm 327 (Louis Putterman & Randall S. Kroszner…
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Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse Fried, Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (Harvard Univ. Press 2004).
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Cheap-Stock Tunneling Around Preemptive Rights
February 1, 2023
Jesse M. Fried & Holger Spamann, Cheap-Stock Tunneling Around Preemptive Rights, 137 J. Fin. Econ. 353 (2020).
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Jesse M. Fried
February 1, 2023
Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, Fried was a Professor of Law…
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The SEC’S Misguided Climate Disclosure Rule Proposal
December 25, 2022
Lawrence A. Cunningham, Stephen M. Bainbridge, Jonathan Berk et al., The SEC’S Misguided Climate Disclosure Rule Proposal, 41 Banking & Fin. Servs. Pol’y Rep. 1…
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Unilever has caved to the campaign to eliminate Israel
December 20, 2022
Jesse Fried, Unilever has caved to the campaign to eliminate Israel, Telegraph (June 22, 2022).
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California Parents Say No to Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies
December 20, 2022
Lori Lowenthal Marcus & Jesse M. Fried, California Parents Say No to Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies, Wall St. J., May 13, 2022, at A15.
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The Virtues of Stock Buybacks
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C.Y. Wang, The Virtues of Stock Buybacks, Wall St. J. (Aug. 9, 2022).
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Trump’s attempt to delist China will only backfire
October 19, 2022
Jesse Fried, Trump’s Attempt to Delist China Will Only Backfire, Fin. Times, Jan 14, 2021 at 12.
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Rights Offers and Delaware Law
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Rights Offers and Delaware Law (Eur. Corp. Governance Inst., Law Working Paper No. 596, 2021).
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Stock Investors’ Returns are Exaggerated
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Paul Ma & Charles C. Y. Wang, Stock Investors’ Returns are Exaggerated (Euro. Corp. Governance Inst., Law Working Paper No. 618, 2021).
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Will Nasdaq’s Diversity Rules Harm Investors?
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Will Nasdaq’s Diversity Rules Harm Investors?, 12 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. Online, art. 1, 2021, at 1.
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The EU’s Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C.Y. Wang, The EU’s Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism, Harv. Bus. Rev. (Jan. 29, 2021).
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Short‐Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C. Y. Wang, Short‐Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU, Eur. Fin. Mgmt., Feb. 8, 2021, at 1.
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China and the Rise of Law-Proof Insiders
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Ehud Kamar, China and the Rise of Law-Proof Insiders (Eur. Corp. Governance Inst. Law Working Paper 557/2020, Feb.15, 2021).
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Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C.Y. Wang, Short-Termism, Shareholder Payouts, and Investment in the EU (Eur. Corp. Governance Inst. Law Working Paper 544/2020, Oct. 9,…
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Alibaba: A Case Study of Synthetic Control
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Ehud Kamar, Alibaba: A Case Study of Synthetic Control, 11 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 279 (2021)…
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Delisting Chinese Companies Plays Straight Into Their Hands
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Delisting Chinese Companies Plays Straight Into Their Hands, FT.com (June 1, 2020).
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Advance Disclosure of Managers’ Stock Trades: A Proposal to Improve Executive Compensation
October 19, 2022
Jesse Fried, Advance Disclosure of Managers’ Stock Trades: A Proposal to Improve Executive Compensation, 3 Economists’ Voice, Oct. 1, 2006, at 1.
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Excess Pay and the Dodd-Frank Clawback
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Nitzan Shilon, Excess Pay and the Dodd-Frank Clawback, Director Notes, No. DN-V3N20, Oct. 2, 2011, at 1.
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Recouping Excess Pay via the Dodd-Frank Clawback
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Nitzan Shilon, Recouping Excess Pay via the Dodd-Frank Clawback, 1 Rivista Di Diretto Societario 2 (2012).
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The Dodd-Frank Clawback and the Problem of Excess Pay
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Nitzan Shilon, The Dodd-Frank Clawback and the Problem of Excess Pay, Corp. Board, Jan./Feb. 2012, at 15.
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Shareholders Always Come First and That’s a Good Thing
October 19, 2022
Jesse Fried, Shareholders Always Come First and That’s a Good Thing, Fin. Times, Oct. 8, 2019, at 13.
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Senators Take Aim at the Buyback Boogeyman
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C.Y. Wang, Opinion, Senators Take Aim at the Buyback Boogeyman, Bos. Globe, Feb. 20, 2019, at A11.
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Examining Corporate Priorities: The Impact of Stock Buybacks on Workers, Communities, and Investment
October 19, 2022
Examining Corporate Priorities: The Impact of Stock Buybacks on Workers, Communities, and Investment: Hearing Before the H. Subcomm. on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets…
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The Valuation and Governance Bubbles of Silicon Valley
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Jeffrey N. Gordon, The Valuation and Governance Bubbles of Silicon Valley, CLS Blue Sky Blog (Oct. 10, 2019).
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Lucian Bebchuk & Jesse Fried, Tackling the Managerial Power Problem: The Key to Improving Executive Compensation, in Inequality in the 21st Century (David Grusky &…
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Brief of Amici Curiae Professors in Support of Appellant and Reversal, Verition Partners Master Fund, Ltd. v. Aruba Networks, Inc.
October 19, 2022
Audra Boone, Brian Broughman, Albert Choi, Jesse Fried, Mira Ganor, Antonio Macias & Noah Stoffman, Brief of Amici Curiae Professors in Support of Appellant and…
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Powering Preemptive Rights with Presubscription Disclosure
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Powering Preemptive Rights with Presubscription Disclosure, in The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions (Luca Enriques & Tobias H. Tröger eds.,…
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The Real Problem With Stock Buybacks
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C.Y. Wang, The Real Problem With Stock Buybacks, Wall St. J., July 9, 2018, at R1.
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Do Founders Control Start-Up Firms that Go Public?
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Brian J. Broughman, Do Founders Control Start-Up Firms that Go Public?, 10 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 49 (2020).
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Cheap-Stock Tunneling Around Preemptive Rights
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Holger Spamann, Cheap-Stock Tunneling Around Preemptive Rights (Eur. Corp. Governance Inst. Law Working Paper No. 408/2018, June 1, 2018).
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The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Pay Tunneling
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Ehud Kamar & Yishay Yafeh, The Effect of Minority Veto Rights on Controller Pay Tunneling, 138 J. Fin. Econ. 777 (June 29,…
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Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Charles C.Y. Wang, Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?, Harv. Bus. Rev., Mar.-Apr. 2018, at 88.
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried & David I. Walker, Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents? (UC Berkeley Program in Law…
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Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues
October 19, 2022
Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse M. Fried, Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues, 17 J. Applied Corp. Fin. 8 (2005).
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Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues
October 19, 2022
Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse M. Fried, Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues, 30 J. Corp. L. 647 (2005).
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Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues
October 19, 2022
Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse M. Fried, Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues, in Foundations of Corporate Law 437 (Roberta Romano ed., 2nd ed.
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Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues
October 19, 2022
Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse M. Fried, Pay Without Performance: Overview of the Issues, in The History of Modern U.S. Corporate Governance (Brian Cheffins ed.,…
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Taking the Economic Costs of Priority Seriously
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Taking the Economic Costs of Priority Seriously, 51 Consumer Fin. L. Q. Rep. 328 (1997).
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Short-Termism and Capital Flows
October 19, 2022
Jesse Fried & Charles C.Y. Yang, Short-Termism and Capital Flows, 8 Rev. Corp. Fin. Stud. 207 (2019).
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Lucian A. Bebchuk, Louis Kaplow & Jesse M. Fried, Concentration in the Israeli Economy and Bank Investment in Nonfinancial Companies (Harv. L. Sch. John M.
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Executory Contracts and Performance Decisions in Bankruptcy
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Executory Contracts and Performance Decisions in Bankruptcy, 46 Duke L.J. 51 (1996).
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Option Backdating and its Implications
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Option Backdating and its Implications, 65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 853 (2008).
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Managers’ Fiduciary Duty Upon the Firm’s Insolvency: Accounting for Performance Creditors
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried & Alon Chaver, Managers’ Fiduciary Duty Upon the Firm’s Insolvency: Accounting for Performance Creditors, 55 Vand. L. Rev. 1813 (2002).
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Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage
October 19, 2022
Lucian A. Bebchuk & Jesse M. Fried, Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage, 30 J. Corp.
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Open Market Repurchases: Signaling or Managerial Opportunism?
October 19, 2022
Jesse M. Fried, Open Market Repurchases: Signaling or Managerial Opportunism?, 2 Theoretical Inquiries L. 865 (2001).