Research

My research focuses on corporate governance. Here are a few of my projects:


Publications:
Published in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2016
Featured in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (2/22/16)

Forthcoming in the Journal of Accounting and Economics


Working Papers:

Does Diversity Pay in the Boardroom? (with Laura Field and Adam Yore)
Full text available at SSRN
Featured in The Wall Street Journal (8/2/2016), Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation (8/4/16), Financial Times Agenda (9/29/2016), Fortune (1/11/2017)
Semi-finalist for Best Corporate Finance Paper at FMA (2017)
Presented at the Financial Institutions, Regulation, and Corporate Governance Conference (2017), Eastern Finance Association (2017), Northern Finance Association (2017), Financial Management Association (2017), and Southern Finance Association (2017)
Scheduled for presentation at SFS Cavalcade (2018)

External Monitoring and Returns to Hedge Fund Activist Campaigns (with Ryan Flugum)
Full text available at SSRN
Presented at Financial Management Association (2017)

Managerial Reliance on the Retail Shareholder Vote: Evidence from Proxy Delivery Methods (with Choonsik Lee)
Full text available at SSRN
Presented at Financial Management Association (2016)
Featured in The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog (5/29/2017), Oxford Law School Business Law Blog (6/13/2017), Corporate Secretary (7/27/2017)
Revise and Resubmit at Management Science