EPISODE · May 12, 2020 · 57 MIN
Joe Grundfest: "Without Luck, Nothing Good Happens."
from Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein · host Pacifica Global, LLC
Start of Episode [1:31] Luck and skill: "Without luck nothing good happens" [3:21] Joe's experience as a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission [5:33] Transition from the S.E.C. to Stanford Law School [8:16] The story of Financial Engines [11:04] Taking Financial Engines private [14:54] The Oracle Derivative Litigation Case (2003) [17:17] The KKR board [20:19] The story of Stanford's Directors' College [23:31] Federal-forum selection charter provisions and the Sciabacucchi case [27:34] Elon Musk's coverage of D&O insurance for Tesla directors [32:24] The rise of stakeholder capitalism and ESG [37:55] Global warming [40:38] Conflicts of interests in public and private companies [43:17] Control in startups [48:28] Rapid-fire questions [50:57] Joseph A. Grundfest is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and is a Senior Faculty of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. Professor Grundfest is a nationally prominent expert on capital markets, corporate governance, and securities litigation. __ Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License --- Stay connected with Boardroom Governance: Website: boardroom-governance.com Newsletter: Boardroom Governance on Substack YouTube: Boardroom Governance LinkedIn: Evan Epstein X: @evanepstein Subscribe to the Boardroom Governance newsletter for governance insights and exclusive subscriber content: evanepstein.substack.com --- Music: “Seeing The Future” by Dexter Britain, via Free Music Archive, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
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In this inaugural episode, I talk with Joe Grundfest, the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School, about his career and experience as a securities regulator, scholar, founder, corporate director and legal advisor. We touched on several governance hot topics, such as his pivotal role with federal-forum selection charter provisions and the Sciabacucchi case, Elon Musk's coverage of D&O insurance for Tesla directors, the rise of stakeholder capitalism and ESG, and distinctions between public and private (venture-backed) company governance. We finished with a round of rapid-fire questions with insights on Joe's overall approach to life.
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