Cases in Point

Chapter 1

Shlensky v. Wrigley(1968)

Corporate Crime and Punishment

A UK Attempt to Redefine Corporate Manslaughter

What Happens When You Let Corporations Choose their Own Regulators? Just What You Would Expect

Chrysler

The Voluntary Restraint Agreement in the Auto Industry

Corporate Political Donations in the UK and the US

“Delaware Puts Out”

The Years of Accounting Dangerously

Protection, Pennsylvania Style

The “Good,” the “Bad,” and the Real

Green Tree Financial

FASB's Treatment of Stock Options

The Battle of the Theme Parks

Daimler-Benz and the New York Stock Exchange

Johnson & Johnson

Socially Responsible Investing

Price Fixing

Chapter 2

Mis-Trust: The Mysterious Case of the Hearst Will

How Much is a Fiduciary Worth – And Can He Charge More than That?

Of Vouchers and Values – Robert A.G. Monks Visits Vaclav Havel

Standard Oil and the Arrival of Big Business

Partnership versus Corporation

Annual Shareholder Meetings

The Conflicted Owner

When is the Employee Stock Plan Obligated to Step in or Sell?

Who Owns Hershey?

F&C Advises Its Clients to Vote Against Excessive Compensation – At F&C

Junior Invests in Boothbay Harbor

One Share, One Vote

Refco

Hermes

R.P. Scherer and Citicorp

T. Rowe Price and Texaco

Director Resignations

Interlocking Directors

The Alumni Protest Fees Paid to Managers of the Harvard Endowment

The Rose Foundation Takes on Maxxam

Reader's Digest

Eating the Seed Corn: NY's Pension Fund Borrows from Itself

Maine State Retirement System

CalPERS ...

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