Media Coverage

• The Underside of Hedge Fund Activism: Looting the Pension Fund, John C. Coffee, Jr., Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, April 14, 2021.
  


• Does Advertising Improve Access to Capital for Small Businesses? Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, August 28, 2020.
  


• Academic Literature Review: Does Advertising Improve Access to Capital for Small Businesses? – Evidence from the JOBS Act, Jack Mill, Audit Analytics Blog, August 12, 2020.
  


• Do Shareholder Lawsuits Deter Insider Trading? Evidence from Universal Demand Laws, NYU Law School Compliance & Enforcement Blog, January 15, 2020.
  


• Does Litigation Risk Deter Insider Trading? Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, December 23, 2019.
  


• The Dark Side of Hedge Fund Activism: Evidence from Employee Pension Plans, Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, December 12, 2019.
  


• Money Stuff: 10-K tone, Matt Levine, Bloomberg, August 27, 2019.
  


• Is Positive Sentiment in Corporate Annual Reports Informative? Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, August 26, 2019.
  


• How Hedge Fund Billionaires Loot Worker Pensions, Jan Weir, Rantt Media,  August 19, 2019.
  


• Are activists fleecing pensions to fluff shareholder wealth? Barclay's Insider Report, August 2017.
  


• Do Women Stay Out of Trouble? Blog, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum, 2015.
  


• Do Women Stay Out of Trouble? Evidence from Corporate Litigation. Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog: 2015.
  


• Daily Academic Alpha: Why Women should make MORE than Men…. Wesley R. Gray, Alpha Architect blog: July 17, 2015.
  


• More female executives may lead to fewer lawsuits. Amy Lee Rosen, Congressional Quarterly CQ Roll Call, July 22, 2015.
  


• Does Hiring M&A Advisers Matter for Private Sellers?, Blog, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum, May 13, 2014.
  


• Insider Trading in Takeover Targets, Blog, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum, April 2, 2012.
  


• An Insider Trading Loophole Congress Didn’t Close, Jack Hough, SmartMoney, March 22, 2012. (Also reported in Yahoo! Finance, March 23, 2012.)
  


• 5 Warning Signs for IPOs, Dawn Kawamoto, The Motley Fool, October 14, 2011.
  


• The Impact of Common Advisors on Mergers and Acquisitions, Blog, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum, July 20, 2011.
  


• UA professor studies causes, consequences of corporate infighting, Patrick Rupinski, Tuscaloosa News, July 12, 2009.
  


• Board Blow-Ups Driven by Disputes Over ‘Processes’, Katie Wagner, Financial Times Agenda, May 18, 2009.
  


• Is a restatement a CFO’s Kiss of Death? Roy Harris, CFO.com, November 19, 2007.
  


• Off-key analysts, Aaron Pressman, Business Week, August 15, 2005, p. 94.
  


• Two named to HealthSouth board of directors, Daniel Connolly, Birmingham Post-Herald, July 3, 2005.
  


• Are CEOs worth big pay packages? Brian Lawson, The Huntsville Times, June 12, 2005.
  


• Experts: HealthSouth showing positive signs, Jamie Kizzire, Birmingham Post-Herald, December 3, 2004.
  


• HealthSouth report confirms fraud scale, Jamie Kizzire, Birmingham Post-Herald, June 2, 2004.
  


• Will HealthSouth board face inquiry? Feds would have to prove negligence, Daniel Connolly, Birmingham Post-Herald, November 7, 2003.
  


• Time for boards to stock bullpens with financial experts, Phyllis Plitch, Wall Street Journal Online, July 31, 2003.
  


• In stock-picking, governance ratings may be like darts, Phyllis Plitch, Wall Street Journal Online, June 26, 2003.
  


• Key governance reforms may not cure restatements: Study, Phyllis Plitch, Wall Street Journal Online, April 17, 2003.
  


• Study finds governance reforms may not cure restatements, The Corporate Library, News Briefs, April 16-22, 2003, V. 5 (14).
  


• Accuracy of US analysts diminishes (in German), Ina Bauer, Financial Times Deutschland, August 26, 2002.