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SEC Commissioner In Heated "He Said, She Said" Battle With Yale Professor Over Harvard Shareholder Rights Program

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Mark Melin
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In a growing battle of “he said, she said,” Yale University Professor Jonathan Macey defends Harvard University, calling allegations from Securities and Exchange Commissioner (SEC) Dan Gallagher and Stanford Professor Joseph Grundfest “flip-flops.”

SEC Commissioner In Heated "He Said, She Said" Battle With Yale Professor Over Harvard Shareholder Rights Program

Macey defends Harvard Shareholder Rights Program from SEC Commissioner

Macey took to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance to publicly flog Gallagher in particular, while defending the Harvard Shareholder Rights Program (SRP), which advocates to eliminate staggered board of director terms that impede acquisitions.  A staggered election...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.