“How Much do Investors Care About Social Responsibility?” Webinar by Monash University
Join Associate Professor Scott Hirst for the next instalment of the CLARS Law & Business Seminar Series, on “How Much do Investors Care About Social Responsibility?” – next Tuesday, 17 August 2021 at 10:00 AM AEST / 07.00 AM WIB.
In this session, Associate Professor Hirst will discuss empirical evidence on investors' willingness to sacrifice investment returns for social purposes, and how investor preferences relate to the important current debates about social responsibility, corporate purpose, and stakeholderism.
Scott Hirst is an Associate Professor of Law at Boston University. He teaches Corporations, Corporate Governance, and Mergers & Acquisitions. His research seeks to explain phenomena in corporate law and securities regulation, and inform policy making on these subjects.
The commentator will be Dean Paatsch, who co-founded Proxy Australia, a boutique proxy voting advisory service and governance researcher in 2003. He is the author of numerous opinion pieces, regulatory submissions and speeches and is a well known media commentator on governance issues.
This webinar will be moderated by Professor Jennifer Hill, Bob Baxt AO Chair, Monash Law & Director of CLARS. Professor Jennifer Hill is an internationally recognised legal scholar in the field of comparative corporate law and governance.
Register here.