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In the media

Press release

• Shareholder Activism in the UK: A Clinical Study (PDF document, 90kb)

Hail Britannia: UK Shareholder Activism Can Get Results
13th February 2006

• Launch of Centre for Corporate Governance (PDF document, 84kb)

Questioning Shareholder Activism: Groundbreaking Research Provides for the First Time Significant Evidence on How Shareholder Activism Can Influence Shareholder Returns
9th February 2006

• Creation of Centre for Corporate Governance (PDF document, 21kb)

London Business School launches new Centre for Corporate Governance
12th December 2005

Press coverage

• Private Equity: Boom or Bust? (PDF document, 420kb)

Viral V. Acharya, Julian Franks and Henri Servaes
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ( A Morgan Stanley Publication)
Fall 2007

• Returns to Shareholder Activism: Evidence from a Clinical Study of the Hermes UK Focus Fund

Marco Becht, Julian Franks, Colin Mayer and Stefano Rossi
4th December 2006

• Different votes for different folks (PDF document, 753kb)

Colin Mayer & Julian Franks
Financial Times
20th October 2006

• The Right Conditions for Trust Between Business

Contribution to the Financial Times "Mastering Financial Management" series:
Professor Julian Franks & Professor Colin Mayer
19th June 2006

• London Business School Roundtable on Shareholder Activism in the UK (PDF document, 2.1mb)

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (A Morgan Stanley publication)
Spring 2006