Sanjai Bhagat
Sanjai Bhagat is the Professor of Finance at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He serves as an independent director on corporate boards, and advises various government agencies on corporate finance and corporate governance.[1]
Career
Bhagat graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology -Delhi, before attending the University of Rochester for an MBA then earning a PhD in Finance at the University of Washington.
He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah; he then joined the University of Washington's Foster School of Business faculty as a visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance. After teaching at the University of Chicago (Chicago Booth) as a visiting Associate Professor of Finance, he joined the Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado. He has also worked at the Economics department at Princeton University as a Visiting Professor, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.[2]
At the Leeds School of Business, he was the founding Director of the Burridge Center for Securities Analysis & Valuation.[3]
Research work
Bhagat's research focuses on corporate governance, value-creating acquisitions, IPO valuation, new venture finance, executive compensation, ESG, capitalism and rule of law. His paper, "Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance" was awarded the Paper of the Decade Award for being the most impactful paper in the Journal of Corporate Finance during 2008–2018.[4] Bhagat has written extensively on executive pay and board of directors compensation and equity.[5][6]
His paper "The Promise and Perils of Corporate Governance Indices",[7] was selected as one of the "Best Corporate and Securities Articles" by the Vanderbilt Law School publication Corporate Practice Commentator.[8] The European Corporate Governance Institute also awarded the article the De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize for best paper.[9][10] He is the author of Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital, which argues that future financial crises can be averted by changing incentive contracts for top executives and by requiring banks to hold larger cash reserves.[11]
Recent op-eds on ESG, IPO valuation, corporate finance, executive compensation
Shareholders vs. Stakeholders: The Role of Corporate Directors https://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/bhagat/DirectorsAndBoards-December-2020.pdf
Directors of Successful Startups http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/bhagat/NACD-Directorship-JulyAug2020-Bhagat.pdf
IPOs and Directors https://www.directorsandboards.com/articles/singlewhat-directors-can-learn-ipos
Why Do Venture Capitalists Use Such High Discount Rates? http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/JRF-08-2013-0055
Why Executive Compensation Clawbacks Don’t Work https://hbr.org/2021/03/why-executive-compensation-clawbacks-dont-work?ab=hero-subleft-1
Coronavirus Stimulus, Executive Compensation, And Share Repurchase https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/03/27/coronavirus_stimulus_executive_compensation_and_share_repurchase_487727.html
Executive Compensation: The Case For Restricted Equity http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/bhagat/Bhagat-NACD-Directorship-Magazine-JanuaryFebruary-2017.pdf
Relational Investing And Company Performance https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-6803.2004.00075.x
Business Uncertainty During Pandemic Increases Forecasts of Unemployment https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/22/business-uncertainty-during-pandemic-increases-for/
Outsourcing Manufacturing to China Endangers U.S. Security and Public Health https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/13/outsourcing-manufacturing-to-china-endangers-us-se/
How to Prepare America's Banks for the Next Financial Crisis https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/328357-how-to-prepare-americas-banks-for-the-next-financial-crisis
Rule of Law Leads to More Growth And Less Inequality https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2020/09/22/rule_of_law_leads_to_more_growth_less_inequality_578190.html
References
- ^ "Sanjai Bhagat". Leeds School of Business. 7 May 2014.
- ^ "What is the role of the corporation? My long-read Q&A with Sanjai Bhagat". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. 25 September 2020.
- ^ "CU-Boulder Conference To Forecast Stock Market Returns Through 2025". CU Boulder Today. 29 August 2000. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ "25th Anniversary Award and Decade Award - News - Elsevier". Elsevier. 18 April 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-04-18.
- ^ Bhagat, Sanjai (3 May 2017). "Board Directors Should Be Paid Only in Equity". Harvard Business Review.
- ^ "Exclusive: Novavax Executives Could Get Big Payday Even if Vaccine Fails". The New York Times. Reuters. 22 July 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ Bhagat, Sanjai; Bolton, Brian; Romano, Roberta (2008). "The Promise and Peril of Corporate Governance Indices". Columbia Law Review. 108: 1803.
- ^ Leiter, Brian. "Brian Leiter's Law School Reports". leiterlawschool.typepad.com.
- ^ "2008 Prize winners". ECGI. 29 June 2018.
- ^ "People on the move". The Denver Post. 27 May 2010.
- ^ Bhagat, Sanjai (2017). "Financial crisis, corporate governance, and bank capital". Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Sanjai Bhagat publications indexed by Google Scholar
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