Interdisciplinary Research
Governance & Principled Leadership
The Governance & Principled Leadership (G&PL) Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary initiative designed to encourage and promote interdisciplinary research on governance and leadership themes. Over 20 faculty members from accounting, business law, finance, management, and marketing are part of the cluster. Activities of the cluster include hosting conferences and seminars, promoting and disseminating the faculty’s research, funding research projects, and engaging with practitioners and policy-makers to address the most pressing governance and leadership issues affecting business and society.
International Corporate Governance Society conference
In November 2022, the G&PL cluster hosted the 8th International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Conference, which was attended by governance scholars and practitioners around the world. The theme of the conference was "Corporate Governance in a Digital Era: Challenges and Opportunities." The conference agenda can be viewed here.
Annual Corporate Governance Conference
The G&PL cluster co-organizes and co-hosts the Annual Corporate Governance Conference with Broadridge Financial Solutions. The conference brings together academics, institutional investors, boards, policy-makers, and governance professionals to discuss the key governance challenges facing corporations. In addition to discussing the hot topics of each proxy season, the conference has focused on measurement and reporting challenges for sustainable business, corporate purpose, ESG in the boardroom, diversity, inclusion and equity issues (the “S” in ESG), virtual shareholder meetings, board refreshment and diversity, human capital management, gender pay gap, and the business impact of climate change.
Agendas for past conferences:
Past keynote speakers include:
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Jeffrey Hales, University of Texas at Austin, Chair Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
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Rob J. Jackson, NYU Law school, former SEC Commissioner
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George Serafeim, Harvard Business School, leading expert on sustainable business
- Paul Washington, The Conference Board ESG Center
G&PL Workshop Series
The G&PL Cluster runs a GP&L Workshop Series, featuring research presentations by faculty from all over the world. Past presenters include by Eugene Soltes (Harvard Business School, April 2019); Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics, December 2019); Alex Edmans (London Business School, January 2020); Michele Gelfand (University of Maryland, February 2020); Caroline Flammer (Boston University, February 2021); Ioannis Ioannou (London Business School, February 2021); Amy Hillman (Arizona State University), November 2022; April Klein (New York University), December 2022; Wei Jiang (Emory University) March 2023; Caroline Flammer (Columbia University), March 2023; Mary Nunter Mc Donnell (University of Pennsylvania), February 2024; and Todd Milbourn (Washington St. Louis), April 2024.
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Program
The G&PL Cluster also runs a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Program. Our first Scholar-in-Residence was George Serafeim (Harvard Business School), a leading expert on business sustainability. Our second Scholar-in-Residence will be April Klein (NYU), a leading expert on corporate governance
Other Initiatives
Every year, in collaboration with the Johnson A. Edosomwan Leadership Institute, the G&PL Cluster runs a research proposal competition and winners of the competition receive research funding. Examples of topics funded by the cluster are the effect of cultural background on perceptions of leader incivility, political discourse at work, and corporate fake news on social media.
Members

Fabrizio Ferri

Wei Shi

Gennaro Bernile

Khrystyna Bochkay

Timothy R. Burch

Indraneel Chakraborty

Vidhi Chhaochharia

Cecily Cooper

Marie Dasborough

Caglar Irmak

Daniele Macciocchi
Daniele Macciocchi joined the faculty of Miami Herbert Business School in 2020. His research interests focus on corporate governance and the role of information in shaping financial contracts. Macciocchi's research has been presented at numerous international and national conferences and has been published in the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. Media mentions to note include, among others, The Financial Times, Reuters, United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, London Business School Review, Chicago Booth Review, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, The Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog.

Miguel Minutti-Meza

Dhananjay Nanda

Linda Neider

Terri Scandura

Chester Schriesheim

Kay Tatum
