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Corporate Governance & Value Investors
Corporate value is often shaped by how organisations are governed and who holds influence.
In this program, you will explore how conflicts between shareholders, managers and other stakeholders affect decision making, accountability and market value.
2 Days
What to expect
This two-day program examines how conflicts between shareholders, managers, and other stakeholders can destroy or create corporate value. Focusing on governance, ownership structures, and shareholder activism, the course explores how market-based and regulatory responses reshape organisations and influence performance.
Participants develop insight into how governance arrangements, investor behaviour, and control structures affect valuation, decision making, and long-term value creation, with real-world case examples drawn from prominent Australian and international companies.
Is this course for you
This program is ideal for professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of governance and its role in creating corporate value.
This program is suited to individuals who:
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are investors or market analysts seeking to identify governance-related value creation opportunities
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are company directors or senior managers wanting deeper insight into shareholder behaviour
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work in finance or strategy and are interested in governance, valuation, and control issues
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are MBA participants completing the Creating Corporate Value sequence
What you will explore
During this program, you will explore contemporary corporate governance and capital markets issues that influence company performance, control and valuation. The program focuses on shareholder dynamics, ownership structures and governance challenges that arise across the lifecycle of public companies.
During this program, you will explore:
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Opportunities and challenges created by taking a company public
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Activism campaigns led by institutional shareholders
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Retail shareholder intervention, including voting on executive compensation
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Governance problems and valuation impacts of large controlling shareholders
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Takeovers through creeping acquisitions and contested management succession
Where this course can take you
About the
Facilitator
David Yermack has been a Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business since 1994 and is also an Adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Law. He is Director of the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business and served eight years as Chair of NYU Stern’s top-ranked Finance department.
Prof. Yermack has published research on a wide variety of topics including corporate jets, fraudulent executive compensation, CEOs’ personal real estate purchases, the fashion industry, the economics of religion and non-profit enterprises, and blockchains and cryptocurrency.
He holds AB, MA, MBD, JD, and PhD degrees from Harvard University and has been a visiting professor at UWA Business School regularly since 2009.
Prof. Yermack has previously taught versions of this program at UWA Business School in the MBA and the Honours undergraduate program. He has taught a full-semester course on these topics since the 1990s in the MBA program at the NYU Stern, where it was once named the school’s “signature elective course” by a national business publication.
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