Background
Blair, Margaret Mendenhall was born on November 8, 1950 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Harold Leroy and Mary Winifred (Simmons) Mendenhall.
( Who should be allowed to call the shots in the boardroo...)
Who should be allowed to call the shots in the boardrooms of U. S. Corporations? And what difference does it make for their growth and profitability? In the last decade, these issues have moved to the center of policy debates about the time horizons and competitiveness of U.S. companies. This book is an indispensable guide through the historical, legal, and institutional background for these corporate governance debates. It explains three broad views on the relationship among the governance, performance, and competitiveness of corporations, and examines the intellectual history, politics, and empirical evidence behind each argument. It also considers the effect that two trends will have on corporate governance: the growth and power of public employees' pension funds and the increase in the economic activity that comes from specialized services and customized production. Blair asserts that companies need to experiment with different governance arrangements, such as choosing directors to represent particular constituencies, or making more radical arrangements like leveraged buyouts or worker-owned companies. Public policy should encourage, or at least not impede, such experimentation.
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(Corporations are the productive engine of market economie...)
Corporations are the productive engine of market economies. Yet the rules by which the wealth generated by corporations gets divided between the providers of financial capital and the providers of human capital are poorly understood. In this colloquium, a group of economists, social scientists, lawyers, labor relations specialists, business executives, and executives of financial institutions debate questions about the allocation of risks, returns, and rights in corporations that were raised in Margaret Blair's prior book, Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century (Brookings, 1995). In addition to Margaret Blair, participants include Bernard Aidinoff, Amatai Etzioni, Ronald Gilson, Martin Ginsburg, Mark Goyder, Oliver Hart, Bruce Householder, Tony Jackson, Bevis Longstreth, Jonathan Low, Bruce MacLaury, Ira Millstein, Nell Minow, Charles Rossotti, Charles Schultze, Kenneth West, and Sidney Winter. Roswell Perkins, of the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, served as moderator.
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(In this companion handbook to The Deal Decade: What Takeo...)
In this companion handbook to The Deal Decade: What Takeovers and Leveraged Buyouts mean for Corporate Governance, Margaret Blair and Girish Uppal present summary statistics and details on the corporate restructuring movement of the 1980s. The authors summarize data from private buyouts, junk bond issuances, and aggregate changes in corporate debt. They also report on the changing patterns of corporate ownership, shareholder activism, and changes in the law affecting takeovers. Finally, they put the 1980s into historical context by presenting data tracking merger and acquisition activity since 1955.
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Blair, Margaret Mendenhall was born on November 8, 1950 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Harold Leroy and Mary Winifred (Simmons) Mendenhall.
Bachelor, University Oklahoma, 1973. Postgraduate, Harvard University, 1983. Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1989.
Reporter Houston Chronicle, 1973-1975. Reporter, bureau manager Fairchild Publication, Houston, 1975-1977. Correspondent Business Week, 1977-1979, bureau chief, 1979-1982.
Economist Federal Reserve Bank New York, New York City, 1985. Research assistant Yale University, New Haven, 1985-1986, lecturer, 1986-1987. Research associate Brookings Institution, Washington, 1987-1994, senior fellow, 1995-1999.
Director Brookings Project on Corps. and Human Capital, 1996-1999. Co-director Brookings Project on Intangible Sources of Value, 1998-2001. Research director, visiting professor Sloan-GULC project business institute Georgetown University Law Center, 2000—2004.
Professor law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 2004. Adjunct faculty University Maryland College Business and Management, 1993—1994. Visiting professor Georgetown University Law Center, 1996—2004.
Steering committee, rapporteur Woodstock Seminar Series on Business Ethics, Washington, 1989—1990. Subcoun. on capital allocation Competitiveness Policy Council, 1993—1996. Rapporteur Salzburg (Austria) Seminar on International Finance Markets, 1989.
Steering committee time horizons project Council on Competitiveness, Washington, 1990. Member Task Force on Restructuring America's Labor Market Institutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Sloan School Management, 1997—2001, World Economic Forum Corporation Performance Council, 1999—2003. Non-resident senior fellow Brookings Institution, 2000—2004.
Board advisors George Washington University Sloan Program on Business and Society, 1998—2002. Trustee Woodstock Theological Center, 2001—2004. Board director Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production.
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(Corporations are the productive engine of market economie...)
Volunteer Big Sisters Washington Metropolitan Area, 1989-1992. Organizer neighborhood watch group, Washington, 1990. Member board advisors Center for Community Interest, 1993-1998.
Member board director Christ Education Rock Spring United Church Christ, 2000-2003. Member Arlington County Advisory Council Instruction, 1999-2003. Member of American Bar Association (associate), American Law Economics Association, American Economic Association.
Married Forrest Randall Blair, May 29, 1971 (divorced September 1979). Married Roger Lisle Conner, June 22, 1991. 1 child, Elizabeth LeeAnn Conner.