Virtual Shareholder Meetings

The authors thank Tara Bhandari and Shiva Rajgopal (discussant) as well as workshop participants at Drexel University (Gupta Governance Seminar Series), the 2021 Burton conference (Columbia Business School), the 4th Greater Boston Corporate Governance Workshop, Florida International University, the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, George Washington University, Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), the University of Calgary, the University of Connecticut, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Toronto for their comments; Cathy Conlon and Katerina Katolis at Broadridge Financial Solutions for useful conversations on virtual shareholder meetings and for sharing data on state laws related to virtual shareholder meetings; and Douglas Chia (Soundboard Governance) and Carl T. Hargberg (Carl T. Hagberg & Associates) for their insights on the practice of annual shareholder meetings. The authors also acknowledge Claudio Ferri, Dan Li, Zeyu Ou, and Yini Wang for excellent research assistance.