As the Harvard-led academic crowd continues to fire salvos at a Republican Securities and Exchange Commission chairperson, the debate over what will either benefit corporate management, keeping board of director positions more secure, or activist investors such as Bill Ackman, making board structures weaker, hangs in the balance. Boston University Law School Professor Tamar Frankel was the latest to fire a salvo directly at SEC Commissioner Dan Gallagher. In a post on titled “What Sitting Commissioners Should and Shouldn’t Do,” Frankel again used a Harvard Law School blog to launch his attack of Commissioner Gallagher. Spat between SEC commissioner and…
SEC Commissioner Takes Incoming Fire From Multiple Sources in Harvard Spat
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.