Mira Ganor

Professor Ganor’s interests lie in the intersection of law and business. Her research focuses on corporate governance and agency costs in publicly traded firms as well as on venture capital and private equity. Professor Ganor studies the efficiency of corporate management and its practices. She is especially interested in identifying particular managerial behavior patterns and understanding the motivations behind them and their effects on the shareholders and on society’s welfare. Her research has covered a variety of corporate practices, such as offers of perpetual thrones in merger transactions, dismantling staggered boards, the use of top-up options in tender offers, and maintaining particularly large corporate cash holdings. Professor Ganor conducts interdisciplinary scholarship that combines empirical and statistical methods with legal and economic analysis to probe the efficiency of the corporate governance system. Professor Ganor is also studying rules and regulations that affect innovation and investment in technology.

The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation and the Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets have featured invited posts on her work, which can be found here:  https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/contributor/mira-ganor/ and here: https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2020/08/06/the-case-for-contingent-shareholder-action/.