America Goes to the Moon, and Lipton Invents the “Marty Memo”
M&A During the Me Decade: Real World Experiences With Hostile Takeovers Shape Lipton’s View of the Proper Role of Corporations in Society
The McGraw-Hill Takeover Defense And Its Effect On Lipton’s Embrace of Stakeholder Corporate Governance
Lipton Creates an Intellectual Framework Justifying Takeover Defense: Takeover Bids in the Target’s Boardroom
Back to the Boardroom: Lipton Puts His Ideas About Takeover Practice Into Practice
Short-Termism and the Takeover Era
Origins of The Rights Plan
Takeover Defense Comes to Delaware: Unocal – Moran – Revlon
The Validity of the Flip-In Pills Is Tested and Established
Institutional Investors and The Rights Plan
The Anti-Pill Campaign
In The Wake of CTS, Lipton Embraces The Flip-In and Recommends It To Clients
Interco and Pillsbury
Time/Warner and QVC: The Delaware Supreme Court Speaks
Silver Anniversary
Institutional Investors and Independent Boards
The Quinquennial Election of Directors
A Modest Proposal
The Rise of the Independent Board
Addressing the Failures of Oversight at Enron and WorldCom
Implementing Good Governance to Preserve the Business Judgement Rule and Enhance Corporate Integrity
M&A In the 2000s
The Twentieth Anniversary of The Poison Pill: University of Chicago Symposium
“Takeover Bids in the Target’s Boardroom” Twenty-Five Years Later: Leading Thinkers Reflect on Lipton’s Seminal Work
Shareholder Activism and the Role of Institutional Investors
Activist Threats and Corporate Governance in Crisis
Airgas and its Aftermath: The Poison Pill Lives in Law, But Declines in Relevance
An Emerging New Paradigm of Investor Engagement
Corporate Purpose Re-emerges as a Salient Topic in the Twenty-First Century