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Nicholas Benes: "We Need to Redesign the Corporation to Provide Better Incentives"


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  1. Start of interview [1:40]
  2. Nick's "origin story", from New Jersey to California to Japan [3:33]
  3. His first board experience with Alps Mapping ('00-'06) [7:34]
  4. Why he founded the Board Director Training Institute of Japan in 2009 [12:40]
  5. His WSJ article on "Japan's Coming Shareholder Revolution" (2001)  [19:42]
  6. Japan's keiretsu system ("a defensive cross-shareholding wall") [21:04]
  7. The historical resistance against having independent directors in Japan companies [23:25]
  8. The effect of the ACCJ's white paper that led to Japan's Stewardship Code (2014) and Corporate Governance Code (2015) [24:40]
  9. Why Japan needed a corporate governance code (to enhance corporate disclosure) [32:20]
  10. Japan's change in board composition (now one third are independent directors) [34:52]
  11. His take on executive pay, particularly around the approval of "Say-on-Pay" in the US and distinctions with exec comp in Japan [36:51]
  12.  His take on ESG and "stakeholder capitalism" [39:50]
  13. Nick's opinion of dual class share structures: "I dislike them vehemently, I think they make a mockery of the concept of shareholder democracy" [45:34]
  14. Nick's recent proposal: "Redesigning corporations: Incentives Matter" (published in Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance) [47:50]
  15. The use of blockchain technology to track beneficial share ownership [57:17]
  16. How to find Nicholas Benes online:
    1. Website: https://bdti.or.jp/en/
    2. Email: [email protected] 
    3. Twitter: @benesjp 

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