| The Impact of a Principles-Based Approach to Director Gender Diversity Policy | Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance’s blog | | https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/09/24/the-impact-of-a-principles-based-approach-to-director-gender-diversity-policy/ | |
| Trading in Textbooks for Newspapers | Directors&Boards Newsletter | | https://www.directorsandboards.com/articles/singletrading-textbooks-newspapers | |
| T-Mobile's eccentric CEO isn't the right person to lead WeWork | CNN Perspectives | | https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/perspectives/wework-adam-neumann-john-legere/index.html | |
| WeWork for ADam Neumann | Ethical Boardroom Magazine, Autumn 2019 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/EB_Autum2019_CharlesElson_DPS.pdf | |
| THE PURPOSE DEBATE Three Problems With the Stakeholder Theory | Directors & Boards 2019 Third Quarter | | https://www.directorsandboards.com/articles/singlepurpose-debate-three-problems-stakeholder-theory | |
| SOX’s Financial-Expert Requirement 15 Years Later | Directors & Boards Magazine Annual Report 2018 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/DBAR18_ACFE.pdf | |
| Unequal Voting and the Business Judgement Rule | Harvard law School Forum on Corporate Govenance and Financial Regulation | | https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/04/07/unequal-voting-and-the-business-judgment-rule/ | |
| Snap's Not Looking to Chat with Shareholders | Directors and Boards Magazine, Fourth Quarter 2017 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/SnapChat DB Article DEC 1 2017.pdf | |
| "On Leadership: An Interview with Kenneth C. Frazier, President & CEO of Merck & Co. Inc. | ACC (2017) | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/ACC-Ken_Frazier-QA-Article-MGP-11.16.17-sm1.pdf | |
| Snap's Not Looking to Chat with Shareholders | Diredtors & Boards electronic magazine | | https://www.directorsandboards.com/news/snap%E2%80%99s-not-looking-chat-shareholders | |
| E. Merrick Dodd and the Rise and Fall of Corporate Stakeholder Theory | 72 Business Lawyer 735 ( Summer 2017) | | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2966331 | |
| ExxonMobil and the 'Rexit' retirement package | Ethical Boardroom | | | |
| How Delaware May Be Dethroned and Why It Should Not | Harvard Law School Froum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/2016-03-31-how-delaware-may-be-dethroned-and-why-it-should-not_2.pdf | |
| Climate change and the corporate board: Too hot not to handle? | Directors & Boards magazine, First Quarter 2017 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/DB1Q17_Elson_Climate%20Competent.pdf | |
| The Government’s giant shadow in the boardroom (PDF) | Directors & Boards magazine, Second Quarter 2016 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Directors-_Boards_Q2-2016_Govt-Shadow-in-Boardroom.pdf | |
| FMA Roundtable on New Developments in European Corporate Governance | 29 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 50 (Winer 2017) | | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jacf.12220/epdf | |
| The Bug at Volkswagen: Lessons in Co-Determination, Ownership and Board Structure | co-authored with Craig K. Ferrere and Nicholas Goossen— 27 JOURNAL OF APPLIED CORPORATE FINANCE 36 (2015) | the-bug-at-volkswagen | | |
| The Compliance Conundrum (PDF) | Ethisphere, Fall 2015 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/The-Compliance-Conundrum_Ethisphere.pdf | |
| The pay ratio rule: Get ready, get going (PDF) | Directors & Boards magazine, Third Quarter 2014 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Elson-Q3-2014_Pay-Raio-Rule.pdf | |
| Comment Letter – Farm Credit Administration (PDF) | April 29, 2014 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Comment-Letter_Farm-Credit-Administration_April-2014.pdf | |
| William P. Lauder on governing the controlled corporation (PDF) | Directors & Boards magazine, Annual Report 2014 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/AR-2014-Lauder-article.pdf | |
| A New Kind of Captured Board | Directors & Boards magazine, First Quarter 2014 | captured-board | | |
| Comment Letter – Securities and Exchange Commission (Pay Ratio Disclosure) (PDF) | December 4, 2013 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Comment-Letter-Pay-ratio-disclosure.pdf | |
| Surplus, Agency Theory and the Hobbesian Corporation (PDF) | Wake Forest Law Review, Fall 2013 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Surplus-Agency-Theory-and-the-Hobbesian-Corporation_091113.pdf | |
| Executive Superstars, Peer Groups and Overcompensation | Journal of Corporation Law, Spring 2013 | executives-superstars | | |
| Peer Groups – Understanding CEO Compensation and a Proposal for a New Approach (PDF) | Directors Notes, The Conference Board, April 2013 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Peer-Groups_Directors-Notes.pdf | |
| When Searching for a CEO, there’s No Place Like Home | The Wasll Street Journal, 10/29/12 | | https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390444620104578008560469526162 | |
| Dual Class Stock: Governance at the Edge (PDF) | Directors & Boards magazine, Third Quarter 2012 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/DB-Dual-Shares-Q3-2012-Cover-and-Article.pdf | |
| Compensation and the Myth of the Corporate Superstar | Harvard Business Review, February 1, 2012 | | https://hbr.org/2012/02/compensation-and-the-myth-of-t | |
| What is a CEO worth? Don’t look to peers (PDF) | Directors & Boards, Q3 2011 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Directors-Boards-What-is-a-CEO-Worth.pdf | |
| Report of the Round Table on Proxy Governance (PDF) | August 2011 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Roundtable_end-to-end-vote-confirmation.pdf | |
| Punting Peer Groups: Resolving the Compensation Conundrum (PDF) | BNA Corporate Governance Report | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Punting-Peer-Groups.pdf | |
| Report of the Study Group on Corporate Boards “Bridging Board Gaps” (PDF) | 2011 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Bridging-Board-Gaps_StudyGroupFINALprinterversion1-1.pdf | |
| The Great Divide (PDF) | Directors & Boards magazine, First Quarter 2010 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/DB-Great-Divide-Cover-Q1-2010-2-Cover-and-Article.pdf | |
| Director term limits come up for review (PDF) | Directors & Boards magazine, Second Quarter 2008 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/DB-Ray-Troubh-Term-Limits-Cover-and-Article.pdf | |
| Ed Woolard: A life in governance (PDF) | Directors & Boards, Fall 2000 | | /content-sub-site/Documents/For-Publications/Woolard-Article.pdf | |