1)   What inherent characteristic of corporations creates the need for a system of checks on manager behavior?

2. What are some examples of agency problems?

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the corporate organizational structure?

4. What is the role of the board of directors in corporate governance?

5. How does a board become captured by a CEO?

6. What role do security analysts play in monitoring?

7.  How are lenders part of corporate governance?

8. What is a whistleblower?

9.  What are the advantages and disadvantages of increasing the options granted to CEOs?

10. Is it necessarily true that increasing managerial ownership stakes will improve firm performance?

11.  How can proxy contests be used to overcome a captured board?

12.  What is a say-on-pay vote?

13. What are a board’s options when confronted with dissident shareholders?