Ben Means
@BenMeansBizness
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@UofSCLaw Professor focusing on family businesses and corporate governance. Interested in art and graphic design.
Joined April 2022
RT @HarvardCorpGov: Posted: Against Contractual Formalism in Shareholder Oppression Law, #corpgov.
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In a closely held corporation, there are few shareholders, the stock is not publicly traded, and, typically, the principal shareholders take an active role in management. Without control rights or...
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RT @SCPublicRadio: .@UofSCLaw has developed a unique program aimed at training students to be more effective as family and small business a….
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Mike Switzer interviews Benjamin Means, the John T. Campbell Chair in Business and Professional Ethics and director of the Family and Small Business Program at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the...
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Susan Kuo and I have an article on corporations and climate change, forthcoming in the Harvard Environmental Law Review. In an earlier article, we described what corporations should be doing. This article is about how to make them do it.
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This was fun.
E105 of BGP features Profs @BenMeansBizness (@UofSCLaw) & Douglas Moll (@UHLAW). We talk about #corpgov in closely held corps, family and small businesses, freeze-out/oppressive conduct, evolution of jurisp & practice in this area. Quite the primer! 🎯💯
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Your presentation was terrific! Thank you for supporting the program.
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RT @anatalonbeck: So excited! I’ll be leading a session in a symposium about one of my fav shows - @succession! Can’t wait! Waystar/Royco S….
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The University of South Carolina School of Law expects to hire at least four new faculty this year, entry level or lateral. Areas of interest include Business Law; Environmental Law; Criminal Practice Clinic; and Wills, Trusts, and Estates.
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A great example of how family values and relationships can contribute to the success of a business venture.
A wonderful profile by @cncep @NewYorker of the people behind @SquareBooks in Oxford, Mississippi "one of the most beloved and influential bookstores in the country." .
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RT @AnnMLipton: apparently since i can't get away from it, here's a(nother) blog post on musk and twitter:.
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RT @shaan_haan: Another way to say this is: investors & companies are using private agreements to set the rules for GHG emissions on a comp….
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RT @shaan_haan: This is really good. Also, concentrated ownership is catalyzing changes—dual-class stock, client-directed voting, universal….
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BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street collectively manage more than $20 trillion in assets. It’s not a political problem, but it might be an economic one.
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This is our attempt to address climate change without radically altering corporate law. We are working on a follow-up piece that is much less deferential to the existing order.
#UofSCLaw Profs. Susan S. Kuo and Ben Means (@BenMeansBizness) address the role of corporations in climate change mitigation and adaptation in Climate Change Compliance forthcoming in @IowaLawReview. 🔗
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In today’s mail, A Corporate Law Rationale for Reparations. Thanks to Bob Thompson for including the article in the Corporate Practice Commentator. Also available here:
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My first TV interview, and I managed to work in my take on the Will Smith slap.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill that strips Disney World of its special self-governing status. This came after Disney spoke out against Florida's so-called “Don’t Say Gay”...
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Moving the Magic Kingdom would be a challenge.
.@UofSCLaw Prof. Benjamin Means (@BenMeans5) speaks about the power of "corporate exit" in a @washingtonpost article on Florida dissolving Disney's self-governing district.
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