Faux Naivete From Corporate Apologists

Nell Minow
3 min readMay 4

The Hoover Institute is funded by the usual suspects in the ultra-right, climate change denial, corporate power community: ExxonMobil, Kochs, Scaifes, Donors Trust, etc. Corporate apologist David F. Larker, who does not disclose the funders of his research at the CEO-supporting Rock Center at Stanford Law School, and his colleague Brian Tayan have a new paper published by the Hoover Institute that purports to be about how little we know about what constitutes good corporate governance. It refers to this as “seven gaping holes.” It does not point out that we have had to learn what bad…

Nell Minow

Movie critic, corporate critic and shareholder advocate, Contributing Editor at @ebertvoices plus @moviemom, and #corpgov #movies and editor at @miniverpress