The newly-established Program on Institutional Investors at Harvard Law School (PII) seeks to contribute to research, policy-making, discourse, and education with respect to institutional investors and issues of interest to institutional investors.
Project on Public Pension Funds and Mutual Funds: This project fosters research on which rules, arrangements, and practices serve shareholder value, and other issues of interest to public pension funds and mutual funds. The project also seeks to facilitate discourse among officers of public pension funds and mutual funds, as well as between such officers, policy-makers, and academics on the subject.
Project on Hedge Funds and Private Equity: This project fosters research on hedge funds and private equity and conducts empirical research in this area. The project also seeks to facilitate discourse about policy-making in the area among officers of hedge funds and private equity firms, as well as between such officers, policy-makers, and academics.
Shareholder Rights Project: The PII operates the Harvard Law School Shareholder Rights Project, a clinical program that provides services on a pro bono basis to public pension funds and nonprofit charitable organizations seeking to improve corporate governance.
Events: The PII fosters talks, workshops, panels, and conferences. The PII held its first annual Harvard Institutional Investors Conference in November 2011.
Online Forum: The PII cosponsors the widely-followed Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.
The PII’s Director is Lucian Bebchuk, the Associate Director is , and the Administrative Director is .