Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law, presented her research on institutional investors’ responsibility to practice gender and cultural diversity in corporate boards at the Israeli Women in Business Law Forum.
The focus of Alon-Beck’s presentation centered on an article she co-authored, “No More Old Boys’ Club: Institutional Investors’ Fiduciary Duty to Diversify Corporate Boards,” which was published in 2019.
In the article and in her presentation, Alon-Beck claims that institutional investors could be instrumental in diversifying the firms they invest in, due to their influential proximity to firm executives. Alon-Beck argues that investors’ push for diversity may be more effective and more well-received than some federal quotas for equality in the workplace.