Brian Tayan is a researcher with the Corporate Governance Research Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA. He is also a member of both the Rock Center for Corporate Governance and the Working Group on Corporate Governance at the Hoover Institution. Mr. Tayan is coauthor (with David Larcker) of Corporate Governance Matters, The Art and Practice of Corporate Governance, and A Real Look at Real World Corporate Governance. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, USA, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He can be reached at btayan@stanford.edu.