Mark DesJardine

Mark DesJardine is one of the leading academic voices on shareholder activism and corporate governance. He is a Professor of Strategy at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business and a senior fellow at The Wharton School, as well as an associate editor at Management Science and a senior editor at Organization Science, two premier management journals. His award-winning research—recognized with three lifetime scholar awards from leading international management associations, the Governor General’s Gold Medal, and a place on Poets&Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors—examines how activists choose their targets, how proxy contests are won and lost, and how the rise of AI in proxy voting is reshaping the relationship between boards and shareholders. He writes regularly for Harvard Business Review, where his work includes “When Activist Investors Ask for Board Seats,” “How to Respond to Shareholder Activism,” “How to Attract the Right Shareholders,” and “Will Your Investors Support Your Strategic Pivot?” Several of his articles rank among the most impactful in their journals by Altmetric Attention Score, including #1 of 343 articles in Strategic Organization, #10 of 2,227 in Strategic Management Journal, and #27 of 1,917 in Academy of Management Journal. He advises companies on shareholder activism and AI, and serves on the board of Longacre Square Partners.