1. The dialogue between corporations and institutional investors: an introduction Luca Enriques and Giovanni Strampelli; 2. The new corporate governance Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales; 3. Corporate purpose and shareholder voice Paul A. Davies; 4. 'The purpose of corporate purpose statements: a response to 'shareholder voice and corporate purpose: the purposeless of mandatory corporate purpose statements' by Paul Davies' Colin Mayer; 5. Systemic stewardship with tradeoffs Marcel Kahan and Edward Rock; 6. How to facilitate ESG investor engagement Wolf Georg Ringe; 7. Giant asset managers, the big three, and index investing Dorothy Lund and Adriana Z. Robertson; 8. Board-shareholder engagement and insider regulation Lars Klöhn; 9. Board-shareholder engagement and disclosure obligations under corporate governance codes Ana Taleska; 10. Market soundings rules: the challenges and opportunities for board-shareholder engagement Jennifer Paybe; 11. Board-shareholder engagement and M&A Afra Afsharipour; 12. Emerging ESG-driven models of shareholder collaborative engagement Peter O. Mülbert and Alexander Sajnovits; 13. How does board-shareholder engagement really work? Evidence from a survey of corporate officers and from disclosure data Matteo Gatti, Giovanni Strampelli and Matteo Tonello; 14. Board shareholder engagement and directors' appointments Anna Christie; 15. Something old, something new: cultivating institutional investor engagement through shareholder stewardship Dionysia Katelouzou; 16. Shareholder engagement inside and outside the shareholder meeting Tim Bowley, Jennifer G. Hill and Steve Kourabas; 17. The perils and promise of shareholders as stakeholder advocates Lisa M. Fairfax; 18. Shareholder proposals and the debate over sustainability disclosure Jill Fisch; 19. Blockchain applications in corporate governance: opportunities and challenges for shareholder and stakeholder participation Anne Lafarre and Christoph Van der Elst; 20. Hedge fund engagement in East Asia Lin Lin.