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Shareholder Battles Rage On
by Alyce Lomax for The Motley Fool, April 13th, 2011. America’s most effective shareholders exhibit true grit in their tireless efforts to encourage better corporate governance policies. Not...
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Shareholder Proposals to Receive More Attention
by Ted Allen for Risk Metrics Group, April 18th, 2011. So far this U.S. proxy season, investors and companies have focused on the advisory votes on compensation and pay vote frequency that all large...
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Skin in the Game
by Julie Connelly for Boardmember, April 2011. There is a fresh idea about paying CEOs to take less risk that is coming out of academic research. Studies emanating from New York University’s Stern...
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Early Returns on Executive Compensation: Higher Pay, More Shareholder...
by Gary Larkin for The Conference Board – Governance Center Blog, April 29, 2011. In the first year of mandated advisory votes on executive compensation plans, two observations can be made: large...
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The importance of a good shareholders’ agreement in transactions
by Les Nemethy for Warsaw Business Journal, May 31st, 2011. The purchase of 100% of a company seems to be an increasingly rare type of M&A transaction in Central Europe. “Earn-outs” seem to be...
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In First Year of Say on Pay, Is Shareholder Dialogue Progressing?
by Gary Larkin for The Conference Board – The Governance Center Blog, June 2nd, 2011. The fact that as of June 1, 31 companies out of more than 1,600 have reported shareholders have voted down...
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The Top Shareholder Proposals of 2011 Proxy Season
by Laura J. Finn for Boardmember, June, 2011. ProxyMonitor.org has been monitoring the 100 largest U.S. companies this proxy season and created a scorecard to track all management and shareholder...
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Power to the shareholder
by Brendan Sheehan for Business Insider, June 14th, 2011. Although technological advancements may allow companies to hold virtual annual meetings, both investors and executives can benefit from...
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Shareholder Capitalism Is Dead
by John T. Landry for Harvard Business Review, July 21st, 2011. The verdict is in, and it serves as a convenient end point for the era of shareholder capitalism: Say-on-pay has been a dud. Fewer than...
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Governance Model with Sole Focus on Shareholder Value Might Not Be the...
Interview with Dr. Franklin Allen, professor of finance and economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The most interesting piece on corporate governance I read recently was… A...
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