On becoming an activist board!

The old school AMP chairman David Murray and sensitive new-age ANZ chairman David Gonski represent opposing forces in the battle over corporate governance that has exploded this week.

Here is what John Paulson has: A formerly high-flying hedge fund, clients heading for the doors and a crumbling reputation. Here is what the founder of Paulson & Co. doesn’t have: A buyer for Detour Gold Corp.

Establishing a competitive culture and incentivizing employee performance is a critical component of any financially thriving company. But what happens when the competitive pendulum swings too far? Recent incidents at companies ranging from Uber to Volkswagen to Wells Fargo demonstrate the potentially negative consequences when flaws in corporate culture are left unidentified or ignored.

It’s the 1990s, the dawn of the Internet age—and you, like everyone you know, has a genius of a dotcom idea. Somehow, you get in to see one of the hottest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Your pitch, fired up and ready: You’re going to sell books over the Internet.

Activist hedge funds such as those run by billionaires Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman and Daniel Loeb have more of an impact on a company than just forcing management to dance to their tune.

Xerox Corp  has appointed John Visentin as chief executive officer and set July 31 for its annual shareholders meeting, the U.S. photocopier maker said on Wednesday.

I'm a huge supporter of using the power of activist investors to help shape the course of not just the market, but the why corporations do business and respond to consumer concerns.

At the core of agency problems in widely held firms is a dual coordination failure, argue Mike Burkart and Samuel Lee

Exxon Mobil Corp’s $200 million write-down last month on abandoned ventures in Russia - once its next big frontier - points to challenges facing Chief Executive Darren Woods in his second year leading the world’s largest publicly traded oil producer.