Corporate governance - Vigil

Since corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) consist of many different elements, it is important to understand that their relationship depends on various factors that may arise from inside and outside the boundaries of the firm.

Order early, pay a lot, digitize distribution and stretch the supply. That is how Israel came to be a leader of the world’s COVID-19 vaccination drive, reaching nearly 15 per cent of the country’s 9.3 million population in about two weeks.

As chief executive Mary Barra announced the acceleration of General Motors’ rollout of 30 vehicle models in November, she said the carmaker was “committed to fighting for EV market share until we are number one in North America”.

It is time to consider a more radical transformation, away from employer-based pensions towards large, permanent vehicles that can pour money into infrastructure and private equity if that makes sense.

Economic growth should get back to normal by the second half of 2021, according to Gita Gopinath, chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

Apple Inc. said it exceeded its internal financial targets in the past fiscal year, resulting in the company paying out 179% of the targeted bonuses for named officers.

The eurozone economy likely contracted in the final three months of last year, according to surveys of purchasing managers, as rising coronavirus cases and government restrictions weighed on activity in the dominant services sector.

Apple lists six values that include environmental practices, diversity and inclusion among workforce and privacy and security of devices

“The wage subsidy in Canada is being changed on an almost monthly basis to tweak it, to improve it, and one of those tweaks should absolutely be that going forward you cannot receive a wage subsidy and pay out big bonuses to your execs,” said David Macdonald, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Robert Kokonis, President and Managing Director of AirTrav, Inc, speaks with Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about how Canadian airlines can get back to business as usual post-pandemic.

New York is gradually raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, and as of Dec. 31 employers on Long Island and in Westchester County were required to start paying workers at least $14 an hour, up from $13. The minimum rose to $12.50 from $11.80 an hour in the rest of New York state outside New York City, where all employers hit the $15 hourly wage requirement at the end of 2019.

British private equity giant Hg Capital LLP is buying its fourth Canadian software company in the past year, announcing Wednesday it will pick up control of Prophix Software in a deal valuing the Mississauga enterprise at US$500-million to US$600-million.

The leisurely roll-out of vaccines risks extending the pandemic for months

General Electric Co.’s board won’t claw back compensation from former CEO Jeff Immelt and other executives over GE’s accounting issues or Mr. Immelt’s use of a backup corporate jet, ending a three-year probe into allegations of misconduct at the conglomerate.

The New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday said it would go ahead with its plan to delist three Chinese telecommunications companies next week, after drawing criticism from the US Treasury secretary over its earlier decision to keep the businesses trading on the Big Board.

The chief executives of FTSE 100 companies are paid a median average of £3.6m a year, which works out at 115 times the £31,461 collected by full-time UK workers on average, according to research by the High Pay Centre thinktank.

China’s regulators are trying to get Jack Ma to do something the beleaguered billionaire has long resisted: share the troves of consumer-credit data collected by his financial-technology behemoth.

General Electric Co.’s board won’t claw back compensation from former CEO Jeff Immelt and other executives over GE’s accounting issues or Mr. Immelt’s use of a backup corporate jet, ending a three-year probe into allegations of misconduct at the conglomerate.

Exxon Mobil Corp. disclosed emissions data on customers’ use of its fuels and other products for the first time after coming under pressure from investors.

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and a group of investors have offered to acquire the stake in Brookfield Property Partners that they don’t already own, in a US$5.9 billion bid to take the real estate company private.

The recovery's pace will be determined by entrepreneurs, executives and investors — groups that for years have been reluctant to leave the sidelines

Canadian miner Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. said on Tuesday it would buy TMAC Resources for about $286.6 million, two weeks after Canada rejected Shandong Gold Mining’s bid for the indebted company.

Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity fell to a three-year low in 2020, as companies grappled with the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as dealmaking came roaring back in the second half.