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South Korea’s family-run conglomerates are facing calls for a shakeup in their governance from a leading candidate in May's presidential election, following the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye in a burgeoning influence-peddling scandal.
At the heart of health care are face-to-face interactions between health professionals and their patients and families. That is what makes it the ultimate “bricks and mortar” industry.
The poor financial health of about half the citizens in North America, combined with traditional lenders moving away from providing capital to small- and mid-size businesses, has created the conditions for fintech companies to start operations and fill those needs.
A wave of expected major-media mergers would transform AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. into the two most indebted companies in the world, a standing that carries uncharted risks for investors in the firms’ bonds.
Google is paying $550m for a stake in JD.com, the Chinese ecommerce group, in a move that will see the two collaborate on retail and other initiatives.
Shares of Canada Goose Inc. soared as much as 31 per cent on Friday after the luxury parka maker posted surprise fourth-quarter earnings on the back of surging global demand and widening margins from direct-to-consumer sales.
Former Carrefour chief executive Georges Plassat is to give up part of his departure package, the French retailer said on Saturday after facing pressure from employers' bodies, unions and the government over his payout.
Unilever, the consumer goods group, said it was “extremely” unlikely to stay in the UK’s FTSE 100 index once it consolidated its headquarters in the Netherlands, in a blow to some London-benchmarked index funds.
In hitting a new record high on Thursday, Netflix shares have doubled this year and cemented their position as the S&P 500’s second-best performer so far in 2018.
Canadian companies should be allowed to beef up, to bulk up, in order to compete with international firms
“To take notes or not to take notes – that is the question” often asked in corporate board rooms today. As a matter of good governance, it is important that the minutes serve as the single, clear, official record of each in-person or telephonic board and committee meeting. Board materials that are circulated and discussed at the meeting should be part of the official record and either attached to the minutes or maintained in the corporate secretary’s files, as appropriate.
Some companies have already installed AI board members to interpret vast amounts of data and help make more informed decisions. Already, AI can be found in boardrooms around the world, helping to inform key decisions about organizational structure and governance.
For a highly complex company, Amazon.com has a very simple view of the world: There is the money consumers spend on Amazon, and the money they spend not on Amazon.
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Today, I’d like to share a few thoughts about corporate stock buybacks—and some research produced by my staff that raises significant new questions about this activity.
Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Canada’s largest alternative asset manager, may consider investing in the Trans Mountain pipeline — if it would produce an attractive return.
Companies and industries go through life cycles. Oil and gas has one of the most predictable ones. To increase profits, large firms go into cost-cutting mode and sell off small, less-economic fields. This allows small firms and startups, which have a lower cost structure, to accumulate assets and build scale. Some of the small firms grow to become intermediates, although they don’t stay there long. They either continue growing into large firms or get swallowed up by one.
A decade after it needed a $185bn state bailout, the insurer is on the acquisition trail again, but investors remain wary
Senior lawmakers on U.S. intelligence committees are warning the Trudeau government that Chinese smartphone maker Huawei – which has turned Canada into a key research centre for next-generation mobile technology – is a national-security threat to a network of Canada’s allies.
The head of Volkswagen’s luxury arm Audi was arrested on Monday, the most senior company official so far to be taken into custody over the German carmaker’s emissions test cheating scandal.
[On May 30, 2018], the Federal Reserve Board approved a 373-page notice of proposed rulemaking that represents a first step toward simplifying and clarifying the Volcker Rule. The other four agencies responsible for implementation are expected to approve the notice in the coming days. Below is a brief summary of the key headlines and proposals from the release.
The Manitoba NDP says a letter from the newly appointed chair of Manitoba Hydro shows the government is not addressing the problems at the Crown corporation.
Cryptocurrency evangelists celebrated what they called a big step forward on Thursday, after a Securities and Exchange Commission official held out the prospect of exempting certain digital assets from its supervision.
U.S. proposals to smack 25% tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports are just the start, economists and China-watchers say
As the spotlight on boards, management teams, corporate performance and governance intensifies, as articles like the Bloomberg and Fortune profiles of Elliott Management and other activist investors become required reading in every boardroom and C-suite, and as activist campaigns against successful companies of all sizes increase worldwide, below are fifteen themes expected to impact boardroom, CEO and investor behavior and decision-making in the coming years.
Rapid growth across the cannabis industry is forcing thousands of businesses to mature quickly – and it’s not always a smooth process.
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