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Former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn may never see the inside of a courtroom in the United States in connection with the company’s diesel emissions scandal. But his legal troubles are far from over. 
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As gender equity and diversity in corporate leadership continue to be critical discussions, research is regularly published showing links between these factors and company performance. Based on an analysis of Equilar 100 companies—the largest U.S.-listed firms to file proxy statements to the SEC before March 31—women CEOs had a higher representation of women on their boards on average than companies led by male counterparts. They also were awarded higher compensation on average in 2017.
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Nestlé is paying $7.15bn for the rights to market products of Starbucks outside its shops as the Swiss group fights to strengthen its position in the global coffee sector.
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Many developed countries have anti-immigration political parties, which terrify the incumbents and sometimes break into government.
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In 2012, antitrust regulators shrugged off a huge media merger. That was a mistake.
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Bombardier is arguably one of Canada’s biggest global players, but has faced very trying times in the past few years. Brought in as a change agent a bit over three years ago, CEO Alain Bellemare is about halfway through a transformational five-year plan.
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erkshire Hathaway Inc bought 75 million additional Apple Inc shares in the first three months of the year, CEO Warren Buffett told CNBC on Thursday, aggressively ramping up its bets on the iPhone maker.
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How do you set up a new director for success? “Onboarding” is the buzzword that refers to the process of integrating a new board member into the boardroom.
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The 2018 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group unsurprisingly did not produce any major policy breakthrough. Nor did participants and observers emerge with a better understanding of how the tension between current global economic growth and future risk is likely to play out in the absence of better policy.
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Independent directors are considered to be effective deterrents to fraud and mismanagement in an organisation but roles keep changing. Tougher measures are needed to prevent corporate disasters
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A couple of months ago, a veteran investor in Silicon Valley conducted an experiment: he extracted all the data that Facebook and Google each held about him and compared the files.
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The theory of “collective narcissism” — that is, an exaggerated sense of greatness held by members of a particular group — dates back nearly 100 years to the days of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
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Commentary: The baby boomers continue to have an outsized influence on our culture and our politics and on the U.S.'s fiscal situation for years to come
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The board of Flipkart Online Services has approved an agreement to sell about 75 percent of the company to a Walmart-led group for approximately $15 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, an enormous bet by the American retailer on international expansion.
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Private meetings between management and investors (site visits) occur worldwide and are generally held at corporate headquarters with invited investors and sell-side analysts. Ng and Troianovski (WSJ, 2015) report that U.S. investors spend $1.4 billion a year for face time with executives.
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Spain,s recession ended in 2013, but in Extremadura, a scenic, sparsely populated region in the country’s south-west, you would be forgiven for not noticing. Last year unemployment stood at 26.3%, among the highest rates for any region in the EU.
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Les actionnaires de Telecom Italia se sont prononcés vendredi en faveur du fonds activiste Elliott Management, qui a réussi à placer sa liste de 10 candidats indépendants au conseil d'administration. Le français Vivendi, premier actionnaire avec 23,94% du capital, devra se contenter des cinq sièges restants.
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An alias email account, fake business cards and a shell company named “Liberation” in Dutch were all part of a former Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. executive’s bribery scheme that duped the drugmaker, a Manhattan jury was told.
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Investors seemed to take another big quarterly loss from Tesla in stride. At least until the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, started talking.
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Medical cannabis grower MedReleaf Corp. confirmed Thursday that it has held talks with Aurora Cannabis Inc. and other rivals about possible transactions.
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In today’s corporate environment, there are many kinds of disruption that affect U.S. public companies. Regulatory disruptions, digital disruptions, and market disruptions are in many ways woven together—but also distinct—in the challenges they pose to a company’s management and board of directors.
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Can the CEO be his own boss? Easy to answer, no? Yet decades have passed and that question is still being asked, posed this spring in a shareholder proposal attached to the order of business for Loblaw Cos. Ltd.'s annual general meeting, being held Thursday.
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There’s a major shakeup at Xerox in the wake of the recent fight over the control and direction of the company by two major investors.
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John Flint, chief executive of HSBC, has some much needed breathing space to put together his three-year plan for Europe’s biggest bank as it emerges from a scandal-plagued past.
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Here’s a look at CEO earnings in 2017 for other publicly traded Canadian utilities providers and power generation companies
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