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Starboard Value LP, the activist hedge fund that had pressured Macy's Inc (M.N) to separate its real estate from its retail business, has sold its stake in the U.S. department store operator, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
1. What is Governance? It is widely written that the concept of governance evolved around 3,500 year ago from the ancient greek word "Kubernetes" which means the person giving steerage or direction
A recent Delaware decision again signals those courts will closely scrutinize personal and business relationships that are asserted as compromising
As a rule of thumb, big winners tend to be offset by big losers. The result is underperformance.
The Corporate Board Summit will initiate a high-level discussion about HOW to elicit further action by Canadian companies to diversify their boards.
An activist hedge fund has criticized plans by Walt Disney (DIS.N) to take full control of debt-laden Paris theme park operator Euro Disney (EDLP.PA), according to a letter seen by Reuters.
Marissa Mayer's replacement as CEO of Yahoo, Thomas McInerney, will get paid twice as much as she did—for a job basically doing nothing.
In The Dealmaking State, we consider the consequences if deals became a principal mechanism for the promulgation of government policy, overseen by an executive who promises to be the dealmaker in chief. We also recommend that some useful constraints on the practice be adopted.
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There have already been more shareholder resolutions related to environmental and social issues filed this year than in 2016, according to an annual review of proxy statements.
Nasdaq Exclusives: How Corporate Boards Tackle Cybersecurity. Featuring Gov. Tom Ridge, NACD and Nasdaq.
Some TD employees allege they broke the law to meet sales targets.
6 Signs of a Shareholder-Friendly Stock, Stocks: JNJ,AAPL,BRK.A,BRK.B,MMM,DIS,GOOG,GOOGL,MSFT,FB, Warren Buffett, release date:Mar 13, 2017
Wells Fargo and VW have suffered perhaps irreparable damage to their market cap and reputation, following corporate scandals. Unless/until boards vigilantly and independently seek info from a variety of sources in exercising their oversight function, we'll likely to witness more falls from grace.
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When leading U.S. coal miner Peabody Energy Corp (BTUUQ.PK) emerges from bankruptcy next month, a group of seven investment funds could reap hundreds of millions of dollars in gains from an unusual sale of discounted company stock.
During the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder's meeting in May, shareholders will be voting on an environmental proposal brought to Berkshire by the Nebraska Peace
Evan Osnos on the growing concerns in Washington about cyber attacks, and different strategies for the cyber warfare age.
The world's largest money manager Blackrock warned against a sweeping deregulation of financial markets pointing to lessons learned from history.
Data includes S&P 500 companies with 0 women directors, one woman director, and 30% or more women directors.
Emma Walmsley, poised to take over as the first female chief executive officer of GlaxoSmithKline Plc, will earn about a quarter less than her predecessor Andrew Witty to reflect her lack of experience at the helm.
In Gabelli v. SEC, 133 S.Ct. 1216 (2013), the Supreme Court held that the five-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. §2462, which applies to actions for penalties, fines and forfeitures, begins to run when a violation is complete rather than when it is later discovered. The Court quoted Chief Justice Marshall’s statement from more than two centuries ago that it “would be utterly repugnant to the genius of our laws” if actions for penalties could “be brought at any distance of time,” id. at 1223 (internal citation omitted), and it described the important policies served by statutes of limitations as follows:
Corporate boards have the opportunity to take advantage of a more evolved internal audit function, but few are yet to do so, according to a principal in Deloitte & Touche’s advisory practice.
Taxing capital gains without accounting for long-term inflation means severe injury to actual earnings
In this blog, we outline four guiding perspectives or data points that all compensation committees should consider as they set new compensation goals.
This paper examines the effects of hedge fund activism and so-called wolf pack activity on the ordinary human beings — the human investors — who fund our capita
Marissa Mayer is about to lose her CEO job, but she's in for a nice consolation prize
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