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Airbus and Bombardier said late Tuesday that talks between the two jet makers over possible “business opportunities” have ended.
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Dell Inc is in talks to strike a combination with EMC Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would remove questions about EMC’s future that have hung over the data-storage giant for more than a year.
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Corporate governance is increasingly applied to an extended form of monitoring corporate activities that include the impact on society and the natural environment. This additional agenda can create tension and conflicting priorities among the traditional roles of shareholders.
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BlackRock Inc. on Tuesday said it would allow its own shareholders to vote on whether it would have proxy access in its bylaws.
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The growing strategic role of CFOs may create tension with top strategists. That’s a missed opportunity for teaming up to improve company performance. A McKinsey & Company article.
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BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest money manager, is proposing changes that would enable large, longtime shareholders in the company to nominate their own directors.
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Nothing kills the mood at an investor day quite like a stock price near zero. But that may yet be the predicament that Canadian aerospace company Bombardier faces when it hosts shareholders on November 25. The company’s ambitious bet on a new model
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The agency mostly enforces disclosure rules, but it takes a broad view of disclosure.
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Shake Shack announced plans to convert Class B shares into Class A shares, enabling some early investors like Leonard Green, its top holder, to exit about nine months after the burger chain’s public debut.
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This study examines whether firms’ disclosure decisions are affected by the presence of activist hedge funds. Using a large sample of firms that experienced in
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As hedge funds’ war chests swell, the funds are taking aim at bigger and bigger companies.
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The Montreal-based company best known for paper telephone and ad directories said that the affected jobs are mainly management positions, with about three-quarters located in Quebec
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Activists are turning out to be a shareholder’s best friend.
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DuPont (DD) CEO Ellen Kullman, bowing to pressure led by activist shareholder Nelson Peltz, said she would retire from the global chemical company.
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Yum Brands Inc. is leaving a stale taste in the mouth of investors Wednesday, raising the stakes as activists push to split up the parent of Pizza Hut.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that federal District Courts do not have subject-matter jurisdiction to entertain challenges to ongoing SEC administrative enforc...
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Women of color are a growing and underutilized resource. Use this infographic to reach all of your talent.
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Details of the board meetings leading up to Alcoa’s planned split offer clues about the future of the two public companies.
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In an important ruling last week, the Delaware Supreme Court reaffirmed that control of Delaware companies lies in the boardroom and held that the deferential business judgment rule is the “appropriate standard of review for a post-closing damages action” when a third-party merger “has been approved by a fully informed, uncoerced majority of the disinterested stockholders.” Corwin v. KKR Fin. Holdings LLC, No. 629, 2014 (Del. Oct. 2, 2015) (en banc).
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Thanks to an updated filing this week, the stage has been set for another initial public offering by a Canadian technology company. And if and when that issuer, PointClickCare Corp., goes public, it...
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Hedge funds are down 1.35 percent this year after a fourth straight month of losses in September, which marks the longest consecutive period of declines since the financial crisis, data released Wednesday shows.
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Economist disagrees with NDP’s analysis of budget outcome because companies would have to be allowed to write off more costs
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Murakami Aya, CEO of the investment firm C&I Holdings, explains her company’s approach as an activist investor pushing corporate management to implement proper governance.
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