Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility News from 3BL Media- RecycleForce Keeps Electronic Waste Out of Landfills and Ex-Felons Out of Prison 22 May 2013
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Tag Archives: Goldman Sachs
Who’s Friending Whom?
The TakeAway: News of Goldman Sachs’ $50 billion valuation and private offering of Facebook underscores the need to rally social media to promote corporate sustainability and accountability. The biggest business story of the New Year broke in the wee hours of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Media & Entertainment, Public Policy
Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Digital Sky Technologies, Doug Y. Park, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, initial public offering (IPO), John Cassidy, LinkedIn, Mark Zuckerberg, SEC, SecondMarket, shadow markets, SharesPost, social media, Twitter, Zynga
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Citizens United: The Aftermath
The TakeAway: This year’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United opened the floodgates of money in politics, eroding public trust in government as well as shareholder value. “Oyez, Oyez, Oyez!” the Marshal of the Court called out today, marking the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Public Policy
Tagged American Crossroads, American International Group (AIG), Bank of America, Business Roundtable, Center for Political Accountability, Citizens United, DISCLOSE Act (H.R. 5175), Fox News, Goldman Sachs, John Coates, JP Morgan Chase, Karl Rove, Lawrence Lessig, News Corp, OpenSecrets.org, OYEZ Project, political activity, political spending, proxy access, shareholder protection, Super PACs, Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), US Chamber of Commerce
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Environmental & Social Policy Resolutions Receive Record Levels of Support
Part Two of Three Parts For more than forty years, shareholder activists and large investors have expressed their concerns to corporate boards through the proxy resolution process. For them, this past season was the best ever. Proxy resolutions are proposed … Continue reading
Posted in Proxy Voting
Tagged Altria, Bob Massie, Calvert, Center for Political Accountability, Ceres, Citizens United, climate change, coal ash, diversity, Domini Social Investments, equal employment, ESG, Exco Resources, Gardner Denver, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, Heidi Welsh, hydraulic fracturing, ICCR, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, KBR, Leggett and Platt, Lubber, Mercy Investment, Miami Firefighters, NYCERS, Pax World Funds, political activity, political spending, proxy resolution, reporting, Reynolds American, SEC, shareholders, Si2, sustainability, Sustainable Investments Institute, The Transition Group, Trillium Asset Management, Trinity Health
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Both/And: The Big Tent of Socially Responsible Investing
Commentary by Murninghan Post Editor Bill Baue The TakeAway: Seeming dichotomies thrive side-by-side as complementary strategies at the SRI in the Rockies Conference. Attire at the SRI in the Rockies Conference last week in San Antonio ranged from tie-dye to … Continue reading →