Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility News from 3BL Media- CSX Puts a Little Muscle into National Campaign Supporting Wounded Warrior Project® 22 May 2013
- Driving May Increase Skin Cancer Risk for Men 22 May 2013
- Half the Sky Movement: The Game interviewed by the NEA 22 May 2013
- PCI Media Impact Hosts Film Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image to Showcase Student’s Media Projects for Social Change 22 May 2013
- Global Citizenship Strategy at HP 22 May 2013
Tag Archives: Mary Schapiro
Sustainability News Roundup
The TakeAway: BP’s transparency, the power of proxy advisory firms, and uncontrolled campaign spending BP disaster: truth or “integrated spin”? | Today’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal report that Halliburton knowingly supplied “unstable” cement to BP to seal … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Political Activity, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Sustainability, Investor Governance, Proxy Voting, Public Policy
Tagged BP, Broc Romanek, Citizens United, Deepwater Horizon, Global Reporting Initiative, Halliburton, integrated reporting, Macondo, Mary Schapiro, Nell Minow, OpenSecrets.org, ProPublica, proxy plumbing, Sanford Lewis, SEC
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Say-on-Pay: A Bird’s Eye View
The TakeAway: New SEC rules on executive compensation advisory votes take steps toward broader board-shareholder engagement. On Monday afternoon, the SEC proposed rules for Say-on-Pay (shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation) and golden parachutes (big payouts to executives dismissed after … Continue reading
Proxy Access & Shareholder Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion
The TakeAway: New SEC rule allows shareholders to nominate board candidates, a major victory for corporate democracy. Yesterday was historic: the SEC granted shareholders the power to nominate candidates for board director elections. The 3-2 vote along party lines ended … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Proxy Voting, Public Policy
Tagged Business Roundtable, Council of Institutional Investors, Dodd-Frank, Harvard Law School Forum, James McRitchie, Les Greenberg, Lucian Bebchuk, Mary Schapiro, proxy access, Robert A.G. Monks, Rule 14a-11, Scott Hirst, SEC, Social Investment Forum, US Chamber of Commerce
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Good Governance: A Perfect Storm
Part Three of Three Parts President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act into law yesterday, capping an extraordinary period of financial and governance reform, stimulated by the collapse of Lehman Brothers 22 months ago. You could call it “the end of … Continue reading
Posted in Proxy Voting, Public Policy
Tagged board diversity, Calvert, CEO succession, Chesapeake Energy, Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, corporate political spending, CRPTF, Dodd-Frank, executive compensation, financial reform, Glass-Lewis, governance reform, independent board chair, investment advisers, Investor Advisory Committee, James McRitchie, KeyCorp, majority voting, Mary Schapiro, Motorola, mutual funds, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Netflix, Occidental Petroleum, proxy, Proxy Disclosure Enhgnacments, RiskMetrics, rulemaking, Say-on-Pay, SEC, supermajority voting requirements, Ted Allen, Therese Doucet
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Tackling “Corporate-Carditis”: SEC Proposes Quadruple Bypass Surgery on Proxy System
Part Two of a Two-Part Post Yesterday, in a rare expression of unanimity, the five SEC Commissioners all voted to approve a Concept Release that proposes sweeping revisions of the US proxy voting system. This is akin to quadruple bypass … Continue reading
We the People, or Corporate Lobbyists: Whose Interests Will the SEC Serve?
Part One of Two Parts The TakeAway: SEC Opens Door Further to Public Engagement as Ex-Regulator Lobbyists Rush In Two developments late yesterday demonstrate the high stakes involved when it comes to money and power, and vividly illustrate the imbalance … Continue reading →