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Tag Archives: SEC
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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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
NOTABLE PEOPLE: Bob Monks and the Battle to Change Corporate America
The TakeAway: Bob Monks believes new corporate governance reforms fall short, but digital tools can help advance accountability goals. Robert A.G. Monks has a long history of pioneering work on corporate accountability. From his tenure as first Department of Labor … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Sustainability, Interactive Technology, Investor Governance, Notable People, Proxy Voting, Public Policy, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainable Investing, Web 2.0
Tagged beneficial owners, Bob Monks, CalPERS, Corporate Governance, ERISA, institutional investors, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), interactive technology, LENS, Nell Minow, proxy access, Robert A.G. Monks, Roebuck, Sears, SEC, The Corporate Library, trustee
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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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Fiduciary Failure: Closing the ESG Disclosure Gap
The TakeAway: Flex your muscles, report tells investors, to get better environmental, social, and governance reporting (and practice) from companies. What’s the secret to good corporate governance? Good investor governance. That’s why we were delighted by a recent report from … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance, Corporate Reporting, Investor Governance
Tagged Alan Willis, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), Canadian Securities Administrators, endowments, ESG, fiduciary, institutional investors, integrated reporting, investor governance, Julie Desjardins, key performance indicators, proxy access, SEC, stock exchanges, UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
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Apple Opens the Way to X-Filing
The TakeAway: New iPhone XBRL application opens new windows into financial reporting; next up: sustainability reporting. Apple’s iTunes Store has joined the digital revolution in financial reporting. Yesterday, it rolled out a new offering – it wasn’t a song, movie, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Reporting, Interactive Technology, Public Policy, Web 2.0
Tagged Apple, Brix Project, Charlie Hoffman, crowd-sourcing, GRI, integrated reporting, iPhone, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Liv Watson, SEC, Semantic Web, smartphone, taxonomy, X-filing, X-tagging, XBRL, XBRL International, XBRL US Labs
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Board Diversity, Elitism, and Performance: What Works Best?
Part Two of Two Parts The TakeAway: Can Diverse Boards Avoid Pitfalls of Directors Spread Too Thin, And Enhance Performance? Yesterday we described the Mad Men effect on corporate boards sorely lacking gender diversity. Today, we continue our discussion, placing … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Governance
Tagged board diversity, interlock, Nell Minow, SEC, The Corporate Library
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