Jesse Fried says that Senator Warren and President Trump both want to weaken shareholder oversight, Senator Warren with her legislative proposal and President Trump in asking the SEC to review elimination of quarterly reporting: In the absence of any solid evidence that shareholders harm firms, the case for weakening investors has been based on myths,…
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Support for Senator Warren’s Accountable Corporations Act
Leading scholars and practitioners have written to endorse Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed Accountable Corporations Act. Dear Senator Warren, We are a group of long-term scholars and practitioners of the law, finance, and economics of corporations and other business entities. We write you now in support of your Accountable Capitalism Act. We believe legislation along these…
Elizabeth Warren unveils bold new plan to reshape American capitalism | US news | The Guardian
We are delighted to see corporate governance become a central issue in the political debates shaping up for the next Presidential election, though we have some hesitation in endorsing some of the ideas in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed Accountable Capitalism Act. We do not think of this proposal as “redistributing wealth,” however, as The Guardian…
How GRC, Compliance and CSR Work Together – EQS Blog
GRC, Compliance, and CSR are all highly-relevant and valuable topics for companies today. Often, these terms are not always clear and the distinction between them may not be easy to understand.How Are GRC and Compliance Related?GRC stands for “Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance“, a generic term encompassing various leadership functions within a company.Governance speaks to…
‘Chairman’ retired from UK boardroom code – Financial News
The term ‘chairman’ has been dropped from the UK Corporate Governance Code for the first time in 26 years and replaced with ‘chair’ in a landmark move for equality in the workplace.The watershed change appears in the 2018 edition of the influential guidelines, published today, and is part of a conscious decision to retire the…
Unheralded Boardroom Excellence… at Theranos? | Adam J. Epstein | Pulse | LinkedIn
As the founder of Theranos faces a possible prison sentence and the company collapses under allegations of outright fraud and a board that was at best negligent, Adam J. Epstein points to one director who tried to do the right thing, based on the new book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley…
Corporate Governance Principles – Investor Stewardship Group
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK FOR U.S. LISTED COMPANIES Principle 1: Boards are accountable to shareholders. Principle 2: Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest. Principle 3: Boards should be responsive to shareholders and be proactive in order to understand their perspectives. Principle 4: Boards should have a strong, independent leadership…
Investors’ Attention to Corporate Governance by Peter Iliev, Jonathan Kalodimos, Michelle Lowry
Seems like a pretty nuanced cost-benefit analysis to us. We develop a direct measure of investor scrutiny to assess the extent of governance-related research conducted by 97 mutual fund families in 3,706 companies, over a seven-year period. Our governance measure is based on the number of times each investor accesses each firm’s proxy and proxy-related…
Nell Minow: How Only Corporate Governance Can Save the World
VEA Vice Chair Nell Minow spoke to students at Sarah Lawrence College about the challenges and opportunities of corporate governance.
Time For Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg To Face Facts
Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld explains the failure of corporate governance at Facebook revealed by the Cambridge Analytica breach. We concur, and we call on the board to establish a committee to investigate further and report to Facebook users and investors about the steps they are taking to prevent further breaches. The leadership of Facebook is failing…
