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The Motley Fool
June 14, 2007
Rich Smith |
Disinformation USA Beyond infoUSA's disinformation on the voting front, there were several anomalies at the meeting itself that made last year's much-maligned Home Depot shareholders' meeting look like a model of shareholder friendliness.   |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2005
Rich Smith |
Advance Info on infoUSA Analysts are expecting very good things out of the data-collection company tomorrow. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2005
Rich Smith |
Coup du Jour at infoUSA "Fiduciary duty" gets a black eye at this data collection company. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: infoUSA's Parade Investors want to know: Will data collator infoUSA make it three in a row for earnings misses when it reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers tomorrow morning? |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2005
Rich Smith |
infoUSA Board Develops Backbone The board of directors at the data collection company thwarts a buyout. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 9, 2004
Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Bring Shareholders into the Board Room How can we improve board performance? One way is by reducing the extent to which boards are insulated from, and unaccountable to, shareholders. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Forman Leaves Register.com Since co-founding the company with his brother back in 1994, Richard Forman saw the registrar through the deregulation of his industry and a proxy fight with dissident shareholders last year, which ultimately led to his departure. |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2010
Ryan McBride |
Genzyme Annual Meeting Remarkably Mundane, Despite Rocky Year Genzyme's annual meeting was over in about an hour, and although the company took some hard questions from a shareholder, it appears that chairman and CEO Henri Termeer and the rest of the company's directors were easily reelected to serve on the board of directors. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012
Dawn Kawamoto |
Yahoo!'s Yang Out, Board Selection Trumps New CEO Selection Yahoo! is reportedly on the prowl for new board directors, as shareholder activist Third Point LLC is increasing pressure to name its own competing slate. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 5, 2006
Joseph Hinsey |
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction Corporate governance reformers are pushing the idea of majority voting for directors. But that solution won't produce the desired outcome. The answer? Keep CEOs and board chairs separate. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2005
Rich Smith |
infoUSA Takes Shares, Goes Home The data-collection company bids the market adieu. Unlike the company's previous bids for wayward Digital Impact, as long as infoUSA shareholders like the price, chances are this deal will go through. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Shareholders Want This Power More and more investors agitate for the right to act by written consent. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2004
Chris Mallon |
A Proxy for Management The proxy statement gives investors an annual glimpse into the minds of management. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2009 |
A Trio of Options Shareholders could soon have an easier route to proposing their own directors on company boards, thanks to three changes |
Registered Rep.
September 7, 2005
Kristen French |
Post-Purcell Shuffle Claims Marsh, More Morgan Directors to Follow? The changing of the guard at Morgan Stanley continues as leadership loyal to departed CEO Philip Purcell heads for the exits. |
The Motley Fool
January 30, 2007
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Hail, infoUSA The data collator is set to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
David Henry |
Mutual Funds: Tossing Out The Rubber Stamp A new SEC rule that takes effect next year will require mutual funds to disclose how they vote on proxies for the stocks they own. The rule is intended to keep funds from siding with management to gain 401(k) business. How will this affect corporate governance? |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2009
Toby Shute |
Shareholders 1, Board Bozos 0 Score one for shareholder empowerment. |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006 |
An Acid Test for Boards Institutional Shareholder Services is making financial performance a metric for supporting directors' reelection. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Welcome to Proxy Fight Club Despite their downsides, proxy wars represent an important part of shareholder rights. |
BusinessWeek
January 31, 2005
Louis Lavelle |
A Simple Way To Make Boards Behave Requiring directors to win a majority of votes would give shareholders more say. Investors at as many as 100 companies will vote on nonbinding shareholder resolutions urging those companies to adopt majority voting. |
Registered Rep.
September 12, 2005
Kristen French |
More Adieus From Morgan Stanley Directors As expected, Morgan Stanley board members from the Philip Purcell era continue to decamp, with two more directors out. With these resignations, the board now has 11 directors. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2005
Gardner, Gillies & Mann |
Quality Systems: Vote No! The authors substantiate why voting against the digital record-keeping company's proxy is in the long-term interests of outside shareowners. |
CIO
November 14, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
Boards Want to Learn About Emerging IT Issues Directors admit they aren't adequately engaged in topics such as social media and IT-enabled business innovation |
IndustryWeek
November 17, 2010 |
Board Member Today; CEO Tomorrow The number of Fortune 1000 directors who became the CEOs of the companies on whose boards they served more than doubled in the past year. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2010
Jeffrey Morgan |
Corporate America Wants Your Vote Why we should all care about corporate governance. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Home Depot Gets Religion The board of directors requires a two-thirds vote to approve CEO pay. Now let's see what else its members can come up with to restore investor confidence in their ability to lead Home Depot forward. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Proxy Fights 101 How shareholder skirmishes are transforming Wall Street. It's smart to understand how proxy fights work, but don't assume they're a good system for investing. Proxy battles often target struggling companies with volatile stocks. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2004
Eliot Cohen |
Lies, Half-Truths, and Hubris Help the SEC make the right choice about fairer elections for boards of directors. Corporate insiders are spouting lies, half-truths, and hubris to prevent investors from getting a whiff of fairer elections for boards of directors. |
U.S. Banker
June 2006
Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
More Rules, Higher Profits? New research shows that good governance practices may reduce your cost of capital. |
Managed Care
December 2007 |
Medical Directors' Pay up 37% Since `97 -- or Not Salaries of medical directors and associate/assistant medical directors have risen by more than 30% over the last 10 years, according to a 2007 survey. |
The Motley Fool
October 18, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Good, Bad, and No infoUSA The data collator badly missed analyst estimates for its second-quarter 2006 earnings last quarter. When the third-quarter numbers come in shortly, will investors find the missing pennies there? |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Ups and Downs for Women A new report on the progress of women in the workplace features some interesting results. Why does this topic matter to investors? Some studies suggest that having more women on a board of directors can lead to better governance. |
The Motley Fool
February 20, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Get Out and Vote! Proxy voting lets your shareholder voice be heard. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2011
Dawn Kawamoto |
Reshuffling Yahoo!'s Board: A New House of Cards? It may take an activist shareholder to bring about meaningful change. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Joseph Webe |
How The Best Boards Stay Clued In Director John A. Krol says a culture of openness has helped turn Tyco around. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 30, 2003 |
Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end? |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2005
Gardner & Mann |
Quality Systems: Board Battle Rages On The electronic records software provider's final slate of directors is being contested by dissident shareholder and director Ahmed Hussein. If a lawsuit is brewing from the vote count, management and its board should have revealed it to shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Corporate Boards Are Broken Extreme measures are needed to get boards to do their jobs. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2006
John S. McClenahen |
Pay Model Hurts Corporate Image But surveys differ on whether executive pay is excessive. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 23, 2013
Michael Blanding |
Just How Independent are `Independent' Directors? A rule in China, which mandates publicly-traded company directors to explain their dissenting votes, provides Tarun Khanna and Juan Ma with rich data looking into the inner workings of how board members interact. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
The SEC May Shut You Up If you want to keep the right to influence your companies, let the SEC know. The SEC has recently proposed changing rules for shareholders -- in ways that don't seem to protect them at all. |
Bank Director
1st Quarter 2009
Burnett & Gomperz |
The New and Emerging Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors Today, the public is outraged at Wall Street excesses and angered by revelations of executives who received hefty salaries and severance payments even as their companies dissolved. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2011
Dawn Kawamoto |
Jaguar Could Bag Research In Motion Soon Jaguar Financial has enough support from disgruntled investors to call a special meeting in the next three months to oust RIM's entire board of directors. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2006
S.J. Caplan |
Read Those Proxy Statements in 2006 Shareholder resolutions are an increasingly important vehicle for shareholder activism of all sorts. |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2007
Jena McGregor |
Activist Investors Get More Respect Boards are listening, and shareholder proposals are making headway. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Magyer & Moscovitz |
Let's Fix Board Elections Part of an ongoing series about the Shareholder Bill of Rights currently in Congress. In this article, board elections. Whom will you pick to run the ship? |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 19, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
Activist Board Members Increase Firm's Market Value Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market value of the firm? |
Entrepreneur
February 2005
Nichole L. Torres |
Slip-Slidin' Away? Will a decline in businesses be a downer for entrepreneurs? |
