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HBS Working Knowledge December 6, 2004 Mallory Stark	Executive Comp: Pay Without Performance Out-of-control executive compensation schemes are "widespread, persistent, and systemic," and new reforms won't clean up the mess, argue two law professors in this Q&A and book excerpt.
BusinessWeek March 6, 2006 Amy Borrus	Should Directors Be Nervous? Activists are pushing majority-vote rules as a weapon against unresponsive boards.
Knowledge@Wharton May 21, 2003	Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling?
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 Gail Edmondson	Germany Inc.: Come Clean Or Else If German companies don't improve governance, new laws will force change.
CFO August 1, 2006 Don Durfee	More Rules, Higher Profits? New research shows that good governance practices may reduce your cost of capital.
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.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Balfour & Tashiro	In Asia, A Change In Attitude A combination of government initiatives, pressure from global institutional investors, and the efforts of grassroots investor groups have shaken things loose in many Asian boardrooms. Increasingly, board members and executives who abuse minority shareholders can expect to be challenged.
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HBS Working Knowledge September 8, 2003	To Whom Should Boards be Accountable? Readers Respond It is imperative for each board to state its guiding principles publicly in advance of any pressing decision... When the board deviates from long- and short-term shareholder interests, it creates a vacuum that no other part of the corporation can fill.... etc.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Capel et al.	Europe's Old Ways Die Fast The two-year bear market, and a slew of homegrown corporate scandals, is spurring European shareholders to stand up for their rights.
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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.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004	Investors Fight Back From the Netherlands to South Korea, corporate boards are taking major steps to improve shareholder rights in the wake of financial scandals.
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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.
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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.
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Amy Borrus	At The SEC, The Agony Of Compromise Chairman Donaldson is finding a deal on proxy reform elusive in an election year. Yet, despite competing pressures, his resolve shows no sign of waning.
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BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 David Henry	A Wake-Up Call From Investors CEOs are being grilled like never before in conference calls run for shareholders.
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The Motley Fool May 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Shareholders Step on the Gas Shareholders are indeed owners, and that should mean having a voice and advocating for change as needed. Maybe that's why corporate governance issues appear to be gaining momentum.
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BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Bernstein & Borrus	Labor Sharpens Its Pension Sword Unions are using their shareholder clout -- and pickets -- to lean on employers.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Your Stocks' Secrets Investors, knowledge is power, so don't ignore a freely available source of the best-kept corporate secrets -- the proxy statement. Proxy season is upon us -- don't forget to do your homework.
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.
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Fast Company June 2002 Robert Simons	Memo to: CEOs Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo -- Five Half-truths of Business -- as a wake-up call...
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