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The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
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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?   |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Corporate Boards Need to Wake Up One of investors' biggest problems -- whether they know it or not -- has been a tendency toward ineffective, entrenched boards of directors that don't do their primary job, which is to look out for shareholder interests. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
The Battle for Independence Shareholders need more independent minds and critical thinkers on corporate boards. |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Separation Anxiety and Your Stocks Do your companies use this shareholder-unfriendly practice? Currently, only 40% of all S&P 500 companies have separated the roles of CEO and chairman of the board of directors. |
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
December 28, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Whole Foods' Mackey Shocks Again Here's another surprise from Whole Foods' CEO, John Mackey, who has voluntarily given up the role of chairman of the board |
The Motley Fool
June 16, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Majority Rules! Majority voting standards would let shareholders have their say. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Dayana Yochim |
It's Time for a Shareholder Revolution The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act is the most prominent, widely publicized proposal on corporate governance to come out of this crisis. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Should We Be Like Britain? The UK's mandating corporate governance rules. Should we follow suit? |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
This Secret Weapon Could Save Your Stocks The presence of women in the boardroom could be a little-known advantage for shareholders. |
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. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2012
Jay Lorsch |
Book Excerpt: 'The Future of Boards' In an excerpt from "The Future of Boards," the author discusses why directors are newly questioning their roles. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Ilan Moscovitz |
Let's Fix Director Nominations Should we make it easier for shareholders to nominate their own representatives? |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Corporate Boards Are Broken Extreme measures are needed to get boards to do their jobs. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Trouble at the Top for Whole Foods? We dig a little deeper into a shareholder resolution aimed at the company. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 22, 2003
Martha Lagace |
How to Build a Better Board Boards need to work smarter and with a design in mind, says Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch. Lorsch discusses his new book Back to the Drawing Board, co-written with Colin B. Carter. |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
In 2011, Shareholders Speak Louder Than Ever Your vote as an investor really counts this 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
February 16, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Tenured Tyrants in Corporate America Instead of pink slips, many underwhelming CEOs get fat paychecks. Will that soon change? |
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. |
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
October 19, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
A New Era for Investors Management and boards must be accountable to us, the owners of the companies employing them. That's called capitalism. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
When Companies Do the Right Thing Not every corporation fights its shareholders' requests. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
When "Say on Pay" Is a Must Shouldn't "say on pay" votes be up to shareholders, not legislators? |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2010 |
The Motley Fool's Testimony on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Empowerment Shareholders should have a bigger say in how companies are run. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Let's Fix "Say on Pay" Here's the Shareholder Bill of Rights take on compensation. |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Joseph McCafferty |
Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
CFO
June 1, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Not-So-Modest Proposals For board members the choice is clear: support shareholder proposals that win a majority vote or risk losing the director seat. |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Anthony Malakian |
To Split or Not to Split: That is the Top Question More and more shareholders and analysts are beginning to think that holding the dual title of chairman and CEO either creates inherent conflicts of interest, is poor corporate governance or spreads an executive too thin. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Shareholder Majorities Win Major Victories Policies that encourage better boards have gained traction in 2011. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
Those Who Sit on Company Boards Face a New, Tougher Job Description Two longtime executives and board members talk about the changing role of boards of directors in what they say is becoming an increasingly volatile, litigious and risky environment. |
The Motley Fool
August 27, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
A Shift Toward Shareholder Rights Shareholder-friendly policies may become an increasing priority in corporate America. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2005
Bryson & Gast |
Board Briefing: CEOs on the Board What are the advantages and limitations of CEOs on foundation boards? If the CEO is on the board, should he or she have full voting rights? How do your non-profit colleagues approach this decision? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Corporate Boards Should Focus on Performance, Not Conformance After the corporate governance revolution of the 1990s that led to a new era of accountability to shareholders, the Enron debacle has brought new attention to the role of corporate boards and governance... |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Governance: Backlash In The Executive Suite Many in America's business community say reform is going too far, as activists dig in. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
The Investing Heroes You Never Knew Gadflies like John and Lewis Gilbert help keep corporations honest. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Lori Calabro |
The Prime of Ms. Nell Minow For the prominent shareholder activist, these have been both the best and the worst of times. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2012
Julia Hanna |
The Future of Boards In "The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century," Professor Jay Lorsch brings together experts to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
John Reeves |
Let's Fix Risk Committees Should we require corporate boards to establish risk committees? |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2009
Liz Peek |
"Say on Pay" a Boon for Advisors, but for Shareholders? Shareholder anger about former excesses, and the demand for say-on-pay, is not likely to disappear anytime soon. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 1, 2003
Jim Heskett |
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable? In his newly published book, Authentic Leadership, Bill George reopens this question, based in part on his former role as CEO of a highly respected S&P 500 U.S. corporation. |
U.S. Banker
April 2010
Michael Sisk |
Boardroom Burdens Bank directors must be more hands-on than ever, exercising tighter control over management and setting strategic direction. Here are five issues that need attention now. |
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. |
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 |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Best and Worst Corporate Boards Did any of your companies make the Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame? |
