Trillium & Green Century Mark Citizens United Anniversary With Resolutions...
On the 2nd anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, two investment firms announce that they have filed shareholder resolutions at three companies, Bank of America, 3M & Target...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Because Only People are People
Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, the same big corporations and billionaires that destroyed our economy and caused millions of us to lose our jobs and homes, are spending obscene amounts...
View ArticleProxy Filings to Address Citizens United
More than 40 investors joined in filing and co-filing the resolution seeking comprehensive disclosure of corporate lobbying. Among them are New York State Common Retirement Funds, Walden Asset...
View ArticleKBR Moves Out of the Corporate Governance Stone Age
Last year, KBR sued investor and USPX member John Chevedden after he submitted a proxy proposal seeking annual elections, rather than the current system of staggered three year terms. As reported by...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Report Securities Fraud
The FBI announced a new public service announcement featuring Michael Douglas, soliciting tips and information on securities fraud and insider trading. This is part of the continued push—and focus on a...
View ArticleVideo Friday: 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuY7GnmabfA Since we launched this video in late January, more than 125,000 people have watched it as it has bounced around the digital globe. The video, which comes to...
View ArticleWhere's the Boss? And What Counts as "Work"?
Last week the Wall Street Journal printed an article describing how CEOs around the world spend their time. The article drew on data from a larger study, the Executive Time Use Project, and relied on...
View ArticleWhistleblower Systems Examined in Conference Board Report
Fredrick D. Lipman provides several insights to Conference Board readers drawn from his recent book Whistleblowers: Incentives, Disincentives, and Protection Strategies (Wiley Corporate F&A). ....
View ArticleMurdoch Exits Post at BSkyB
Reacting to the news that James Murdoch is standing down as BSkyB chair, Alan MacDougall, managing director of PIRC, said: This decision was inevitable. The combination of parliamentary and regulatory...
View ArticleSVNACD: Red Flags of an Ethical Collapse & Alternative Proxy Voting Advice to...
It was the last SVNACD event of the season and I’m already looking forward to the fall for new programs. Another great program, led by the following: Skip Battle serves as chairman of Fair, Isaac and...
View ArticleAudio Friday: Fraud Investigations
If you have ever been a victim of a fraud, you know how difficult it is to determine what steps to take to recover your losses. You understand that reporting your experience is only the first step,...
View ArticleProxyVote.com Encourages Zombie Voting
Proxyvote.com encourages voting by retail shareholders by allowing them to, with one click, set all votes “for” a corporate board’s recommendations, from electing directors and approving executive pay...
View ArticleGuest Post: Performance of Indian Boards
The following is a guest post by by Sonia Jaspal from her blog, Sonia Jaspal’s RiskBoard, originally posted on June 12, 2012. I’ve added a few links, a couple of ads and reformatted the post slightly....
View ArticleWayback Machine
It has been months, maybe years, since we’ve slipped into the “wayback machine.” Here we go. Let’s have some fun. Five years ago this month at CorpGov.net. Oops, like much of the old site, these items...
View ArticleUnited States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm: Mafia Tactics on...
Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia. Of course, you won’t hear the recent financial corruption case, United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and...
View ArticleBook Review: Owning Our Future
Marjorie Kelly is the rarest of authors, discussing some of the most difficult problems we face but doing so through an easily understood narrative of her own search for answers that is bound to draw...
View ArticleSEC’s Authority at Risk?
The United States Constitution was written on 4 pages in 1787. Now there are over 80,000 pages of regulations in the Federal Registry. In a time mired by fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption, in both...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Tipping Off the SEC
Watch the What Happens to Tips (in wmv format) by the SEC’s Sean McKessy, Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower, and/or read the transcript below. As Broc Romanek noted, “for the most part, it...
View ArticleSEC Issues First Whistleblower Payout
A whistleblower who helped the Securities and Exchange Commission stop a multi-million dollar fraud will receive nearly $50,000 — the first payout from a new SEC program to reward people who provide...
View ArticleStep Into the Corporate Governance Way Back Machine
Time to step into the way back machine to see what we were reporting on 5, 10 and 15 years ago. Five Years Ago @ CorpGov.net: The Main Topic was Proxy Access Julie Fox Gorte, PhD., Senior Vice...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Holly Gregory on Conflicts of Interest
On This Week in the Boardroom (TWIB) TK Kerstetter, President,Corporate Board Member, discusses what conflicts of interest can mean to the company, board and individual director, with Holly Gregory,...
View Article100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior
CHESTER, NEW JERSEY, January 14, 2013. Trust Across America, global leaders in information, standards and data, and Who’s Who in trustworthy business has selected 2013’s Top 100 Thought Leaders in...
View ArticleReview: Whistleblower Laws
In The Successes and Failures of Whistleblower Laws, Robert G. Vaughn puts his life-long interest in perspective. A background with Nader’s Raiders studying federal agencies, work as an attorney...
View ArticleCalPERS Governance: Election Reforms
Testimony of James McRitchie Finance & Administration Committee, Agenda Item 6b, February 18, 2014 (Staff Report) As the Harold Stassen of CalPERS, having run for the Board more times...
View ArticleEMC Corporation (EMC): How I Voted – Proxy Score 13
EMC Corporation $EMC is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 4/30/2014. ProxyDemocracy.org had collected the votes of four funds when I checked and voted on...
View ArticleTalk is Cheap: The Board's Role in an Ethical Culture
As Advertised: Board resolve can be critical to the development of an effective ethical culture — defined as the values that inform the behavior toward the organization’s stakeholders. Features of an...
View ArticleITC Holdings (ITC): Proxy Voting Recommendations
ITC Holdings $ITC, is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 5/21/2014. ProxyDemocracy.org had collected the votes of no funds when I checked and voted on 5/15/2014. I...
View ArticleCairn India Limited: Corporate Governance Alert
Cairn India is an oil and gas exploration and production company, headquartered in Gurgaon, India. It is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources. Cairn India is one of the largest independent oil and gas...
View ArticleCalPERS Sets Bad Example Regarding Dissent by Directors
Public dissent by directors should be encouraged, not penalized. If we don’t learn where directors stand on the issues and how they differ from each other, how do we know who to vote for? Two actions...
View ArticleVideo Friday: UK Law Commission Clarifies Fiduciary Duty?
The UK Law Commission’s final 2014 report and guidance on fiduciary duty: The Review identified widespread concern about how fiduciary duties were interpreted in the context of investment. In...
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