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“Say on Pay” Gets Its Day
Author: Hyatt, James
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Corporate Responsibility Officer
Publication Year: 2007
"Say-on Pay" legislation, which passed the House in April by a 2-1 margin, faces a less certain fate in the Senate. The "Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act" would require companies to allow a nonbinding vote on compensation disclosed in proxy statements, starting in 2009...
Leading the Executive Options Playing Field
Author: Desai, Mihir
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Working Knowledge
Publication Year: 2007
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they report to shareholders...
Call for End to Quarterly Guidance
Author: Guerrera, Francesco
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Financial Times
Publication Year: 2007
Recent publication of the new set of corporate principles -– masterminded by the Aspen Institute, an influential not-for-profit group -– underlines corporate America's fear that the focus on quarterly results is hampering US companies' long-term prospects and the country's economic competitiveness...
Shareholders Push Social and Environmental Issues to the Forefront
Author: Odell, Anne Moore
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: SocialFunds.com
Publication Year: 2007
With weeks still left in the US proxy season, the 2007 season is on track to set new record highs for the number of social and environmental resolutions in front of shareholders. As of the end of May, there were 359 social and environmental resolutions proposed, reports the Social Investment Forum (SIF), the national association for the social investment industry. SIF used data supplied from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)...
AFL-CIO
Authors: Khurana, Rakesh; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
The AFL-CIO Office of Investigation advocates for improved corporate governance at public companies, focusing on the problems of excessive chief executive compensation, improperly backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. To advance its cause, the Office targeted Home Depot. This case illustrates how activist investors are affecting corporate boards by questioning the quality and practices of their governance practices.
Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Executive Compensation
Author: Levine, David I.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Publication Year: 2007
There are many ways in which poorly designed incentives schemes reward executives for destroying long-term shareholder value...
America Works
Author: Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Publication Year: 2007
The U.S. labor market is the most laissez faire of any developed nation, with a weak social safety net and little government regulation compared to Europe or Japan.
Will The Real Chris Cox Please Stand Up?
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Forbes.com
Publication Year: 2007
On the Friday before Christmas, when not a creature was stirring, not even the press, Cox stepped back from his mission of making executive compensation disclosure more complete...
Executive Compensation at Nabors Industries
Authors: Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2007
Goes beyond the headline numbers reported in the press to discuss appropriate levels and structure of executive compensation, and put executive compensation in the context of a company's industry, position within the industry, and financial situation.
Morgan Stanley, 2005
Authors: Campa, J.; Oleaga, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2007
This case is designed in order to discuss if some practices of Morgan Stanley's Board of Directors followed the best interest of shareholders and whether or not they comply with the good practices of the Corporate Governance Code.
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