Is plain English too hard to understand?
Writing this column is a bit like being caught in a time warp in an episode of Star Trek. You’ll be reading it in August, even...
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Boardroom archive
The forgotten investors
The expansion of the rights of equity investors in US public companies carries the potential of substantial risk for bondholders...
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Conference call
Colorado Springs began its life as an urban center known for its open-area spaces in 1871, the height of the American gold rush...
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The director merry-go-round
Os are still getting the axe, and lots of them. By Booz Allen Hamilton’s count of 2,500 global corporations, 14.3 percent of CEOs...
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Democracy for sale
As the proxy season pendulum swings in favor of majority voting, shareholder activism and access, memories of landslide director...
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Accessing the future
Whether you view the SEC’s new ‘notice and access’ rule as terrific or just one more confusing possibility amidst a rapidly...
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new era of privilege
Corporate Secretary magazine has partnered with Foley & Lardner to produce a series of webcasts that will continue throughout the...
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Director matchmaking
In May, the Nasdaq Stock Market launched Board Recruiting (www.boardrecruiting.com), a new service aimed at public and private...
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A five-step framework
The perfect storm of option-accounting began in 2002 with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Once the floodgates were open, a number of other...
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The fine line for UK activists
In May, the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) issued advice in its 'Market Watch' newsletter about shareholder activism...
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