Challenging shareholder value primacy
Ever considered how much employee and customer loyalty are worth? The board of privately held grocery chain Market Basket – all...
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Protecting non-US whistleblowers from retaliation
Compliance officers' jobs just got a little tougher. Last week, a federal appellate court dismissed an appeal of the New York...
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From Twitter to Hootsuite: a primer for the unplugged director
Our college graduates can’t write!’ is the kind of provocative statement that Bruce Nolop, chairman of Marsh & McLennan’s audit...
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Opening the cyber-kimono
The high-profile hackings of Target and Wyndham Worldwide have spurred lawsuits against corporate officers and directors...
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An era of more rigorous disclosure
It might be said that publicly traded companies stand at the precipice of a new, more rigorous age of disclosure. Not only are...
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A bigger push for political spending disclosure
If there is any doubt that we’re entering an era of more rigorous disclosure for which public companies need to be prepared...
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Data breaches: legal limitation
Not a month goes by that the media isn’t reporting another major data security breach, typically involving
customer credit card...
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Broadening the use of board portals
Senior executives spend much of their lives on planes and in airport clubs, but what about
living inside the company board portal...
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Improving engagement with retail shareholders
Typically, when we think of shareholder engagement, it’s outreach to key institutional investors that comes to mind. We think of...
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Data privacy wars
The May ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that declared Google not only a processor but also ‘a controller of personal...
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