James McRitchie
SharkRepellent.net documents the use of PX14A6G filings surged in 2012, Proponents Increasingly Proactive Promoting Their Issues. According to John Laide’s post, the number of such campaigns had already reached 45, versus 27 during all of last year. Read any good PX14A6G …
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It is common knowledge that people are not driven solely by the prospect of financial rewards. Yet, in business, motivational tools for top executives—particularly the CEO—almost singularly comprise financial incentives. In 1980, only 10 percent of the UK’s largest FTSE100 …
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Just as corporations are facing demands for increased democracy through proxy access proposals and vague protests from Occupy Wall Street, some cooperatives, with long-held democratic values are in danger of shifting in the opposite direction through internal takeovers or dismantlement. …
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It was the last SVNACD event of the season and I’m already looking forward to new programs. Another great program, led by the following: Skip Battle serves as chairman of Fair, Isaac and Company and director of LinkedIn, Sungevity and Workday. …
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On May 8, 2012, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s Silicon Valley office hosted a one day symposium on Weathering a Crisis for corporate leaders and general counsel. Panel discussions focused on how to effectively handle a crisis before it becomes public; how …
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Loren Steffy, of the Houston Chronicle, and Sean Quinn, of the ISS Governance Institute, posted about proxy access and upcoming votes. At Hewlett Packard a shareholder access proposal was withdrawn after the company agreed to sponsor a proposal in 2013 …
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Click here now to tell the SEC to require companies to disclose CEO-to-worker pay ratios. If you own stock, click here to get information on how to vote your shares on “say-on-pay” proxy proposals. The Dodd-Frank act requires it but the …
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According to GMI, rising share prices helped drive a 15% pay hike for CEOs in 2011, with the average compensation package hitting $5.8M. That’s on top of a 28% pay rise in 2010. Inflation was about 2.7% in 2011. The census bureau …
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This was the last of a three part overview of shareholder activism, beginning with the history and an overview of the key players in the space; continuing with a behind-the-scenes look at non-contentious shareholder engagement and how its impacting companies and …
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