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Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
David A. Geracioti |
Bob Monks' 30-Year Crusade Monks, author of The New Global Investors, argues that shareholders, especially large institutional investors, have become passive, essentially abandoning their responsibility of overseeing the behavior of executives who are charged to serve them, and the common good.   |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Ann Therese Palmer |
Watching the Insiders An interview with Nell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library, a research group that evaluates corporate governance policies, on why a rep should consider a company's corporate governance when deciding which stocks to purchase for a client. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Best and Worst Corporate Boards Did any of your companies make the Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame? |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Lori Calabro |
The Prime of Ms. Nell Minow For the prominent shareholder activist, these have been both the best and the worst of times. |
BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004 |
Investors Fight Back From the Netherlands to South Korea, corporate boards are taking major steps to improve shareholder rights in the wake of financial scandals. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2008
Rich Duprey |
When Good Isn't Good Enough A new study shows that good corporate governance scores don't really help predict trouble. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A Global View of Corporate Governance: One Size Doesn't Fit All Does corporate governance operate the same way in any economy? That has been a point of contention among academics and economists. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Can This Factor Improve Your Returns? Too many shareholders forget one crucial element. Companies plagued by self-centered, short-sighted managers could easily foreshadow lousy investment results to come. |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006
Emily Thornton |
ISS Looks Like It's Channeling Icahn The proxy advisory firm says Fifth Third's CEO should go despite stellar governance. |
Financial Advisor
September 2009
Marla Brill |
Sustainability Indexes: Pros And Cons Environmental, social and governance criteria are the basis. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Ann Therese Palmer |
Governance Alpha It sounds nice: Making money by investing in companies guided by enlightened executives. But do companies that play nicely really outperform those companies who are controlled by selfish and greedy executives? |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2003
Jill Jusko |
Shareholder Advocacy in High Gear CEOs, boards risk black eyes if they don't respond. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Should We Be Like Britain? The UK's mandating corporate governance rules. Should we follow suit? |
BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004
Capel et al. |
Europe's Old Ways Die Fast The two-year bear market, and a slew of homegrown corporate scandals, is spurring European shareholders to stand up for their rights. |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Joseph McCafferty |
Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Governance: Backlash In The Executive Suite Many in America's business community say reform is going too far, as activists dig in. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2011 |
Nell Minow on Apple, HP, and What Enables Bad Boards The queen of good corporate governance doesn't sugarcoat the problems facing several large, well-known companies in the news. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2007
Charles Keenan |
Pillars of Good Governance REIT corporate governance is among the best in the United States and boards across the industry remain highly focused on corporate performance and strategy. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Shareholders Step on the Gas Shareholders are indeed owners, and that should mean having a voice and advocating for change as needed. Maybe that's why corporate governance issues appear to be gaining momentum. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2004
Hamid R. Moghadam |
Value of Good Governance Every public REIT should have a strong board that is independent and has some skin in the game that ensures the board members' interests are well aligned with those of shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2011
Dominguez & Esterhuizen |
Board Risk: List of Companies With Low Corporate Governance Risk Do you think these boards have shareholders' interests as a top priority? |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Corporate Governance Gets Greener Environmental issues are gaining ground in the boardroom. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Craig Schneider |
Transatlantic Answers Can U.S. regulators improve corporate governance at home by looking overseas? |
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Eric Rasmussen |
Counting On Green The BP disaster has thrown a spotlight on environmental, social and governance data. |
BusinessWeek
January 15, 2007
Jena McGregor |
This Proxy Season, Expect A Brawl Add up shareholder anger over the backdating scandal, a slate of new rules on executive pay disclosure, increasing pressure from activist hedge funds, and more companies requiring directors to be elected by a majority shareholder vote, and a tempestuous proxy period lies ahead. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
A Shadowy Risk for Shareholders Activist investors could push corporations to disclose political campaign donations. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Corporate Boards Should Focus on Performance, Not Conformance After the corporate governance revolution of the 1990s that led to a new era of accountability to shareholders, the Enron debacle has brought new attention to the role of corporate boards and governance... |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2011
Alexander Crawford |
Breakout Ideas: 10 Stocks Near Lows With Strong Corporate Governance Do you think these companies are in a position to overcome the trend and rise from their recent lows? |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2009
Jennifer Schonberger |
Corporate America's Biggest Problem? Corporate governance expert Nell Minow tells Fools the one thing she would change about boardrooms. "We get a lot of information about real property, and not that much information about the people, education, relationships, and ability," she said. |
CFO
September 1, 2004
John Goff |
Who's the Boss? Spurred by a slew of portfolio-punishing accounting scandals and angered by decades of corporate indifference to their requests, shareholder activists want more say in how American companies are run. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2005
Rich Duprey |
S&P Ratings a Zero The credit rating agency ends its corporate governance evaluation service. Considering that it was up to the end user to decide whether to make S&P corporate governance score (CGS) ratings public, the ratings' value to the investing public was probably minimal. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 9, 2004
Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Bring Shareholders into the Board Room How can we improve board performance? One way is by reducing the extent to which boards are insulated from, and unaccountable to, shareholders. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Dees Stribling |
Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry. |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
More Rules, Higher Profits? New research shows that good governance practices may reduce your cost of capital. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Ann Therese Palmer |
Activist Capitalists Today, corporate governance analysts are legion. Here's what two key corporate governance experts say about nuances on corporate governance analysis. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2005
Matthew Bechard |
Earning Praise Publicly traded real estate companies have become the pillars of good governance. However, while total returns and dividend yields are easily quantifiable numbers with direct bearings on shareholder interest, corporate governance is not so easily measured. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Cisco in Reverse CEO John Chambers adds the title of chairman. Here's what that means: Chambers is now, in effect, his own boss. He represents both management and shareholders. Checks and balances? What are those? |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Bad News for News Corp. News Corp.'s recent phone-hacking scandal has revealed just how big a risk poor corporate governance policies can pose to shareholder value. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
The Investing Heroes You Never Knew Gadflies like John and Lewis Gilbert help keep corporations honest. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Lauren Young |
Report Cards On Governance Morningstar and ISS both give grades on corporate governance, but their rating systems differ widely. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2003
James B. Wright |
Governing REIT Compensation As recent well-publicized REIT proxy/management battles have demonstrated, REIT governance issues are no longer under the radar. In time, shareholder concerns (and any REIT vulnerabilities) relative to independent compensation decisions will also receive scrutiny. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2009
Chris Jones |
Does Good Governance Make Great Stocks? Reemphasizing the importance of shareholder rights. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Shareholder Rights and Corporate Performance Corporate boards have long adopted techniques to stave off hostile takeovers. Shareholders' organizations have generally decried such techniques. So far, the research indicates the shareholders' groups have it right... |
Entrepreneur
December 2005
C.J. Prince |
Smooth Moves Implementing Sarbox-style strategic governance changes can help small businesses woo - -and win - more big customers. |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2005
Jill Jusko |
Beefed Up Boards More diligent and accountable, today's directors are scrutinizing executive compensation like never before -- and changing the dynamic of the board-management relationship. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Ronald Fink |
Other People's Money To encourage fund managers to act solely in the interests of shareholders, activists want their proxy votes disclosed. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Germany Inc.: Come Clean Or Else If German companies don't improve governance, new laws will force change. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 8, 2005 |
Readers Respond: Is There an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation? Readers offer varying viewpoints and solutions on the topic of CEO compensation. |
Knowledge@Wharton
December 18, 2002 |
Re-Examining the Role of the Chairman of the Board Faculty members at Wharton and a board member of a major U.S. corporation say that while there are some circumstances in which a division of authority between a chairman and a CEO may make sense, it is by no means a surefire way to keep companies on the straight and narrow. |
