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HBS Working Knowledge September 1, 2003 Jim Heskett	To Whom Should Boards be Accountable? In his newly published book, Authentic Leadership, Bill George reopens this question, based in part on his former role as CEO of a highly respected S&P 500 U.S. corporation.
CIO June 1, 2002 Raghavan Rajaji	Lessons in Shareholder Value To deliver real value to the business, CIOs must make all investment decisions with the company's long-term goals in mind
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.
CFO October 1, 2002 Jeffrey L. Seglin	Ethics: Good for Goodness' Sake What we mean when we talk about ethics.
BusinessWeek December 25, 2006 Roben Farzad	Financial Power To The People "The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda" is a rich if flawed account of our imperfect shareholder democracy.
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The Motley Fool July 9, 2010 Selena Maranjian	Dear Companies: Forget Shareholder Value! It seems sensible for companies to maximize shareholder value -- especially since shareholders are those companies' owners. But an intriguingly contrary school of thought suggests that CEOs might want to pay a little more attention to customers and employees instead.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz	A New Era for Investors Management and boards must be accountable to us, the owners of the companies employing them. That's called capitalism.
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?
Knowledge@Wharton	Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages?
HBS Working Knowledge August 30, 2006 Bebchuk & Khurana	The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve "star" compensation? Or are they benefiting from a "market myth"?
The Motley Fool October 4, 2004 Bill Mann	Taking Advantage of the Terminally Stupid In a public filing, Concord unveiled a plan to buy back employee options at prices up to $4. The trouble is, with a $9 share price, options granted at $40 are worth basically nothing.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2006 S.J. Caplan	Read Those Proxy Statements in 2006 Shareholder resolutions are an increasingly important vehicle for shareholder activism of all sorts.
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HBS Working Knowledge December 6, 2004 Mallory Stark	Executive Comp: Pay Without Performance Out-of-control executive compensation schemes are "widespread, persistent, and systemic," and new reforms won't clean up the mess, argue two law professors in this Q&A and book excerpt.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2007 Selena Maranjian	The SEC May Shut You Up If you want to keep the right to influence your companies, let the SEC know. The SEC has recently proposed changing rules for shareholders -- in ways that don't seem to protect them at all.
The Motley Fool March 11, 2005 Rich Duprey	CEOs Get the Golden Boot Boards of directors are giving away shareholder money to outgoing executives as compensation for poor performance. Shareholders ought to take note of how their boards deal with management separation.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 David Henry	Mutual Funds: Tossing Out The Rubber Stamp A new SEC rule that takes effect next year will require mutual funds to disclose how they vote on proxies for the stocks they own. The rule is intended to keep funds from siding with management to gain 401(k) business. How will this affect corporate governance?
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The Motley Fool October 26, 2011 Alyce Lomax	Are Special Interests Taking Over Your Companies? Shareholder democracy isn't the problem; passive investing is. I ran a search on Proxy Monitor's site for socially based shareholder resolutions filed at public companies by "special interest" activists from 2008 until the present.
Salon.com October 10, 2000 Janelle Brown	Microsoft's funny money A spunky shareholder resolution demands that the company account for its political campaign contributions...
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Knowledge@Wharton May 21, 2003	Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling?
HBS Working Knowledge July 5, 2006 Joseph Hinsey	Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction Corporate governance reformers are pushing the idea of majority voting for directors. But that solution won't produce the desired outcome. The answer? Keep CEOs and board chairs separate.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2011 Alyce Lomax	Shareholders Want This Power More and more investors agitate for the right to act by written consent.
CFO October 1, 2002	Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals.
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.
InternetNews June 29, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Sparks Fly at Nortel Shareholders Meeting Nortel Networks board members faced scathing criticism from shareholders for failing to detect the accounting irregularities that sent the telecom equipment maker into a tailspin.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2004 Bill Mann	Dual-Class Shares, Second-Class Investors There is a separate, non-traded class of stock that receives 10 votes for each common stock. This means that the non-traded stock shareholders, including the CEO, can dictate terms at the company far in excess of their financial stake.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Louis Lavelle	A Simple Way To Make Boards Behave Requiring directors to win a majority of votes would give shareholders more say. Investors at as many as 100 companies will vote on nonbinding shareholder resolutions urging those companies to adopt majority voting.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Magyer & Moscovitz	Let's Fix Board Elections Part of an ongoing series about the Shareholder Bill of Rights currently in Congress. In this article, board elections. Whom will you pick to run the ship?
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough?
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 May 25, 2004 Chris Mallon	A Proxy for Management The proxy statement gives investors an annual glimpse into the minds of management.
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The Motley Fool May 5, 2006 Selena Maranjian	Think Twice Before Agreeing With Management Did you know that companies in which you own stock may be doing things you don't like, and you may be giving them your blessing? Investors, proxy voting probably doesn't work the way you think it does.
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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...
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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.
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HBS Working Knowledge October 27, 2008 Sean Silverthorne	Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits Nonprofit boards and executives are confronted by a confusing landscape of conflicting demands, rapidly evolving rules, and changing opportunities for finding resources.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2007 Selena Maranjian	Shareholders Are Winning ... Slowly CEO overcompensation is gradually being challenged in corporate America by shareholders, through resolutions and annual meeting proposals.
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U.S. Banker May 2007 Karen Krebsbach	Executive Pay, Still in the Hot Seat Shareholders are trying to gain more influence on executive pay as more resolutions hit the agenda at firms' annual meetings. But passage is proving to be tough.