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BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 Grover & Lowry |
Now It's Time To Say Goodbye How Disney's board can move beyond the Eisner era |
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. |
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? |
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 Ronald Grover |
Can Michael Eisner Hold The Fort? Having fired the first volley, Disney stockholders are in no mood to back off |
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 March 29, 2004 Eliot Cohen |
Lies, Half-Truths, and Hubris Help the SEC make the right choice about fairer elections for boards of directors. Corporate insiders are spouting lies, half-truths, and hubris to prevent investors from getting a whiff of fairer elections for boards of directors. |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2004 Aaron Byrd |
Disney: Notes From the Front Line Even after Disney shareholders voiced their lack of confidence in staggering numbers, the board installed an existing member as the new chairman. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2005 W.D. Crotty |
It's Getting Goofy at Disney Former Disney board members want to shake up the company's board. What happens if they succeed? Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Grover & Lavelle |
Eisner's Goofy Timetable CEO Michael Eisner's waning days at Disney may not follow a happy script. Two more years at the helm won't fix what ails Disney. |
BusinessWeek March 8, 2004 Grover & Lowry |
Get Mickey II: The Plot Thickens Comcast may well make a fresh bid for Walt Disney -- and throw in some cash. |
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Amy Borrus |
At The SEC, The Agony Of Compromise Chairman Donaldson is finding a deal on proxy reform elusive in an election year. Yet, despite competing pressures, his resolve shows no sign of waning. |
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Joseph Weber |
One Share, Many Votes With two classes of stock, the usual tools for keeping management in line are dulled |
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 |
An Acid Test for Boards Institutional Shareholder Services is making financial performance a metric for supporting directors' reelection. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Braces for Battle CalPERS takes another California company to task. "We have lost complete confidence in Mr. Eisner's strategic vision and leadership in creating shareholder value in the company," the pension said in a biting press release. |
BusinessWeek March 6, 2006 Amy Borrus |
Should Directors Be Nervous? Activists are pushing majority-vote rules as a weapon against unresponsive boards. |
CFO September 1, 2010 Joseph McCafferty |
Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
The Motley Fool March 9, 2004 D. Gardner & T.Gardner |
Eisner's Surreal Ouster Why shareholders sided with Disney over Eisner. |
The Motley Fool May 14, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Shareholders Take Action Here are some tips on how to make a difference with your holdings. |
BusinessWeek June 16, 2011 John Helyar |
Investor 'Say on Pay' Is a Bust Shareholder votes rejected executive pay at less than 2 percent of public companies this year. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek June 11, 2007 Jena McGregor |
Activist Investors Get More Respect Boards are listening, and shareholder proposals are making headway. |
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 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. |
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. |
U.S. Banker June 2006 Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
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. |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2005 Bill Barker |
History Is Made, for Now At yesterday's annual meeting, Flamel's shareholders made history. All proposals to re-elect the former directors were rejected by voting shareholders. |
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 February 20, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Get Out and Vote! Proxy voting lets your shareholder voice be heard. |
Fast Company May 2004 Charles Fishman |
For Disney, the Story Not Told The Disney shareholder showdown was as long as an epic. Too bad it didn't have an epic hero. |
U.S. Banker June 2005 Karen Krebsbach |
Purcell's (Very Public) Predicament The bruising power struggle at Morgan Stanley is taking its toll, as the company's stock price stalls and talent walks. The escalating conflict is weakening the No. 2 investment bank, making it ripe for a takeover. |
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Roy Mark |
Disney Rejects Comcast's Takeover Bid Board leaves door open for higher bid from the cable ISP player. |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2004 D. Gardner & T. Gardner |
Time for Eisner to Go? David and Tom Gardner talk about the Disney CEO's dismal doings. |
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. |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2004 Bill Mann |
Comcast's Hostile Tango Comcast has approached Disney, putting in a $66 billion takeover bid. Disney CEO Michael Eisner may be opposed, but the company's board may find Comcast a perfect harbor from the storm that's swirling around the House of Mouse. |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2009 Jack Milligan |
For BofA, a Year of Living Dangerously While some might resent it, strong CEOs sometimes need strong boards to protect them from themselves. |
BusinessWeek December 15, 2003 Ronald Grover |
Keeping The Keys To The Kingdom Critics have plenty of bones to pick with Michael Eisner -- and they'll keep picking. |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2004 Tim Beyers |
Don't Waste Your Vote Every year, as a shareholder, you're given the chance to have a say in how the companies you own are run. Don't blow it. Vote. |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Time to Get Out the Vote A full slate of annual meetings is upcoming. If you're an owner, it's time to crack those proxies and go vote. |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
From Corporate Excess to Excessive Embarrassment Sheer humiliation could be a great tool to push for better corporate behavior from executives at Bank of America. |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2004 D. Gardner & T. Gardner |
Disney Disses Shareholders Eisner and Mitchell remain despite significant shareholder dissent. |
The Motley Fool April 5, 2010 Jeffrey Morgan |
Corporate America Wants Your Vote Why we should all care about corporate governance. |
The Motley Fool December 22, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Activists End the Year Fighting Here's a prediction for next year: More big battles are brewing on the corporate governance front. |
The Motley Fool April 9, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Gray Lady May See Colorful Meeting Advisory report urges New York Times shareholders to withhold votes for directors. Investors should be advised to remain mere observers of this and other newspaper-related dramas. |
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. |
CFO August 1, 2006 Roy Harris |
Delaware Rules Heated debates over Disney's governance, director independence, and executive pay will likely be resolved in Delaware's Chancery Court. |
The Motley Fool April 12, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Goodyear: Management 3, Reform 0 Unions' and shareholders' proposals get torpedoed at the tiremaker's annual meeting. Investors, take note. |
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. |
CFO August 1, 2006 Don Durfee |
More Rules, Higher Profits? New research shows that good governance practices may reduce your cost of capital. |