Getting the green light
Last October the SEC issued Staff Bulletin No 14E, making it much simpler for shareholders to file resolutions on climate change...
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Regulatory & compliance archive
Cleaning house
The year 2009 will be remembered primarily for the calamitous recession and the regulatory authorities’ haphazard and...
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Who reports to whom?
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer recently paid a $2.3 billion fine, one of the largest settlements in US corporate history, partly for...
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Leading the way
Great corporate governance and effective risk management have always been ideals most companies strive for, and recently the...
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The search for the Holy Grail
In awarding Cisco the honor of best overall governance, compliance and ethics program in the large-cap category, judges noted the...
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The power of conversation
A group of corporate secretaries and other governance professionals, many of them in New York for the second annual Corporate...
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Death of the IPO
David Weild, a board member of the National Investor Relations Institute’s New York chapter, has been getting a lot of attention...
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Navigating the new landscape
As the global economy shows nascent signs of being on the road to recovery, many businesses are looking to adapt quickly to take...
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Labor lawsuits: the next hot thing
Starbucks. Smith & Wollensky. Rapper Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club. In New York and elsewhere across the US, these popular spots have made...
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In the line of fire
One of the most overused lines in the corporate world is: ‘It’s not personal, it’s just business.’ Try telling that to any one of...
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