Tomorrow, GMI Ratings launches Global LeaderBoard (GLB), an online research and data-visualization tool designed to deepen the analysis of corporate governance practices that can materially affect issuer risk. GLB maps complex relationship patterns at the individual, organizational, industry and regional levels. Among many other insights, GLB allows subscribers to identify corporate interlocks ...
comments, called-out + Comment now + Comment now According to BusinessDictionary.com, corporate governance is “The Framework of rules and practices by which a board of directors ensures accountability, fairness, and transparency in a company’s relationship with its all stakeholders.” OECD.org defines it as the “Procedures and processes according to which an organisation is directed and controlled. The corporate governance structure specifies the
comments, called-out + Comment now + Comment now And now, the rebuttal. This morning, Netflix announced that it has adopted a poison pill shareholder rights plan as a defense against unfriendly attempts to take control of the company. The plan kicks in when an unwanted suitor’s ownership position hits 10%. As it happens, investor Carl Icahn last week revealed that he has acquired just shy of 10% of the company’s shares. Here’s Icahn’
In a new twist in a case that is spurring discussion about corporate governance in Taiwan, a court there has ordered the reinstatement of two candidates for independent board seats that had been disqualified by the China Petrochemical Development Corp. just before a sign-up deadline ahead of its June 27 board election, according to according ...
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Six years ago, I wrote a post on my blog in the wake of the departure of HP’s (HPQ) then-Chairman Pattie Dunn. I said then that the problem then wasn’t Dunn, but HP’s board. Since this post, Mark Hurd departed under a cloud, Leo Apotheker was hired and fired in less than a year. What’s interesting, as I re-read the post is that 3 members of the 2006 board are still there today: Larry Babbio, Sari Baldauf, and John Hammergren. They seem to have imparted the same kinds of dysfunctionality that p
4 comments, 0 called-out + Comment now + Comment now B.C. Forbes, the founder of FORBES magazine, dedicated the first issue to women in business. “Forbes believes her achievements are wide,” he wrote, predicting that women “will soon sit on boards beside men.” That was in 1917, recalled B.C.’s granddaughter, Moira Forbes, at the Center for Talent Innovation’s annual Summit earlier this month. Now nearly 100 years later, the de
