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2. Shareholders Are Trying to Pressure Jeff Bezos into Cutting Off Amazon's Deals to Sell Facial Recognition to Police Departments
  
  Explore Business Insider 19 hours, 35 min ago BoardNews
  
  ...... Civil rights groups and a shareholders are putting pressure on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling the Amazon Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. The groups raise privacy concerns,...
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3. Shareholders Reject Bid to Link Google Diversity to Exec Pay
  
  Explore sfgate.com Jun 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...was challenged by eBay, excluded from Apple's shareholder meeting by financial regulators, and withdrawn from Amazon on a technicality. Intel, Microsoft and IBM, however, have established some kind of link between pay an...
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4. Tech Company Shareholder Meetings Turn Testy as Backlash Grows -
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Jun 6 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...meeting last week to create an independent chairman to stop letting Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos "treat Amazon like his personal sandbox." Bezos said all large institutions, including corporations, should invite sc...
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5. Everything Must Go: After More Closings, There Will Be 820 Sears and Kmart Stores, Down from 2,000
  
  Explore The Washington Post May 31 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...iving consumers yet another reason to avoid its stores. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.) “This company is on life support,” said Sucharita Kodali, a retail analyst ...
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6. Why You Should Serve on a Board Now
  
  Explore robbreport.com May 29 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...n any number of companies are clamoring for more women on the board of directors. An investor group pressured Amazon after a woman employee publicly accused an executive of sexually harassing her last fall. In Nevada, th...
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7. CEO Pay Ratio Disclosures Provide Little More Than Noise for Investors
  
  Explore MarketWatch May 25 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...s’s holding of Amazon stock bulged by well over $33 billion in 2017–recent filings show he owned 78.9 million Amazon shares–his compensation from the company was just $1.68 million. That included a salary of $81,840 and ...
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8. Target: A Financially Absent Board
  
  Explore Stock Market News & Financial Analysis May 24 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...isdom that physical retail is dead in the face of online competition. Indeed, we've argued that the growth of Amazon (AMZN) over the last several years isn't unprecedented and, at least so far, actually rather closely tr...
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9. World's 50 Greatest Leaders
  
  Explore fortune.com May 21 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...news” was even a thing, the Danish-born EU commissioner was thoughtfully and assiduously regulating Big Tech. Amazon, Google, and their ilk may be disruptive, they may even be changing the world, but Vestager—an iPhone u...
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10. Amazon's 10-person Board Only Has Three Women. That's On Par With the Company's Peers.
  
  Explore Recode May 16 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ... retail and media companies that Amazon self-identifies as its peers. On average, the boards of the companies Amazon considers its peers — Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, General Electric, Honeywe...
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11. Amazon Drops Resistance to Proposal Requiring it Interview Women, Blacks, Hispanics for Board
  
  Explore usatoday.com May 15 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...e Congressional Hispanic Caucus notedÂ that of 105 top executives at Amazon, only one is Hispanic. Only 5% of Amazon's managers are Hispanic.Â "With Hispanics accounting for the nation's largest minority group and nearly...
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12. Amazon Says its Board has Adopted a "Rooney Rule" to Increase Board Diversity, After its Initial Opposition Sparked Employee Outrage
  
  Explore Techmeme May 14 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... said on Monday that it would adopt a policy whereby women — The company says it is merely formalizing a practice that was already in place. — Amazon said on Monday that it would adopt a policy whereby women …...
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13. John Berlau to SEC Commissioner Jackson: Companies Going Private and Delisting to Escape Regulatory Costs Have Contributed to a Massive Decline in the Total Number of Public Companies
  
  Explore crowdfundinsider.com May 14 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...eness, before SOX, 80% of firms going public had IPOs of less than $50 million. Cisco Systems, Starbucks, and Amazon all had IPOs below $50 million from the early to late ‘90s. A few years after SOX, however, 80% of firm...
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14. Amazon Shareholders are Getting Opposite Advice on Whether Diversity should be mandated
  
  Explore Recode May 12 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... also taken, leading to outrage among some employees inside the giant online retailer. Glass Lewis noted that Amazon’s board already has three female directors. “We believe that race and gender are but two aspects of div...
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15. Report: Amazon Board’s Diversity Stance Draws Fire From Amazon Employees
  
  Explore FastCompany.com May 8 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...anies?” You can read the full Recode post here. Update: Amazon has provided Fast Company with this statement: Amazon has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity and inclusion. These are enduring values fo...
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16. Tesla is on the Brink of a Major shift that will Completely Change How its Stock Trades
  
  Explore Business Insider May 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...used as proxies to hedge against the broader stock market, according to S3. That includes the likes of Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Facebook, and Alphabet, which are all included in the most-shorted list above. The...
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