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• in Small Business
  Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Lazy Brownies
  Free market justice in action.
  by wesherndon / on May 17, 2011
• in Business
  Newsflash: Corporate Boards Still Largely White, Male
  Women and minorities are still greatly underrepresented in the halls of power in this "post-racial", equal rights America. Why?
  by odanu / on May 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “corporate governance”

 

• BP, Fair Trade USA, Delhi International Airport Limited

  
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  Originally published on ESG Insider BP has settled a decade-long series of complaints regarding pollution at an Indiana, US refinery, agreeing to pay $8 million in fines and install $400 million worth of pollution controls at the site. Since at least 2001, the Whiting oil refinery in north-west Indiana has ...
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• Amazon’s Shareholder Spectacle and the Fight Over Seattle

  
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  Curt Woodward Amazon.com’s remarkable growth is remaking the face of downtown Seattle , on a scale far different than any company before it in this city. Today, the e-commerce and cloud-computing pioneer felt some of the growing pains. Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting devolved into a bizarre standoff with ...
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• Spectre of Shell Reapers hangs over AGM

  
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  22 May 2012 At today’s Shell AGM link at the Barbican the suits on the Shell board were given a 3 hour grilling, with questioners focussing attention on its environmental and human rights crimes around the world. Spread throughout the auditorium, hooded London Rising Tide & friends’ grim Shell reapers stood ...
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• Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum

  
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  By a Guest Contributor I have been following this sorry saga of the British and Dutch governments filing a brief with the US courts claiming that a ‘corporation’ could not be held liable for human rights violations and was therefore not subject to human rights laws. Excuse me, but I think it may be time [...]
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• Federal Reserve’s Chinese Bank Determination Has Broader Implications

  
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  Editor’s Note: Margaret E. Tahyar is a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s Financial Institutions Group. This post is based on a Davis Polk publication by Ms. Tahyar, Luigi De Ghenghi , Andrew Fei , and other Davis Polk attorneys; the full version is available here . The Federal Reserve’s decision ...
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• What Does Shell Have in Common With General Ratko Mladic?

  
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  That does Royal Dutch Shell have in common with General Ratko Mladic, former commander of the Bosnian Serb army? More than you’d think… First off, they’ve both appeared in the Hague in the past week. Shell was there Tuesday for its Annual General Meeting with shareholders, and Mladic just days earlier for the ...
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• New and Frozen Frontier Awaits Offshore Oil Drilling

  
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  The Kulluk, seen in Seattle, is one of two Shell drilling ships in the city undergoing final preparations before going to the Arctic. By JOHN M. BRODER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS A version of this article appeared in print on May 24, 2012, on page A1 of the New York edition WASHINGTON — Shortly before Thanksgiving [...]
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• Martha Stewart Returns to a Ghost Town

  
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  Martha Stewart has become chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (NYSE: MSO), the company she founded. Legal trouble had kept her off the board. Now, after a stint as a director, she has moved...
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• DealBook: Martha Stewart Returns as Chairwoman of Her Namesake Company

  
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  Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said Wednesday that Ms. Stewart had been elected nonexecutive chairwoman of the company she founded.
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• Martha Stewart Returns as Chairwoman of Her Namesake Company

  
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  Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said Wednesday that Ms. Stewart had been elected nonexecutive chairwoman of the company she founded.
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• Bracing For The Euro Without Greece… Other PIIGS Too (EWG, EWQ, FXE, EWI, IRE, IRL, NBG, GREK, EWP, STD, BBVA, VGK, FEZ)

  
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  So much for any great help from the ECB, France, Germany, and any other entity being able to help the Euro stay together.  Rumors have been out that nations have been instructed to make contingency...
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• Stevia Nutra Corporation Names New President – MarketWatch (Press Release) Full details here.

  
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  Stevia Nutra Corporation Names New President MarketWatch (press release) Mr. Dicks brings with him over 30 years of senior management experience in financial and corporate governance. Prior to being the Senior Vice President of Visible Innovation Inc. in 2008, Mr. Dicks launched Corporate Financial Planners Inc. in ...
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• Five Boardroom Deficiencies: Early Warning Signals

  
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  At the most recent NACD Director Professionalism ® Course in Charlotte, North Carolina, faculty member Michael Pocalyko, an experienced director and chairman of TherimuneX Pharmaceuticals, described five boardroom deficiencies that he has observed in almost every recent major corporate scandal or failure. In his ...
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• Facebook Deathwatch: Shares Rise on Lawsuits, Investigations, Short Sellers

  
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  After tumbling about -26% in its first three days of trading, stock in Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is up more than 3% just before noon today even as shareholder lawsuits and investigations mount...
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• The Shareholder Spring. Nice idea but will it turn into glorious summer?

  
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  Successful attempts by shareholders to restrict executive bonuses have been hailed as the outbreak of a Shareholder Spring. But, like the Arab Spring, summer may be a long way away According to City A.M., the media group UBM has been the latest organization to experience a Shareholder Spring. More than 47 per ...
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• Toward Effective Governance of Financial Institutions

  
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  Editor’s Note: Lord Adair Turner is chairman of the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority. This post is excerpted from a report from the Group of Thirty, titled Toward Effective Governance of Financial Institutions , available here . The Group of Thirty is a private, nonprofit, international body ...
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• MLP Investors Have to Weigh Risks vs. Rewards This Summer (EPD, KMP, PAA, OKS, ETP, EEP, AMJ, AMLP, KYN)

  
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  The world of master limited partnerships (MLPs) has brought great reward to investors in recent years. 24/7 Wall St. wants to know if the enthusiasm can stay in this sector this summer now that so...
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• CalSTRS: The Dogs Turn on Walmart

  
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  The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), by many measures the second largest pension in the United States, has taken the advice of and has joined proxy advisory firms ISS and...
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• Why the chief learning officer is a CSOs new best friend

  
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  The chief learning officer (CLO) is a position that reflects a seismic shift in the way many corporations now approach their environmental futures.  
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• Shell shareholders latest to warn on executive pay

  
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  May 22, 2012 By Alexis Flynn (Updates with details, context, background throughout.) LONDON (MarketWatch) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSB.LN) shareholders showed their ire over high executive pay with 9% of investors rejecting the company’s remuneration report at Shell’s annual general meeting Tuesday. While ...
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