corporate governance

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• Fleecing Stockholders

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 624
  I’ve always been interested in the moral disconnect that frequently comes when huge companies owned by numerous, faceless stockholders hire CEOs  to tend their stakes.  It’s a bit like thinking the way I did when I was a kid watching farmers bring their livestock to the Pig Palace in Omaha.  I thought they were ...
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• Nils Pratley: Banks unlikely to name top 20 earners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  One of the most startling statistics to emerge during the clean-up operation on the banks was that 200 individuals at Royal Bank of Scotland used to earn more than the old boss, Sir Fred Goodwin. Lord Myners, the City minister, produced that gem a few months ago and named his source as Goodwin himself. Nobody has ...
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• Former Sugar Land manager charged with bribing Mexican officials

  
  NewsWatch: Energy — Authority: 575
  The former head of a Sugar Land electric equipment business has been indicted and arrested for taking part in a scheme to bribe Mexican government officials to secure work with that countrys state-owned electric utility. John Joseph OShea, 57, currently...
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• Executives stayed wealthy as firms they should have managed failed

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 141
  NYT: Executives Kept Wealth as Firms Failed, Louise Story, November 22, 2009 Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers paid their executives largely in stock, and that stock lost most or all of its value when those companies collapsed. Many people on Wall Street say these examples help make the case that pay incentives ...
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• Will Increasing Proxy Access for Shareholders Lead to Chaos?

  
  Corporate Compliance Insights — Authority: 421
  The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article from Clark Judge and Richard Torrenzano regarding the likely effect of the expected 2010 vote by the SEC to grant additional proxy access to shareholders. (This is only a summary of the article. Click on the headline to view the entire article at Corporate Compliance ...
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• Michael Hiltzik: The return of Keynes

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 665
  Few outside university economics departments may have noticed that the dramatic trend in recent decades toward the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands coincided with the ouster of Keynesian economics from policymaking in the U.S., and the substitution of the so-called New Classicism. The theme of my column ...
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• Upcoming CSE Workshops

  
  The CSR Digest — Authority: 122
  The following are upcoming workshops offered by the Centre For Sustainability and Excellence (CSE).
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• Quelle Surprise! Top Brass at Failed Firms Profited Handsomely

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  The New York Times discusses a study (supposedly released, but the paper has yet to be posted ) by corporate governance expert and Harvard Law School professor Lucien Bebchuk (along with Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann) on how much the top echelon at failed firms Bear Stearns and Lehman really suffered when their ...
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• Quelle Surprise! Top Brass at Failed Firms Profited Handsomely

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  The New York Times discusses a study (supposedly released, but the paper has yet to be posted ) by corporate governance expert and Harvard Law School professor Lucien Bebchuk (along with Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann) on how much the top echelon at failed firms Bear Stearns and Lehman really suffered when their ...
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• Quelle Surprise! Top Brass at Failed Firms Profited Handsomely

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 737
  The New York Times discusses a study (supposedly released, but the paper has yet to be posted ) by corporate governance expert and Harvard Law School professor Lucien Bebchuk (along with Alma Cohen and Holger Spamann) on how much the top echelon at failed firms Bear Stearns and Lehman really suffered when their ...
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• Walker tells bank investors to be more involved

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Walker review of corporate governance will stress need for more shareholder engagement with banks and other financial services companies.
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• Teaching Business Associates after the Crisis

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 597
  Following my post on revisiting the " Contracts Crisis ", I am wondering how those of you teaching Business Associations and Corporations have integrated the financial crisis into your classes. Im sure that the crisis will make my end-of-the semester class on Corporate Social Responsibility even more lively. I ...
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• Nirvana is Just a Band

  
  Organizations and Markets — Authority: 498
  |Craig Pirrong| Last week I wrote about one justification for exchange trading and clearing mandates in derivatives markets–the market power argument.  This week I’ll examine another argument, and render a similarly skeptical verdict. In a chapter of Restoring Financial Stability , Viral Acharya, Rob Engle, ...
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• Avoiding international legal headaches: 4 tips and an opportunity

  
  http://legalliteracy.com/blog — Authority: 107
  If your business is engaged in international transactions you may be interested to know that law enforcement officials are increasingly collaborating across borders on investigations of a host of illegal activities ranging from the antitrust violations, to tax evasion, to bribery of foreign officials, financial fraud, ...
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• ICSI proposes 7-Company cap on maximum number of directorship in listed companies

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 450
  The maximum number of listed companies in which an individual can serve as a director should not be more than seven, proposed the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) to the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA). The proposal came in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Govt may introduce Governance code for unlisted companies

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 450
  The Ministry of Corporate Affairs is all set to introduce a governance code for unlisted companies on the lines of the one for listed firms to encourage more companies to register on the stock exchanges. Elaborate disclosures and compliance with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Dissecting Indian Corporate Governance

  
  INDIAN CORPORATE LAW — Authority: 123
  India Knowledge@Wharton carries a discussion (or a mutual interview of sorts) between Wharton professors Jitendra Singh and Harbir Singh and former SEBI Chairman M. Damodaran on several issues pertaining to Indian corporate governance, including the role of independent directors. The discussion is rich in that it ...
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• IRS Issues Final Regulations Regarding Annual ISO/ESPP Reporting Requirements

  
  Corporate Securities Law Blog — Authority: 100
  The Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") has issued final regulations regarding the information return and information statement requirements under Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code.  Section 6039 was amended in 2006 to require corporations to file an information return with the IRS (the "Return") and ...
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• How to Balance the Federal Budget

  
  The Corner Office — Authority: 493
  In 1998, tax income from the unprecedented bull market run of the 90s resulted in the first balanced budget in 30 years. While I dont advocate bubble and bust-fueled economic cycles, economic expansion - big and small business growth - is indeed the only way to end the federal deficit.
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• The world of bribery, at your fingertips

  
  NewsWatch: Energy — Authority: 575
  The oil and gas industry is hardly alone in having a history of violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but its well represented in a new online database of bribery investigations and actions. Compiled by TRACE International (Transparent Agents...
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