PENNSAUKEN, N.J. -- RCM Technologies, Inc. , a premier provider of business and technology solutions designed to enhance and maximize the operational performance of its customers through the adaptation ...
FRANKFURT — Despite opinion polls showing widespread dismay about huge executive paychecks, Swiss voters on Sunday rejected severe limits on executive pay...
U.S. car maker Chrysler has postponed plans for a market listing until early next year, Fiat, its Italian parent, said, adding that it wasn't "practicable" to do it beforehand...
Dish Network Inc. shareholders are asking a Nevada judge to exclude the company’s chairman and controlling shareholder, Charlie Ergen, from the bankruptcy court auction of LightSquared Inc.
The discounter's board elected Doug McMillon to succeed Mike Duke as president and chief executive officer...
In the aftermath of the financial crisis institutional shareholders are amping up engagements with company directors and executives on the pledging of company stock. On the agenda is pledging policy and whether the practice of pledging should be prohibited outright—similar to how hedging is now largely treated by the vast majority of companies...
Gregory is widely recognized for her governance work, including most recently as: the best in Corporate Governance at Euromoney Legal Media Group's inaugural Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2012; the leading practitioner in corporate ...
Fenwick's annual survey covers a variety of corporate governance practices and data for the companies included in the Standard & Poor's 100 Index (S&P 100) compared to the technology and life sciences companies included in the Silicon Valley 150 Index ...
RCM Urges Stockholders to Vote WHITE Proxy Card and Reject the Legion Group's Problematic Nominees...
Bedford-based Hologic Inc. said its board of directors has unanimously adopted a one-year shareholder rights plan to dissuade takeovers, as affiliates of activist investor Carl Icahn build an ownership stake in the medical device maker. The company said Thursday that under the plan, shareholders as of Dec. 2 will receive a right for each share they own to buy additional shares. The rights will be exercisable if a person or group acquires 10 percent or more of the company’s stock.,,
BHP Billiton has its hands full trying to reverse falling profit as prices for many commodities drop. It also faces a challenge on another issue: climate change...
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. , a leading provider of corporate governance solutions to the global financial community, today released 2014 updates to its benchmark...
In response to our announcement of our corporate governance enhancements, the Legion Group rushed out a press release later that day where Mr. Vizi attempted to portray himself as a "champion" of corporate governance . In the Legion Group's press ...
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 20, 2013-- PPG Industries' (NYSE:PPG) board of directors ranks first among the boards of more than 600 U.S. public companies, according to a study of governance capacity that was released today by James Drury Partners.
BELLEVUE, Wash. — The turnout at Microsoft's annual shareholder meetings is often sparse, with loads of empty seats in a conference hall in this Seattle suburb...
Enrique Salem, chief executive of Symantec Corp., got bad news after a board meeting in July 2012. Chairman Steve Bennett and two fellow outside directors told him the software maker was switching leaders...
A group of nationally recognized U.S. corporate governance and policy organizations is jointly calling on audit committees of public companies of all sizes and industries to proactively consider strengthening their public disclosures to more effectively convey key elements of their critical work to investors and stakeholders.
The latest 2013 governance honour for Canada's largest communications company MONTREAL, Nov. 19, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - BCE Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been honoured with the Best Overall Corporate ...
CHICAGO -- R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company announced today the results of its recent survey, What Institutional Investors Look for in Proxy Statements, which examined how institutional investors read and ...
A representative of an IGT - International Game Technology outside investor resigned his seat on the slot machine manufacturer’s board of directors eight months after a contentious proxy fight landed him on the corporate governing body.
An arbitration panel ruling on a dispute between CommonWealth REIT and investors seeking to oust its board found that the shareholder effort to remove trustees was invalid, while also determining a new vote can proceed...
More U.S. companies are luring top executives with multimillion-dollar “golden hello” signing bonuses, undeterred even as high-profile flameouts such as Ron Johnson’s short tenure at J.C. Penney Co. expose the risks...
BERLIN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed on Monday to introduce legislation requiring German companies to allot 30 percent of their non-executive board seats to women from 2016...
