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1. Why Is Everyone Talking About CEO Pay?
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jun 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Why Is Everyone Talking About CEO Pay? Say Contributor Reblog Earlier this year, 57% of Disney shareholders approved a compensation package for CEO Bob Iger that will be worth as much as $35 million. That’s for one year’s worth of work, mind you. Abigail Disney, filmmaker, philanthropist and granddaughter and grand niece of company co-founders Roy and Walt Disney, responded that CEOs "in general are paid far too much."
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2. Chewy founder Ryan Cohen on its fast-approaching IPO: “It’s like seeing my baby graduate” – TechCrunch
  
  Explore TechCrunch Jun 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Ask any venture capitalist about the most important ingredient to success in startups, and they’ll tell you it centers on founders who can persuade not only investors to part with some of their capital but, more important, who can convince people to leave what are often more stable jobs in order to build a company from scratch. Ryan Cohen certainly fits the description.
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3. Board Level Update On Cyber Risk
  
  Explore forbes.com Jun 12 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  According to data from Juniper Research, the average cost of a data breach will exceed $150 million by 2020 — and by 2019, cyber-crime will cost businesses over $2 trillion — a four-fold increase from 2015.
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4. Remember Options Backdating? Nissan Gets Caught Using a Very Old CEO Pay Trick
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jun 11 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  After more of than a year of one corporate scandal after another— faked emissions tests , claimed improper payments , executive financial misconduct , and even arrests —Nissan may face yet another problem. CEO Hiroto Saikawa reportedly received a bump to a stock-based bonus when the company’s board rescheduled by a week the date it the shares were priced...
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5. Board Diversity by Term Limits?
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jun 10 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Board Diversity by Term Limits? Posted by Yaron Nili (University of Wisconsin) and Darren Rosenblum (Pace University), on Monday, June 10, 2019 More from: Darren Rosenblum , Yaron Nili Yaron Nili is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School; and Darren Rosenblum is Professor of Law at Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law. This post is based on their recent article , forthcoming in the Alabama Law Review .
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6. Corporate Directors Divided on Their Boards' Ability to Oversee the Risks and Opportunities of Disruptive Innovations, Survey Finds
  
  Explore finanzen.ch Jun 10 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  A new study by Corporate Board Member, a division of Chief Executive Group and a market leader in board education, along with Ernst & Young LLP, a leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, shows that 48 percent of corporate directors report being unconvinced that their boards have the appropriate ...
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7. How can you diversify a nonprofit board? It's best to think outside the box
  
  Explore Knoxville News Sentinel Jun 10 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  A diverse board also keeps the organization charging forward in its work, Ronni Chandler, executive director and chief executive officer of Project ...
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8. Community leader shot to death during attempted robbery in Midtown
  
  Explore WREG.com Jun 9 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Email MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police have identified a man shot and killed Friday night outside a Midtown church. Investigators initially said Glenn Cofield, 57, was shot to death in the parking lot of Greater Lewis Saint Missionary Baptist Church on East Parkway N. after an "argument," but they later said it happened during an attempted robbery. Cofield was a beloved community leader, husband and father of three from Memphis.
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9. Ask questions first about board service obligations |Notes on Nonprofits
  
  Explore Tallahassee Democrat Jun 8 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  I'm just a volunteer on a board of directors .” It's better to ask about risks and protections before accepting a nomination to serve. Directors are trustees ...
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10. Board Development and Director Succession Planning in the Age of Shareholder Activism, Engagement and Stewardship
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jun 7 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  The intensifying spotlight turned on boards of directors and management teams by investors prompts a fresh look at how public companies approach board development, director succession planning and refreshment in advance of an activist attack, shareholder unrest or a crisis that results in heightened scrutiny...
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11. Tesla’s Largest Institutional Investor is Standing by the Firm Through Various Scandals
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 7 2019 BoardBlogs
  Baillie Gifford, the largest institutional investor in Tesla, increased its stake in the company during the first quarter despite all the controversy surrounding the electric carmaker.
  
  We recently asked Andrew Telfer, the $252 billion asset manager's joint senior partner, what it takes for the firm to sell a company it has invested in for the long haul...
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12. Boardroom free float falls below 10% threshold, Companies & Markets - The Business Times
  
  Explore THE BUSINESS TIMES Jun 7 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  The free float of corporate secretarial services firm Boardroom fell below the 10 per cent mark as at Thursday 5pm, the company announced in a bourse filing on Friday. Salacca, the GK Goh Holdings unit that launched a takeover offer for Boardroom, does not intend to restore the free float requirement for the mainboard-listed company and will seek to delist it.
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13. What Happens When There are More Women Than Men in the Board Room?
  
  Explore Breaking News & Top Stories Jun 6 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  What happens when there are more women than men in the boardroom? More women on boards means "behavior and conduct in a company are balanced," one recruitment expert said. For the first time in its 110-year history, General Motors now has more women than men on its board...
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14. The Importance of a Startup’s Board of Directors
  
  Explore Legal News, Lawyers, Law Firms Jun 5 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Countless new businesses, commonly known as “startups,” are launched each and every day, and while some of them may have better business models than others, a startup’s ability to successfully grow from a seed into a stable, mature, and profitable business often depends on much less perceptible decisions. In particular, one of the most overlooked, yet incredibly important challenges every startup faces, is the selection of its board of directors...
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15. Want A Bigger Pension? This Study Suggests Adding Female Directors
  
  Explore Legal News, Lawyers, Law Firms Jun 5 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Later this month, I will be serving as the moderator of a panel at the Society for Corporate Governance's 2019 National Conference in San Diego...
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16. Here’s One Powerful Way to Control CEO Pay
  
  Explore MarketWatch Jun 4 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Company shareholders are well-positioned to address income inequality by clamping down on sky high corporate pay, but new research says they’ll have to put their mouth where their money is. Shareholders — everyone from a retail investor with a 401(K) to asset management firms with vast pools of money — need the incentives and power to question exorbitant corporate pay in the companies where they invest money, according to a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute...
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17. Carl Icahn Is Taking On Occidental Petroleum. Why That’s Good for the Stock.
  
  Explore Financial Investment News Jun 1 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Carl Icahn’s latest target is Occidental Petroleum . He has blasted the company for its “hugely overpriced acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum ” and for disenfranchising shareholders by refusing to allow them to vote on the deal . While there is little the activist investor can do to stop the $38 billion acquisition, he is adding to the growing shareholder pressure on Occidental (ticker: OXY)—and that could be bullish for its depressed stock...
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18. Endeavor's Board of Directors Is All Male – and That Needs to Change if the Company Goes Public
  
  Explore Google May 31 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Numerous independent studies have concluded that publicly held companies perform better when women serve on their boards of directors ,” the bill, ...
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19. To Accelerate CEO Diversity, Look to CMOs
  
  Explore forbes.com May 31 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  History hasn’t necessarily favored the marketer when it comes to C-Suite hierarchy. While talented marketing leaders are occasionally considered for internal CEO succession, external searches largely focus on other C-suite titles. As a result, not only do companies fail to fully benefit from the unique capabilities of qualified CMOs, they also miss out on a diverse pool of candidates...
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20. Is CEO Pay Linked to Drug Prices? Curious Investors Failed Their Campaign to Find Out
  
  Explore Pharma News May 30 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Some Big Pharma investors wanted to know whether drug prices are rising because executives personally benefit from the hikes. But when they put that question up for a vote, their fellow shareholders turned them away. In a series of annual meetings at top drugmakers, shareholders rejected calls for more information on executive compensation—namely, whether price hikes directly fueled increases in C-suite pay...
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21. Why I Think Facebook Investors Should Vote No on Zuckerberg
  
  Explore FastCompany.com May 30 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  For both good corporate governance and the stability of American society, Facebook must change. First, investors should vote no because effective ...
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22. What Boards Need to Know About Sustainability Ratings
  
  Explore Harvard Business Review May 30 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Corporate boards of directors must tackle questions about sustainability in a new and urgent manner. If they don’t, they will hear from investors about their lack of action. In just the latest indication of the investor community’s increasing scrutiny on sustainability, Yahoo announced in 2018 that it would start publishing sustainability ratings for publicly traded companies...
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23. Who Would Buy Tesla And Why?
  
  Explore forbes.com May 29 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  As I write this, the market value of Tesla has dropped by about half since it’s last peak in mid-December. It’s been pretty steadily downhill for the past six months. Of late there has been increasing speculation about someone stepping in to buy Tesla including Kara Swisher’s sidekick on the Pivot podcast Scott Galloway. Over the past couple of years, I’ve stated on several occasions and still believe that any acquisition of Tesla is going to be difficult with the biggest reason being CEO Elon Musk...
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24. Salary Optics: Why Google CEO Sundar Pichai Turned Down a Big Stock Award
  
  Explore Business Standard May 29 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Google CEO Pichai Sundar Pichai was, for years, one of the world’s highest-paid corporate executives. Now he’s facing the opposite reality: No big paychecks at all. The Google chief executive officer hasn’t received an equity award in more than two years. A key reason is that Pichai turned down a big new grant of restricted stock in 2018 because he felt he was already paid generously, according to a person familiar with the decision...
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