Disney will be welcoming a new tech savvy Mouseketeer to its ranks. The Company today announced that Twitter founder and chairman Jack Dorsey has been elected to its board of directors.
Silicon Valley is in high demand these days, even in the happiest place on earth. Today, Disney announced that Twitter and Square billionaire Jack Dorsey was elected to Mickey Mouse's board of directors...
Restaurant operator Darden Restaurants may think releasing Red Lobster into the wild will help its bottom line, but according to an activist stance by Jeffrey Smith's investment firm Starboard Value, shedding Red Lobster isn't enough to turn Darden's operations around...
Twitter has garnered worldwide attention for its bad corporate governance practices and its inappropriate response to criticism. The company needs to be congratulated, however, for announcing that it is adding Marjorie Scardino to its board. Scardino is former chief executive of publishing giant and is highly accomplished. She is known for being outspoken.
Last month I was sitting in a board meeting for one of my portfolio companies, a fast-growing software-as-a-service business serving digital marketers, and two interesting things happened. First, the company reported it had zero customer churn (or 100% retention) in the quarter for the first time in its history...
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...
As the UK makes progress towards its targets for women in the boardrooms of its publicly listed companies, what exactly has been achieved? It feels like inching forward - progress, to be sure (as the Irish are fond of saying) but have any fundamentals changed? Not yet. It's still a 'work in progress'...
It seldom happens that a smaller sized specialty retailer will make an effort to take over a larger organization. It is David and Goliath in modern suits. But that is what is happening in the menswear arena. Smaller Jos. A. Bank, a respected men’s store with 603 units that achieved sales of $1.05 Billion in fiscal 2012, has made a pitch to take over Men’s Wearhouse with 1,143 units and sales ...
Richard Daly, chief executive ofBroadridge, may be the most important person in corporate governance today. His firm is responsible for sending out proxies and tallying shareholder votes for tens of millions of stock owners around the world. Indeed, Broadridge processes 85% of all outstanding shares voted in the United States and 72% of shares voted outside of the U.S. --distributing some 2 billion ...
The era of JC Penney being a plaything for bigfoot hedge fund investors appears to be coming to a close. The struggling retailer has humbled some of the biggest names on Wall Street—handing them losses and leaving them with egg on their faces after they bet that the company could stage something of a rebound...
What some might find more startling was the context – integrated reporting (<IR>) for publicly listed companies, in the pursuit of better corporate governance . “The way you report influences how you behave (as a business) and starts having an impact on your ...
Would Dan Loeb make Michael Woodford CEO of any of Third Point’s investee companies in Japan? Not likely...
Perhaps tangible change towards more diverse and representative global boardrooms will in the end come as a result of the demands of powerful investors. In Canada, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, a pension fund managing $130bn in assets also happens to have four women on its board of nine directors, including chairwoman Eileen Mercier...
Jamie Dimon's move to give up the bank chairman role at JPMorgan Chase may be the beginning of something more ominous...
What’s the best way to achieve success? Picture yourself already there. When it comes to a successful IPO, you should start operating like a public company much earlier than you think. In fact, companies that exceed overall market returns following an IPO begin acting like a public company a full 12 to 24 months prior to going public...
The noise around CEO term limits is loud enough, and the debate contentious enough, I felt the topic worthy of practical examination. There?s no denying every chief executive has an expiration date. There should also be no argument that prudent planning should take place around the inevitable. But never should said date of expiry be arbitrarily defined - it should be made in the moment based on ...
How things have changed over time and why stockholder's virtually have no say in the company anymore.
When CommonWealth REIT slashed its dividend last fall, investors started fleeing and the sharks started circling. Now, with the office property firm already facing activist campaigns from two separate groups, another hedge fund made its voice heard Tuesday.
That means it beat out everyone else in the Russell 1000 index of large-capitalization companies in terms of virtues like good corporate governance and environmental impact. “A good corporate citizen is one that demonstrates its good faith and genuine
By Maria Guadalupe, Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science, INSEAD The country’s recent vote to cap executive compensation could change corporate governance Switzerland is a country reknowned for its conservative neutrality, so the referendum vote earlier this month which turned corporate governance structures on their heads comes as a bit of a shock. Essentially, 68% of all ...
