Forcing Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to hire its own tree-trimming workforce, instead of relying on contractors to keep vegetation away from power lines, would not have the fire-safety benefits envisioned by a federal judge or alleviate the need for fire-prevention blackouts, attorneys for the utility say...
Profits aren't the be-all and end-all of business, according to the chief executives of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Coca-Cola Company, General Motors Co. and other members of the Business Roundtable group of American bosses...
The hard-fought battle that has kept the biggest utility bankruptcy in U.S. history dragging on for almost a year may finally be coming to an end...
Charged with overseeing the company's probation, he had given PG&E's board of directors , CEO and other senior leaders until July 15 to make the ...
Apple is once again the world's most valuable company, and Tim Cook ... Rosenstock pointed to the company's corporate governance guidelines, ...
PG&E Corp. has seated its new board of directors and decided that its incoming chief executive's first day on the job will be in about two and a half ...
PG&E Corp. has once again delayed its deadline to nominate candidates for election to its board of directors, further prolonging its efforts to bring in ...
Even as its chief executive touts a turnaround, San Francisco human resources software Zenefits company has suffered from a series of board departures, calling into question the company’s support from key investors and advisors...
On Friday, the Palo Alto company's board of directors takes on the uncomfortable role of peacekeeper. Under a fraud settlement Musk signed with the ...
A shareholder suit accusing Walt Disney Co. directors of conspiring with other animation studios not to recruit each other's employees must be ...
California regulators are considering whether Pacific Gas and Electric Co. should shake up its leadership, split its core operations into separate companies or be transformed into a publicly-owned utility. In an announcement late Friday afternoon, the California Public Utilities Commission stressed it had not drawn conclusions but listed those possibilities among a series of provocative questions it will explore in the next phase of a long-running investigation into PG&E’s corporate culture...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Microsoft Corp., CVS Health Corp., Macy's and two other companies have agreed to review their policies on executive compensation at the request of the New York state pension fund and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. DiNapoli announced the agreements on Friday. Under the terms, the companies agree to consider what they pay all levels of employees as a factor when setting CEO salaries, instead of simply looking at what other CEOs earn...
On Thursday, Picker said in a statement his agency will examine “the corporate governance , structure and operation of PG&E, including in light of the ...
Every day, the opioid epidemic claims 115 American lives, while communities across the country are awash in prescription drugs that fuel the crisis. But while the human toll of this tragedy has become all too clear, the fight to hold accountable those responsible for exacerbating the crisis continues. Nowhere will this be more apparent or urgent than at San Francisco-based McKesson’s annual meeting Wednesday...
That would please corporate governance critics who have called for Facebook to separate the roles of chairman and CEO, while Facebook engineers could be contented that the hacker-in-chief still reigns at One Hacker Way. And it would salve politicians who are unsatisfied when anyone but the boss ...
Nor is the decision to drop Williams' short-term incentive in 2017 that unusual for companies going through a difficult year, said corporate governance expert Nell Minow. She noted, however, that companies will sometimes try to make up for the lost bonus in other ways, such as giving the executive more ...
The “purported corporate governance reforms ... were under way in any event” and did not require an agreement to shield top company officials, ...
And the company recently disclosed that it sold political ads to people linked to the Russian government posing as pro-Trump Americans. Facebook ...
Since Uber's board of directors forced Kalanick to resign as CEO in June amid allegations of misconduct, pundits had mentioned Whitman as a top ...
“Do the math,” said Adam Epstein, founder of Third Creek Advisors, a Bay Area firm that advises pre-IPO companies on corporate governance . “It's not ...
As evidence of the company's commitment to transparency and good ... of corporate governance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School...
As a private company worth more than $1 billion — the definition of a ... lots of money, which quiets any discontent about their corporate governance...
What takes even more guts is openly gushing about said company's board of directors , the very people who failed to prevent that massive fraud...
The senators lent their names to the Dodd-Frank Act, a major reform of the banking sector. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank,...
The board's job is to protect shareholders, which includes hiring and firing the chief executive. It is made up of inside directors , who are employees of ...