Fewer public companies, at a glace, appears to be a problem, but not if you look at the numbers. The people who supervise the U.S. stock market are grappling with what they see as a troubling trend: One of the great innovations of Western capitalism — the public company — appears to be losing ground...
How to get strong, female leaders in the boardroom and beyond... At a recent event in Paris, former President Barack Obama was asked about essential leadership skills for the future . He responded that more women should be put into positions of power.
Want more women on corporate boards? This stat helps | Analysis Updated: December 11, 2017 — 1:45 PM EST 1 Share by Gillian Tan , Bloomberg Gadfly A global effort to bolster the number of women on corporate boards is taking longer than it should. But the recent performance of companies that lead their peers on this measure may accelerate change.
Vanguard Group is tallying votes from Wednesday morning’s Joint Special Meeting of Shareholders in Scottsdale, Ariz., as shareholders of all its U.S.-based funds are asked to elect members of a board of trustees, 10 of whom would be “independent.”...
Is Vanguard 'woke?' That’s hipster vernacular for becoming aware of and active in social and political issues...
Comcast Corp., the target of shareholder protests in years past, will hold its second online-only shareholders meeting on Thursday — no face-to-face encounters between peeved shareholders and CEO Brian Roberts...
Describing King of Prussia-based Universal Health Services Inc. as having a “uniquely entrenched governance structure,” a union-affiliated investment research group has urged the company’s shareholders to withhold their support for the reelection of Lawrence S. Gibbs to the UHS board. Gibbs, who has been a board member since 2011, is the ...
Title insurer Stewart Information Services Corp said on Tuesday it would add four new directors to its board, reaching a deal with activist investor Starboard Value LP. Starboard Value is the company's biggest shareholder with a 9.9 percent stake ...
Siemens Chief Executive Joe Kaeser has signaled he wants to renew his contract when it runs out in 2018, a move welcomed by investors who have grown to trust the 59-year-old company veteran...
STATE COLLEGE - Some trustees at Pennsylvania State University are balking at a board proposal that would discourage them from talking publicly about a university matter outside of a board meeting without prior approval of the board chairman. Trustee Alice Pope, a psychology professor at St. John's University, called the practice "totalitarian" and said it would stifle the free exchange of ideas typically considered a cornerstone of a university...
State oil giant Saudi Aramco has appointed to its board Yasir al-Rumayyan, managing director of its top sovereign wealth fund, in a sign that the two institutions plan to cooperate closely to restructure the economy in an era of low oil prices ...
Viacom Inc said on Saturday its board members have been unable to meet with controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone because his daughter Shari is blocking access to the media mogul ...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has appointed Phoebe A. Haddon, chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden, as a Class C director of its board. for a three-year term......
Ever since the Bill Cosby sexual-assault scandal went viral last year, the Temple University board of trustees has been in a defensive crouch...
Pep Boys announced Tuesday morning that the board of directors is considering merging or selling the company. The board will be assisted in its review by Rothschild Inc. as its financial advisor and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as its legal advisor, the company said in a press release...
The DuPont Co. said activist investor Trian Fund Management's plan to break up the 212-year-old chemical maker would cost at least $4 billion...
America can no longer afford the promises we once made to our hard-working CEOs, corporate board members and our wizards of Wall Street. It's time for salary-and-perk reform. The money that we pay our top executives and Wall Street gurus has been ...
Vanguard Group has grown so large, it can throw its weight around in any boardroom in America. "We own about 5 percent of every publicly traded [U.S.] company," sometimes more, chief executive F. William McNabb told a conference at the University of Delaware's John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance on Oct. 30...
Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has been renovating shopping malls, selling less-successful properties, and paying down its debt since the last recession..
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - The resignation of Mozilla's CEO amid outrage that he supported an anti-gay marriage campaign is prompting concerns about how Silicon Valley's strongly liberal culture might quash the very openness that is at the region's foundation...
American CEOs typically are also the chairs of the boards of the companies they run, and they tend to fight to hold on to both positions.
