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1. As Bezos Leaves Amazon CEO Role, Expect More Pressure on Its Board
  
  Explore Financial Investment News Feb 5 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...As Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos prepares to leave his role as the firms CEO, expect the companys board to have a harder time overseeing company management, one activist shareholder says... ...
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2. Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to Take Over in Q3
  
  Explore CNBC.com Feb 2 2021 BoardNews
  
  ...AmazonCEO Jeff Bezos will step down later this year, turning over the helm to the companys top cloud executive Andy Jassy, the company announced Tuesday. Bezos will transition to executive chairman of Amazons b...
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3. Pandemic Stirs Wall Street’s Social Conscience
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance May 15 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...roup at Goldman Sachs, told a media conference call in April. Investors initially baulked when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said last month that he expected to spend $4 billion on virus-related expenses including protecting...
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4. Why Amazon, Facebook, Disney Saw Their Chiefs Retake Control
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance May 11 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...the New York Times reported, Iger has “smoothly reasserted control.” The trend was solidified when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos “took back the wheel” at the company, putting a pause on rubbing elbows in Paris with French presid...
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5. Mario Gabelli Defends Active Management, Praises Green Investments And Recommends MSG
  
  Explore forbes.com Feb 26 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...g to happen at an accelerated rate, you can bet on it.” Gabelli also heaped considerable praise on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, comparing him to Henry Ford. Following two days of large losses in the stock market, Gabelli said ...
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6. Alphabet’s New Boss Means $2 Billion for Departing Founders
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Dec 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ders amid turmoil. There are some notable exceptions. Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are still at the helm of Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. respectively, which are the fourth- and fifth-largest U.S. companies by mark...
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7. Bernie Sanders Wants to Tax Companies That Pay Their CEOs Way More Than Their Workers
  
  Explore msn.com Sep 30 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...than the median Walmart worker last year — $23.6 million to $21,952. Jeff Bezos gets paid 58 times the median Amazon worker. The CEO of the Gap makes a staggering 3,566 times what the clothing retailer’s median worker ma...
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8. Amazon's Infamous 1997 Letter to Shareholders was Reportedly Co-Written by the Company's First CFO, Joy Covey
  
  Explore Business Insider Aug 25 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ategy since adopted by many major internet companies, from Uber to WeWork. The letter is signed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and has always been attributed to him... In 2019, Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the w...
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9. Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Rejoins General Dynamics Board
  
  Explore The Washington Post Aug 7 2019 BoardMoves
  
  ...m the revolving door as well; Amazon recently hired former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, Victor Gavin, to assist with its cloud computing business. [Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post]...
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10. How The First 15 Minutes Of Amazon’s Leadership Meetings Spark Great Ideas And Better Conversations
  
  Explore forbes.com Jun 18 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...wenty minutes before an active discussion began. During that silence, CEO Jeff Bezos and the other senior leaders were participating in a ritual that could radically transform your businessit did for Amazon... ...
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11. Why Is Everyone Talking About CEO Pay?
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jun 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...perceived disparity between Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, and the wages of Amazon workers, many of whom reportedly rely on food stamps to make ends meet. The bill called for large emplo...
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12. Bernie Sanders to Walmart: Your Workers Need Higher Wages
  
  Explore Breaking News Headlines Jun 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...essure from Sanders and labor advocates, Amazon in October 2018 hiked its minimum hourly pay to $15, with CEO Jeff Bezos declaring "we listened to our critics." Walmart raised its starting wage to $11 an hour at the begi...
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13. Jeff Bezos Blew off Amazon Employees' Proposal at the Shareholder's Meeting and they were Miffed: 'This is not the kind of leadership we need'
  
  Explore Business Insider May 23 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... to drastically limit its impact on the environment. They hoped to present their plea directly to their boss, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, at the company's annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. But the boss was not availab...
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14. Inside Amazon's Battle to Kill an Unprecedented Shareholder Revolt Over Facial Recognition
  
  Explore Business Insider May 21 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...he votes fail, investors hope they succeed in giving Amazon pause for thought. Asked what message she has for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Tri-State Coalition executive director Mary Beth Gallagher said: "I'd make clear to him...
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15. Uber Is Going Public at a $75.5 Billion Valuation. Here's How That Stacks Up.
  
  Explore entrepreneur.com May 10 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...luation is approaching the level of General Motors and Ford combined, but still has a long way to go to catch Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' net worth. Uber priced its initial public offering at $45 a share on Thursday evening, ...
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16. Warren Buffett says Berkshire Hathaway is Buying up Shares of Amazon, Hours Before its Big Annual Shareholders' Meeting
  
  Explore Business Insider May 3 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... some of the stand-out tech companies. "The truth is that I've watched Amazon from the start and I think what Jeff Bezos has done is something close to a miracle," Buffett said at the annual meeting in 2018. "And the pro...
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17. Pressure Builds On CEOs To Navigate Climate Action: It's A New Reality For Corporate America.
  
  Explore forbes.com Apr 17 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...they act on climate change are heating up. More than 6,500 Amazon employees have signed a letter to their CEO Jeff Bezos and his board of directors, asking for broad action to fight climate change. This followed a move i...
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18. Jeff Bezos Was Paid $81,840 Last Year—And He Hasn’t Had a Raise in 20 Years
  
  Explore People and Trends Apr 11 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...est person by being a mere salaryman. In fact, the monthly paycheck of the world’s richest person, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is barely bigger than that of a junior engineer at his company. Last year, Bezos took home $81,840...
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19. Jeff Bezos Made a Jab at eBay in his Annual Shareholder Letter, Boasting that 'independent sellers do so much better selling on Amazon'
  
  Explore Business Insider Apr 11 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...sellers do so much better selling on Amazon" than on eBay. The numbers in Bezos' letter show that since 1999, Amazon has come from behind and surpassed eBay in third-party merchandise sales. Amazon's third-party merchand...
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20. Jeff Bezos' Divorce Won't Affect his Voting Power at Amazon, Because Mackenzie is Giving him Control
  
  Explore Business Insider Apr 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...r shares. Jeff Bezos isn't going to have to worry about having his ex-spouse challenge how he runs Amazon... Jeff Bezos isn't going to have to worry about having his ex-spouse challenge how he runs Amazon. As part of th...
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21. Bernie Sanders Targets Walmart: Bill Would Block Stock Buybacks Unless Workers Get $15 Minimum Wage
  
  Explore Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance Nov 15 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...m wage from $7.20 to $15 an hour when the next session of Congress convenes in January. Sanders later praised Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for hiking the minimum wage at the company. The Walmart bill is unlikely to move in a Re...
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22. Shareholders Are Trying to Pressure Jeff Bezos into Cutting Off Amazon's Deals to Sell Facial Recognition to Police Departments
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 18 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...elped find victims of abduction... Civil rights groups and a shareholders are putting pressure on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling the Amazon Rekognition facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies. The...
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23. CEO Pay Ratio Disclosures Provide Little More Than Noise for Investors
  
  Explore MarketWatch May 25 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...EO Jeff Bezos is widely considered to be the world’s richest person. Although the value of Bezos’s holding of Amazon stock bulged by well over $33 billion in 2017–recent filings show he owned 78.9 million Amazon shares–h...
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24. Allergan and Takeda May Fight Over Shire
  
  Explore The New York Times Apr 19 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...for GKN. (FT) • Bon-Ton Stores is going out of business. (WSJ) • Grail, a cancer-detection start-up backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, is reportedly working to raise $1 billion. RealSelf, an online hub for cosmetic sur...
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