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2. Long-term Investors Now Hold Sway Over ESG
  
  Explore Moneyweb Aug 14 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...hed companies on human rights, diversity and pay equity. They more frequently opposed individual board member elections, were slightly more willing to oppose executive pay packages, and less tolerant of dual class shares...
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3. U.S. Markets Watchdog to Finalize Rules on Shareholder Voting Advice
  
  Explore One America News News Jul 22 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...nesday voted to finalize new restrictions on firms that advise investors on how they should vote in corporate elections, following a years-long battle between corporate lobbyists and governance activists over the propose...
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4. Companies Need To Engage On ESG Issues Now Or Risk A Bruising 2021
  
  Explore forbes.com Jul 17 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly taking center stage in corporate elections around the world and, with most of this years proxy season behind us, the outcomes on ESG-related pr...
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5. Twitter CEO's Weak Argument Why Investors Shouldn't Fire Him
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Mar 5 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...s prioritized healthy conversation and now "the #1 initiative is the integrity of the conversation around the elections" around the world, which it's learning from. It's now using humans and machine learning to weed out ...
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6. Service Properties Trust Elects Laurie Burns and Robert Cramer to Board of Trustees
  
  Explore Google Feb 28 2020 BoardMoves
  
  Service Properties Trust (Nasdaq: SVC)today announced that it has elected Laurie B. Burns and Robert E. Cramer to the Companys Board...
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7. Purpose At Work: How Ben & Jerry’s Combines Growth And Brand Activism
  
  Explore forbes.com Feb 27 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...cy. We got a thousand other companies to sign on it. It was all about getting big corporate money out of U.S. elections. We did it for a year, then we were onto GMO labeling. We asked, ‘What do we do with this?.’ It was ...
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8. Carl Icahn Criticizes SEC Proxy Overhaul as 'Big Step Backward'
  
  Explore StamfordAdvocate.com Feb 10 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...titions on corporate ballots. The revamp is particularly relevant to Icahn, who's frequently used shareholder elections to oust directors. "Companies spend a fortune to protect the status quo," Icahn said in an interview...
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9. The Economics of Shareholder Proposal Rules
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 5 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ng to a vote. For example, the analysis should examine empirically the incidence of companies adopting annual elections without the passage of a shareholder proposal to make such a change but following the passage of suc...
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10. US SEC Commissioner Defends Proposal on Shareholder Voting Rules
  
  Explore Channel NewsAsia Jan 31 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...hat aimed to clarify how investors and firms that vote on their behalf should cast their ballots in corporate elections. Proxy adviser ISS said it worried that this related measure may diminish investors' voting rights a...
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11. Board Composition and Shareholder Proposals
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 28 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...igating the ESG Landscape in this memo. Political spending proposals have increased in advance of the 2020 US elections, making up a majority of ESG proposals filed in 2019. Four ESG proposals passed in 2019, the highest...
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12. Xerox to Nominate as Many as 11 Directors to HP's Board in Takeover Push
  
  Explore Channel NewsAsia Jan 22 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...weeks, the newspaper reported, citing sources. The stake would give Xerox the right to nominate directors for elections to be held at the HP's annual meeting this summer, the report said, adding that the deadline to nomi...
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13. What Does the ‘WeWork effect’ Mean for IPOs in 2020?
  
  Explore MarketWatch Dec 31 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...any indication. “Look back to the 1990s, and with the exception of 2016 with the saber-rattling on biotechs, [elections] have been a nonevent on IPO activity,” he said. “Maybe they don’t price the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thu...
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14. Letter by SEC Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr. to Congresswoman Maloney
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Nov 20 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ed. A study I published in 2013 showed that just eight intermediaries spent $1.5 billion of investor money on elections over six years. Investors have no way to know whether companies they own were the source of that mon...
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15. Carl Icahn Urges U.S. SEC to 'rethink' Proposed Rule Change for Proxy Advisers
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Nov 19 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... to "rethink" the proposal. Proxy advisory firms tell investors how to vote on governance issues in corporate elections and cast ballots on behalf of some asset managers. The role of proxy advisers has gained more attent...
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16. PG&E Helped Fund the Careers of California Governor and his Wife. Now he Accuses the Utility of 'corporate greed.'
  
  Explore sfgate.com Nov 11 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...valos said. "They were like the anchor, the one percent - the rich and powerful that determine the outcome of elections." The company's equipment repeatedly raised concerns about public safety. In 2005, an underground eq...
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