FT
Icahn calls for Chesapeake board shake up
The activist investor has taken a 7.56 per cent stake in the US gas producer hit by concerns about its debts and corporate governance
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FTD
Corporate Governance: Kontrolleure nehmen Vorstandsgehälter ins Visier
Die Rekordvergütung von VW-Chef Martin Winterkorn heizt die Diskussion um die Verhältnismäßigkeit von Vorstandsgehältern an. Eine Regierungskommission will sich das Salär der DAX-Chefs vorknöpfen. Eine Obergrenze könnte verbindlich werden.
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MarketWatch
Outside the Box: Yahoo’s issues have broad resonance
Yahoo Inc.’s travails offer a stew of corporate governance issues that resonate well beyond the Internet company., writes Neal Lipschutz.
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Irish Times
Law, Technology and Governance
Graduate students in the Law School at the NUI Galway will present their thesis topics for discussion and feedback at a conference on the theme of “Law, Technology and Governance” on Monday, May 28th. Amongst the topics are electronic commerce, internet piracy, data retention, financial regulation and corporate governance. CPD certificates are available for those who pre-register. For more deta...
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Huffington Post
Janet Tavakoli: Jamie Dimon's SNAFU: JPMorgan's Other Derivatives' Losses
In an August 2010 commentary about JPMorgan's losses in coal trades I wrote: "The commodities division isn't the only area in which JPMorgan is vulnerable....
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Daily Mail
Row over 'fat cat' pay erupts again as Legal & General lavished £3.27m 'golden goodbye' on chief executive
The gold-plated retirement package of 54-year-old L&G chief Tim Breedon raised eyebrows as the insurer has styled itself as one of the UK’s leading exponents of corporate governance.
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Telegraph
What the Andrew Moss ousting proves about the failings of regulation
The ousting of Andrew Moss as Aviva's chief executive reveals why we don't need yet more regulation covering executive pay and corporate governance.
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manager magazin
Nachfolge: Die Kunst, den richtigen CEO zu finden
Als A. G. Lafley im Jahr 2000 CEO des Konsumgüterkonzerns Procter & Gamble wurde, gab es dort keine Nachfolgeplanung. Der neue Chef erklärte das Thema zu einer seiner wichtigsten Aufgaben. Heute besitzt P&G eine vorbildliche Führungskräfteentwicklung. Ein Beispiel für gelebte Corporate Governance.
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Barrons
Chesapeake Rocked by Fundamentals (For a Change)
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has been roiled in the past week by complaints about its corporate governance and oversight of CEO Aubrey McClendon. On Wednesday, the stuck sunk for a reason that could cause longer-term pressure: fundamentals. In afternoon trading, it was down 12%. Chesapeake has addressed some of the corporate governance concerns over the past [...]
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The Guardian
Nick Clegg: big questions over Rupert Murdoch's fitness to run News Corp
Deputy PM throws weight behind MPs' report into phone-hacking scandal, which said Murdoch was not fit to run a big companyNick Clegg has said there are "big question marks" about Rupert Murdoch's fitness to run News Corporation in the wake of a damning Commons report on the phone-hacking scandal.The deputy prime minister said the report, published on Tuesday, raised "serious questions of basic ...
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politico
UK lawmakers: Murdoch not fit to lead
My colleague Darius Dixon reports on some groundbreaking news out of the UK, where lawmakers have decided that Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run News Corp. or any major international company:
The culture committee in the British Parliament concluded that Murdoch “did not take steps to become fully informed about phone-hacking” at his paper, News of the World and “turned a blind eye”...
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Mail & Guardian
SABMiller taps into own talent
SABMiller's promotion of chief executive Graham Mackay to chairperson without a good reason flouts the United Kingdom's corporate governance code.
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WSJ
SABMiller Insiders Drink to Board Moves
The promotion of the brewer's chief executive to the chairman slot raises questions about corporate governance.
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Handelsblatt
Kommentar: Warum Ursula Piëch eine gute Wahl ist
Es ist gegen die Regeln der Corporate Governance, es riecht nach Vermischung von Privatem und Firmeninteressen. Trotzdem könnte die Berufung von Ferdinand Piëchs Frau in den Aufsichtsrat sogar ein Glücksfall für VW sein.
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Wired
Google's Stock-Split Plan Would Replace Stewardship With Dictatorship
When Google introduced a controversial dual-class share structure at the time of its IPO in 2004, I had reservations (as you would expect of someone whose specialty is corporate governance). But the founders' passionate advocacy of the need to follow a "long-term, innovative approach" resonated with me. However, its recent proposal to effect a two-for-one stock split by issuing non-voting share...
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The Nation
MAP excellence award
KARACHI –PPL achieved another milestone by clinching the prestigious MAP 28th Corporate Excellence Award in the Oil and Gas and Utilities sector for the fourth consecutive year, says a press release. This award affirms the company’s adherence to best corporate governance practices. MD and CEO PPL Asim Murtaza Khan received the award from Finance Minister, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, ...
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APA-OTS
Schieder: Höhere Finanzstrafen und Verschärfungen bei den Grundsätzen der Unternehmensführung
Wien (OTS/SK) - Im Rahmen des heute im Bundesrat diskutierten
Stabilitätsgesetzes kommt es auch zum Beschluss wichtiger
Gesetzesvorhaben, wie dem Corporate Governance Kodex und der
Verschärfung bei den Finanzstrafen. "Ab dem 1. Mai können Delikte,
wie etwa Geldwäsche oder Marktmanipulation, …
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Hedge fund investor Third Point blasts Yahoo for board picks
Hedge fund chief says struggling Internet company making a mockery of corporate governance principles
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physorg
The crisis of shareholder primacy
If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial institutions. Gates Scholar Mike Marin explains why.
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Mashable
Why Apple Is Giving Cash Back to Shareholders
Apple on Monday announced a solution to an enviable problem: Too much cash. But does giving money back to shareholders in the form of dividends…
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Nikkei
Push To Tighten Corporate Governance Loses Traction |
CNN
Billionaire oligarchs clash over Rusal
Two Russian billionaires have clashed publicly over corporate governance at the world's largest aluminium company, after Viktor Vekselberg said United Company Rusal was in "deep crisis" because of bad management and a heavy debt load.
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TechCrunch
Hollywood’s Role in Innovation … and SOPA
Silicon Valley may be a garden of innovation, but many of the seeds were sown by Hollywood. Earlier generations of innovators were inspired by shows such as Star Trek, Lost in Space, and The Jetsons; later generations, by films such as Aliens, Terminator, and Avatar. Hollywood brought science fiction to the masses and gave people big things ...
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siliconindia
MindTree Wins Prestigious Corporate Governance Awards
indTree an IT and Product Engineering Services Company, announced that it has won two prestigious awards in the area of Corporate Governance. MindTree wa
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Reuters
Apple ponders cash, caves on board-vote proposal
CUPERTINO, California (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Thursday adopted a measure long desired by investors and corporate governance activists, granting its shareholders a bigger say in the appointment of directors to the board of the world's largest technology company.
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AllThingsDigital
California Pension Fund Challenges Facebook Over Board
A large California pension fund has challenged Facebook Inc. over what it sees as a lack of diversity on the company's board of directors, just days after the social-networking firm filed papers to go public in a closely watched IPO.
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Reuters
Exclusive: Facebook governance a concern for Calif pension fund
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest U.S. investors, the California State Teachers' Retirement System.
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Irish Times
Goal chairman defends spending controls
OVERSEAS AID charity Goal is working with the Department of Foreign Affairs to ensure adequate and transparent corporate governance structures will be in place in 12 months, its chairman has said.
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Handelsblatt
Corporate Governance: Wer regiert bei den Marseille-Kliniken?
Auf der Hauptversammlung der Marseille-Kliniken muss Aufsichtsratschef Thomas Middelhoff mit kritischen Fragen rechnen. Die Eigentümer wollen wissen, welche Rolle Hauptaktionär Ulrich Marseille im Unternehmen spielt.
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APA-OTS
Magna verabschiedet weitere Verbesserungen der Corporate Governance =
Aurora, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) -
Baut auf frühere Initiativen zur Weiterentwicklung der
Corporate-Governance-Praktiken des Unternehmens auf
Magna International Inc. verkündete heute, dass dessen Vorstand
die Übernahme einer Vielzahl weiterer Verbesserungen der Corporate ...
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Mail & Guardian
Mbalula: No one would sponsor corrupt sport
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula says business will not invest in sport if "corrupt activities" and a "lack of corporate governance" continues.
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THE AUSTRALIAN
Berresford under fire
A BRAWL over alleged fraud and poor corporate governance at junior explorer Paynes Find Gold has spilled over to a property fund.
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WSJ
Morgan Stanley Adds to Operating Committee
Morgan Stanley named Ted Pick, global head of equities, and Jeff Brodsky, global head of human resources, to its operating committee, boosting its key corporate governance group to 12 executives from 10.
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BBC
Olympus considers suing directors
Olympus is considering suing its executives after an accounting cover-up at the firm calls into questions corporate governance in Japan.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
U.S. inequality doesnt have to be the Wests road map
Employment, education, corporate governance and financial reform must be part of a huge agenda
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Reuters
Olympus ex-CEO to meet Japan ruling party on corporate governance
TOKYO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Olympus Corp's
ousted CEO, Michael Woodford, will on Thursday meet a panel of
lawmakers from Japan's ruling Democratic Party looking at ways
to tighten corporate governance...
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Telegraph
RFU will be advised to make radical changes to its board when review is presented to council at Twickenham
First order of business at RFU council will be Slaughter and May review of governing body's corporate governance.
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Huffington Post
Jack Ucciferri: Public Corporations Are Not Democracies, But They Should Be
While it is true that CEO's dominate contemporary corporate governance, it need not be so. It should not be so. In theory, it is not so.
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FT
Bumi: boom or bust?
Poor corporate governance, debt woes and falling coal prices trouble the Indonesian company
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