One year after the murder of George Floyd spotlighted issues of systemic racism in the U.S., a new study found corporate America has made great leaps to increase diversity in boardrooms. Of the 456 new independent directors added to the boardrooms of companies listed on the S&P 500 this past year...
Many U.S. companies have rushed to appoint Black members to their board of directors since racial justice protests swept the country last year...
A Delaware judge on Monday ordered lawyers representing Tesla Inc. directors to turn over certain communications that CEO Elon Musk may have shared with the company’s top in-house attorneys before the board approved a compensation plan in 2018 that could net Musk more than $50 billion...
President Joe Biden’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming before a Senate panel for his confirmation hearing, at a moment when a roiling stock-trading ...
CHICAGO -- Boeing said Wednesday that two of its directors are retiring, a sign of further change on the company's board as it faces a shareholder lawsuit alleging weak overview during the 737 Max crisis...
There’s abundant evidence that considering a company’s stance on environmental and social concerns, as well as its corporate governance, leads to healthy investment returns...
On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, President Donald Trump took a swipe at Lyash's compensation, suggesting the executive's pay was too high...
Pay for CEOs topped $12.3 million at the biggest U.S. companies last year, and the gap continued to widen between chief executives and the workers they are shepherding ...
AMD's Lisa Su is first woman to top AP's CEO pay analysis Lisa Su of Advanced Micro Devices became the first woman ever to top The Associated Press’ annual survey of CEO compensation with a 2019 pay package valued at $58.5 million...
Oil company Citgo has filed a lawsuit against a Miami-based businessman it accuses of paying huge bribes to company officials connected to Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government in exchange for lucrative contracts...
Shareholders are still voting overwhelmingly in favor of big pay packages for CEOs, but there are more pockets of resistance eight years after "Say on Pay" became a mandatory exercise at annual meetings. Median pay for CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies climbed 7% to $12 million last year, according to data analyzed by Equilar for The Associated Press. The median increase for a typical worker at these companies was 3%. Median means half were larger, and half were smaller...
Shares of General Motors are rising as a proxy fight escalates between the company and an activist shareholder who wants to split its shares into two classes. David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital said Tuesday that it's sending a letter to shareholders emphasizing that the stock price has barely grown since GM's initial public offering at $33 seven years ago. GM pointed out last week that two independent, corporate evaluation firms, ISS and Glass Lewis, recommended against the proposal...
The CEO of a credit-card payments company in Seattle said executive pay is "out of whack," so he's cutting his own pay and creating a minimum salary for his workers...
With three kids at home, Mia Hamm already had plenty on her plate when two professional clubs called over the space of just a few days in October. They weren't asking her to play — the 42-year-old soccer star has been retired for more than a decade — rather they wanted her to join their management teams...
McDonald's has a new CEO on the job starting today, and he has his work cut out for him...
The American Postal Workers Union is calling on Harvard University's president to oppose a business arrangement between Staples Inc. and the U.S. Postal Service, or resign her seat on the office supply company's board...
Auction house Sotheby's says it agreed to expand its board to add directors from activist investor Daniel Loeb's slate.
Sotheby's will add Loeb, CEO of hedge fund Third Point, as well as former investment banker Olivier Reza and restructuring expert Harry J. Wilson to its slate of directors up for election at its annual shareholder meeting later this month.
Third Point is Sotheby's largest shareholder with a 9.6 percent stake.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. has tapped the world of metals to find its next CEO. The New York-based media and merchandising company said it has named board member Daniel W. Dienst, who most recently served as CEO of Sims Metal Management, to take over the post. The role had been vacant since Lisa Gersh stepped down in December after less than a year on the job.
The Alitalia board on Friday approved a 300 million euro ($400 million) capital increase as part of a rescue plan for the struggling flagship airline. The capital increase includes up to 75 million euros from the Italian Postal Services, and the rest from the consortium that runs Alitalia and a bridge loan from banks...
Russia's state-owned Rosneft to buy out minority shareholders in oil firm TNK-BP...
J.C. Penney Co. and its largest shareholder, William Ackman, have made a deal that sets terms for allowing him to unload his stake in the company in an orderly manner...
