The roles played by active investment managers in price discovery, governance and capital formation are essential, Robert Sharps, group chief investment officer for the active concentrated T. Rowe Price Group said...
With no mechanism to hold CEO Evan Spiegel accountable for his missteps, Snap’s investors can only watch the company’s ongoing struggles with frustration...
Long-time Musk allies dominate the electric-car maker's board and there's no sign they're going to intervene despite mounting problems and distractions for the company created by the CEO's behavior...
In the aftermath of a sexual harassment scandal, is it really that important to ensure that half of your company’s new board members are female? On Monday, CBS announced the appointment of six new board members, three of whom are women. The announcement comes in the wake of the abrupt departure of Leslie Moonves, who resigned as chief executive amid sexual harassment accusations by a number of women. Moonves is yet another casualty in the long list of men taken down by the #MeToo movement...
Alibaba is showing the West the blueprint for corporate governance and succession planning...
I highlight a company that should adopt ROIC as a performance measure before an activist comes in and does it for them...
Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple John Sculley has seen a lot and done a lot in his career including teaching Steve Jobs a thing or two...
Do board directors have a shelf life? If so, how do boards go about evolving and ever-improving their composition? Here are some suggestions...
Over the past decade, billions of dollars in assets flowed from actively managed funds into passive investments. While passive in name, institutional investors are becoming more active than ever, pushing companies to adopt corporate governance practices and focusing on long-term shareholder value...
Darden Restaurants is a lesson to managers. Stay focused on creating shareholder wealth...
New Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri addressed the company's future and falling share price while discussing second quarter financial results with analysts, just ten days after being named to replace the late Sergio Marchionne...
It is hard not to wonder if this crisis is news to the board. Did they really not know or suspect anything? If they didn’t, why not?
The deal would create a company with unmatched breadth in intellectual property for wireless communications and interconnects, security, microcontrollers and processors, and sensors – the critical components of the Internet of Things (IoT)...
Discussing information security with your board of directors can be a challenge all its own...
These attacks on corporate governance and fiduciary responsibility were once rare but are growing in frequency. In the early 2000s during the era of ...
Last Friday's release of the 1Q18 data on aggregate Japanese corporate profits showed a continued pause in our long-term theme about improving ...
Are you interested in Private Company Board Compensation trends? ... the importance of professional corporate governance to family companies...
For decades, CEOs have largely been seen as the top rung of the ladder, the ultimate decision makers and the source of “tone at the top,” to use an ...
Women are taking their rightful spots in American boardrooms in Fortune 1000 companies across the country, but progress is slow. In 2015, 18% of board members in Fortune 1000 companies were women. In 2016, women held 20.2% of board positions (registration required) in Fortune 500 companies – up from 10.2 % in 1996...
Improving corporate governance in Japan means investors should not worry about the low-level growth of the domestic economy there. Indeed, Japan is the only major country that is going through a structural improvement in corporate governance, and thus deserves special attention by global investors...
In terms of power, shareholders often have the last word, especially with a strong vote. We saw Blackrock demonstrate this on Tuesday as their CEO sent a letter to thousands of companies they hold in mutual funds and ETFs declaring, “a new model for corporate governance .” He went further to say that ...
Airbnb is adding its first independent director to its board, but it won't solve the diversity problem of an all-male board...
As a board of director member, it is your job to oversee the direction of the company. While you have the tenacity and foresight to lead your business, you may find that mistakes are made when it comes to communicating with your employees. There may not be enough communication with your staff or ...
