I’d like to draw your attention to a couple of worthwhile reads. The first is this LinkedIn post from HP CEO Enrique Lores, following an appearance before the California Senate yesterday by HP’s strategy chief, Kim Rivera...
The movement for gender diversity on corporate boards has made real progress in the past decade, inching past the long-sought milestone of 20% female representation on Fortune 1000 boards in 2017. But while that effort has always aimed to include women of color, broader racial diversity has never been its first priority...
For months, BP had planned this year’s annual general meeting as a sleek presentation. The company’s brand-new CEO would be onstage at London’s ExCeL convention center, trumpeting his green revolution to hundreds of shareholders. But this being 2020, nothing went as planned. When the day of the meeting finally arrived in late May, there was no audience, and no applause...
As the coronavirus pandemic began to decimate American businesses in March, companies struggling financially rushed to cut executive pay as a signal to their customers and workforces: We're in this together. But some firms that slashed CEO compensation are already—barely a quarter later—starting to reinstate it...
Two former top eBay security executives and four other ex-employees face federal conspiracy charges of stalking the staff of an e-commerce newsletter by sending them live cockroaches and a funeral wreath...
This effort is often formalized as “ESG investing”—a strategy that involves weighing the environmental, social, and good governance impacts of ...
Recent shareholder votes against executive compensation plans at CVS and Intel may signal poor future stock performance by those companies, a new report said...
The Improving Corporate Governance Through Diversity Act would require public companies to annually disclose the voluntarily self-identified gender, ...
Kohl’s CEO Kevin Mansell is stepping down next year, ending a 10-year run at the helm of a retailer he helped turned into a behemoth but that has struggled of late. The company said on Tuesday that Mansell would step down in May and be replaced by Kohl’s chief merchant and chief customer officer Michelle Gass...
Las Vegas has a reputation for excess and non-stop entertainment, but Las Vegas Strip-based companies are increasingly stepping up as responsible global citizens. This may be surprising to those who think of Las Vegas as “Sin City,” but we are pioneering corporate cultures that embrace a commitment to society that extends beyond simply serving customers and growing bottom lines...
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped aside from their duties at parent company Alphabet on Tuesday in a move that analysts say marks "the end of an era." The surprise shakeup, which elevates Google CEO Sundar Pichai as Alphabet's CEO, raises inevitable questions about Alphabet's future. The holding company was spawned four years ago in an effort to create more focused businesses units...
HP Inc.'s board of directors has rejected Xerox's blockbuster bid to take over the personal computer and printing giant. In a public letter released on ...
This week saw the release of the final episode of Jamie Bartlett’s fantastic BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen, which I’ve referenced in this newsletter several times already. In it, Bartlett and his team try to track down the missing Dr. Ruja Ignatova, apparent mastermind of the cryptocurrency-themed pyramid scheme OneCoin...
Under Armour Inc. shares plunged after the company disclosed that federal officials have been probing its accounting practices for more than two years, bringing a fresh headache to investors just as the sports brand prepares for a CEO transition...
McDonald's chief executive officer has been pushed out of the company after violating company policy by engaging in a consensual relationship with an employee, the corporation said Sunday...
Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk may be famous for the sort of unpredictable, headache-inducing antics that test investors and regulators, but how is it chairing his company’s board?...
Under Armour founder and Chief Executive Kevin Plank will step down from the sports apparel company's top role in January, handing over the reins to its president, Patrik Frisk...
After weeks of conjecture over what the future holds for WeWork, the company's board of directors is due to meet Tuesday to decide between ...
Only 9% of male board directors support mandates—like California's recent law—governing the gender makeup of boards of directors , according to a ...
Those include an equity ownership stake in WeWork; the company's S-1 ... regulations and questions about the company's corporate governance...
With stocks pricey and the economy weakening, more CEOs and boards of directors will come under pressure to create value, including by breaking ...
Accounting sleuth Harry Markopolos believes GE is engaged in accounting fraud so vast that the storied conglomerate will soon be forced into bankruptcy. Markopolos was the lone person to sound the alarm on Bernie Madoff's Ponzi operation, and gained fame and credibility by turning out to be spectacularly right, raising fears he could be right about GE as well...
Cybersecurity expertise might be the key to a generous salary, according to a new ranking of company salaries.
Palo Alto Networks tops a list of the 25 highest paying companies in America from career site Glassdoor, coming in with a median salary of $170,929. That puts it ahead of Nvidia, where the average employee takes home $170,068 per year.
Here's how the rest of the Top 10 shakes out, with median total salaries listed...
Google employees have announced they are joining their big tech counterparts at Amazon and Microsoft in walking off the job on Sept. 20 to participate in the global climate strike.
The climate change protests are set to take place on Friday in 150 countries around the world, sending a message to leaders who are set to meet Monday, Sept. 23 for the 2019 Climate Action Summit. A second wave of protests is also scheduled for Sept. 27...