Wynn Resorts has added three women to its board: Dee Dee Myers, who was a White House spokeswoman in the Clinton administration; Betsy Atkins, an advocate of stronger corporate governance ; and Wendy Webb, a former investor-relations chief for Disney. (Bloomberg). • Deutsche Bank's C.O.O. ...
Kobe Steel disclosed that some of its executives had known about fake quality data for years — in at least one case, for decades — and blamed a companywide focus on profitability and weak corporate governance . It also said that more customers bought the products in question than it had originally ...
Companies often try to keep digital breaches quiet. That’s something the S.E.C. would like to end, but its guidance may not go very far in changing how companies deal with the issue...
It is seeking to elect six nominees to Qualcomm's board of directors at the annual meeting, which had been scheduled for Tuesday. That would give it a majority on Qualcomm's board. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a government panel that scrutinizes deals by foreign ...
The lawsuit, which refers to Harvey Weinstein by his initials, says that the company's management and board of directors “were repeatedly presented with credible evidence of HW's sexual harassment” of company employees and interns “and his use of corporate employees and resources to facilitate ...
In an email exchange with me, Lucian Bebchuk, a Harvard law professor and an expert in corporate governance , asked why the board did not suspend Mr. Wynn from his position pending the investigation, or demand that he not interact with Wynn Resorts employees, a step that would have limited his ...
The settlement is an attempt by the Fed to impress upon banks that their boards of directors should be vigorous, independent watchdogs — and if they fail, there will be consequences. That reflects a shift from regulators' historically hands-off approach to corporate boards, and the boards' role is likely to ...
The Fed said the bank will replace four members of its 16-person board of directors by the end of the year, as part of an unusually direct and forceful action by the federal government over the affairs of a large company. The move by the Fed follows revelations over the last two years that the bank had ...
Dell, the world's largest privately held technology company, is under pressure to increase profits after its debt-laden, $67 billion acquisition of the data-storage ... "The board of directors follows sound corporate governance practices, and will continue to do so in connection with any potential transaction ...
Several members quit after the 31-person board chose to retain Wayne Pacelle. An investigation has uncovered multiple complaints against him, according to The Washington Post...
If Procter & Gamble were sponsoring a 2018 advertisement for avoiding activists, it might include an in-house remedy for removing corporate stains. Investors seeking new strategies, more dividends, executive changes or board seats aren’t going away. If anything, the siege of P.&G...
In a news release announcing the deal, Meredith said that Koch Equity Development would not have a seat on Meredith's board of directors and ...
Howard Schultz, Starbucks and a History of Corporate Responsibility .... senior fellow of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance...
... to sell a significant stake of itself to SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate, paving the way for the ride-hailing company to make sweeping governance ...
"Confidentiality agreements which prohibit proper explanations to shareholders are bad corporate governance . Hence we refute your assertion that ...
Charles Elson, a professor and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, agreed. “This isn't a ...
Foreign investors seem less than worried about any lack of control or lapses in corporate governance if the market is any indication. Shares in those ...
The organization, CtW Investment Group, sent a letter to Viet D. Dinh, the chairman of the board's nominating and corporate governance committee, ...
James Murdoch was questioned about corporate governance at Twenty-First Century Fox, where there have been allegations of sexual and racial ...
... on Tuesday, with Procter & Gamble saying it had successfully fended off a campaign by the financier Nelson Peltz for a seat on its board of directors...
The insular, Cincinnati-based company thinks different. ... the director of corporate governance at the California State Teachers' Retirement System, ...
One of the proposals in the Republican tax plan set out last week — a bid to get American corporations to “repatriate” their untaxed corporate overseas profits — has support both in Congress and in the Trump administration...
Maybe someone on the board needs to be removed," said Brent Longnecker, head of compensation and corporate - governance consulting firm ...
