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Strategy Leadership WHAT WOULD YOU DO DIFFERENTLY?  Study after study purport to tell us what CEOs think about the big issues facing the world and business. These individual may well be in a position that most of us can't reach, and so they see things differently, more clearly, f...09 July 2010 Read full article
Governance Proxy voting SPLIT SEC BACKS PROXY ACCESS FOR SHAREHOLDERS  The US Securities and Exchange Commission needed to do something on corporate governance under the Dodd-Frank Act on financial regulation. What it decided was to give institutional investors the ability to nominate candidates fo...28 August 2010 Read full article
Responsiveness Disclosure EU WORKS TOWARDS PAN-EUROPEAN DISCLOSURE DATABASE  This work-in-progress is progressing. The Committee of European Securities Regulators has published a report and consultation paper about plans for a pan-European facility to provide access to all the regulatory disclosures made...07 August 2010 Read full article
views Shareholder activism CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE IN UK-US BOARD PRACTICE?  In the US shareholders have very few rights. Most votes are merely advisory, and the plurality system of director elections means anyone the board nominates will get elected, whatever shareholders think. In the UK, by contrast, ...27 August 2010 Read full article
reviews Sustainability PLUNDERING THE PLANET AND A NEW ETHICS OF NATURE  The debate over climate change and stubbornly high commodity prices during a recession in many developed economies have reignited the debate about whether economic growth is desirable or even feasible. Into this argument steps ...09 June 2010 Read full article | |||||
