According to the latest Semler Brossy report, only three Russell 3000 companies (Nuance Communications, Digital Generation and Navistar) have failed their say-on-pay vote, with Navistar r...
The PCAOB has proposed a framework for reorganizing existing auditing standards based on topics. Currently, existing standards consist of “AS Standards,” which are new or amended stan...
As proxy season gets under way and the usual agitation over the influence of the proxy advisory firms begins, the Chamber of Commerce is trying to set some ground rules for the three main...
We spoke with Agenda for its recent article, “Large Companies Have Strictest Director Independence Standards” (subscription required), which explored the Conference Board’s 2013 Dir...
Hewlett-Packard’s annual meeting yesterday was preceded by a bustle of activity around the agenda items, with a string of news reports announcing that as many as 5 of its 11 board membe...
Is there a difference between a shareholder proposal that asks that the Board’s chairman be an independent director as defined by the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and who has no...
ISS QuickScores are now publicly available on companies’ Yahoo Finance pages, under the Business Summary link. The Corporate Governance section reports, as of March 1, 2013, a company?...
So far, as we launch into the proxy season, only a handful of companies have filed additional soliciting materials to dispute proxy advisory firm recommendations. These materials were alm...
At its meeting last week, Disney’s proxy access proposal received 40% in support. As we previously discussed here, the SEC Staff did not permit the company to exclude the proposal from...
In another move that more closely aligns Nasdaq listing standards with those of the NYSE, Nasdaq has filed a proposed rule change with the SEC that would require its listed companies to h...
