The 2011 Corporate Board of Directors Survey from Stanford’s Rock Center and Heidrick & Struggles suggests that active CEOs may not make the best board members. We asked Professor Davi...
The SEC issued a press release today confirming that it is not seeking rehearing of the court decision to vacate the proxy access rule it had adopted, Rule 14a-11. Of particular interest...
Earlier this week, the SEC announced a settlement with the former CFO of Beazer Homes USA to clawback incentive compensation and profits from the sale of Beazer stock of more than $1.4 mi...
A fairly recent development in governance proposals has been the surge in proposals seeking the ability of shareholders to act by written consent, in lieu of a meeting. The proposal has g...
ISS has issued its preliminary US post-season report, which is full of useful statistics about the 2011 proxy season for the data hound. Broc notes some of the key highlights in TheCorpo...
The SEC website contains a schedule of Dodd-Frank rulemaking, which has been helpful but at times confusing when the schedule is updated with little notice. Currently, the schedule for t...
As of July 2010, 43% of S&P 500 companies have separate CEO and chairman positions, but only about half of those companies have an independent chair. The debate about the value of having...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today vacated Exchange Act Rule 14a-11, which would have required U.S. public companies to include shareholder nominees for election as directors in thei...
As a result of targeted activism in the last few years, more than half of the S&P 500 companies now allow shareholders to call special meetings. The number of shareholder proposals relat...
As is their customary timing, on Friday afternoon the SEC issued several updated CD&I interpretations of particular interest to the governance community:
–Information About Non-Continu...
