CenterPoint Energy shareholders on Friday rejected CEO David Lesar's compensation package in nonbinding vote that sends a message to the Houston utility's board that they disapprove of the nearly $38 million Lesar received in 2021. The vote at CenterPoint's annual meeting came two days after a report by the Energy and Policy Institute, a San Francisco watchdog group, showed that Lesar's compensation in 2021 was far higher...

Independent proxy advisory firms have taken opposing sides in a battle for power that will be decided next week at Huntsman Corp., the Houston-area chemical company run by the prominent family of the same name. Conflicting recommendations made by Glass Lewis and ISS set up a difficult choice for shareholders, who are scheduled to vote for directors during the company\u2019s annual meeting March 25...

Exxon Mobil faces its biggest challenge yet from activist investors who have long pressured the U.S. oil giant to address more urgently the growing risk of climate change to its fossil fuels business...

Our culture of hero-worship has even convinced corporate boards at JC ... Board directors argue that overpaying executives is the only way to attract ...

Under the company's articles of association, members of the seven-person board of directors is made up of the CEO and six independent members ...

Activist investor Carl Icahn won three seats on Occidental Petroleum’s board during the first shareholder vote since the Houston company’s controversial acquisition of rival Anadarko Petroleum last year...

... investors voted in favor of the proposal, which would amount to one of the biggest corporate governance changes in Exxon's history if passed...

Weeks after resigning as Secretary of Energy, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry has rejoined the board of directors overseeing the Dallas pipeline ...

A: Board Ready Women is an invitation-only program held over the course of several months (one session per month). Each session focuses on a different topic, such as the changing landscape of corporate governance , shareholder activism, or how executives can hone their personal brand with board ...

... Kumar, the executive director of the Gutierrez Energy Management Institute at the University of Houston and a corporate governance specialist...

Corporate governance will always be a challenge, but if boards don't get some of these huge payouts under control, they can't be surprised if a ...

Dr. Tom Arnold, elected to the Board of Directors of Health Care Internet Technology, Inc...

"Executive compensation and corporate performance were not fully aligned at the Company. Nonetheless, we recognize that this disconnect was not particularly severe," Glass, Lewis & Co. wrote, noting that it will continue to monitor how compensation...

This year, executive compensation experts say, U.S. oil companies will likely have to defer bonuses and freeze or cut salaries for their top brass. Already, one high-paid energy executive is taking a 10 percent cut in his base salary. In some cases, pay ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 30: Charif Souki from Cheniere Energy, appears on stage during the INYT/Energy Intelligence Oil & Money Conference - Day 2 on October 30, 2014 in London, England. (Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for The New ...