Amazon has recently come under fire for the lack of diversity of its board of directors , but female representation on its board is near the average of the ...
Amazon shareholders are getting opposite advice on whether diversity should be mandated for the company's board ...
Facebook has a new board member: Jeff Zients, the CEO of Cranemere Group Limited, a holding company for “outstanding businesses in the United ...
That corporate governance change involved the three board members, who held three votes between them, converting most of their preferred shares in the company to common shares in order to break a deadlock with Gutman, who as the founder also held three votes, according to one person familiar ...
Facebook has added a new member to its board of directors : Ken Chenault, the CEO of American Express, who is set to retire from his post at AmEx in February. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the new appointment Thursday in a Facebook post, claiming he's been “trying to recruit Ken for ...
The Board of Directors is disappointed that a disagreement between shareholders has resulted in litigation. The Board has urged both parties to ...
Therefore, I have decided to resign from Uber's board of directors , effective tomorrow morning. It has been an honor and a privilege to serve on Uber's ...
Mindy Grossman, the former CEO of HSN and incoming CEO of Weight Watchers, has joined the board of directors of Fanatics, an online retailer of ...
Twitter co-founder and current board member Ev Williams is going to offload some of his Twitter stock. Williams, who was once Twitter’s CEO and is the company’s largest individual shareholder , said Thursday that he plans to sell a “minority of my TWTR” stock over the next year. A Twitter spokesperson said that he doesn’t plan to sell “more than 30 percent” of his holdings...
Snap has filed paperwork for an IPO and is expected to start trading its stock on the New York Stock Exchange early next month. That means almost anyone with a little money on hand will finally be able to invest in Snap, the company that makes Snapchat and those video-recording sunglasses, Spectacles . But there’s a bit of a catch: The shares Snap is selling don’t come with any voting rights....
A16z co-founder Ben Horowitz has joined Lyft's board of directors , the company announced in a blog post today. The venture firm led a $60 million ...
What boards need to know about emerging tech By Paula Loop, Leader, PwC’s Governance Insights Center Share New technologies—from and drones, to 3-D printing and predictive analytics—are disrupting how companies compete and create value. US CEOs believe investing in tech is the most direct path to meaningful innovation and operational efficiency, but new technologies are also generating risks that boards are scrambling to contain...
