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1. 2020 Activist Investor Report
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 1 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...hareholder scrutiny. CGLytics data shows that, of the 368 companies in our sample, 126 have combined Chairman/CEO roles—which is seen as poor corporate governance practice—while 137 have Lead Independent Directors (LID),...
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2. How CEO Pay in America Got Out of Whack
  
  Explore The Economist Jul 9 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...pt into a table of executive compensation, which has been removed. We also exaggerated the pay of Soren Skou, CEO of A.P. Moller-Maersk, as a result of an improper currency conversion. We apologise for the mistakes....
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3. Mark Wiseman Named Chair of AIMCo Board of Directors
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jun 19 2020 BoardMoves
  
  ...rk Wiseman is a leading investment manager and experienced corporate executive. He was formerly President and CEO of Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. He was Global Head of Active Equities for BlackRock, Inc. and C...
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4. Tesla’s Board Chair Faces Opposition From Proxy Advisers
  
  Explore MarketWatch Jun 16 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...iser said. This is “particularly concerning” because of Tesla’s ongoing shareholder concerns with the board’s independence, it said. ISS called for a shareholder vote against Denholm on concerns over the pledging of “sig...
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5. Veeco Announces Governance and Diversity Improvements to Its Board of Directors
  
  Explore GlobeNewswire May 7 2020 BoardMoves
  
  ... Having led the Company’s CEO succession plan, which resulted in the promotion of William J. Miller, Ph.D. to CEO in 2018, and believing that good governance calls for both an independent Chairman and a properly sized Bo...
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6. Reforms to Board Composition and Independence and Climate Competent Governance
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 22 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...idence that it will do so, with Lee Raymond as the purported counterweight to the power of combined Chair and CEO Jamie Dimon. Considering Raymond’s long tenure, his poor record on climate issues, and his potential ongoi...
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7. Experts Question Whether Boeing’s Board of Directors is Capable of Righting the Company
  
  Explore The Seattle Times Feb 7 2020 BoardNews
  
  ...ole on the board while Muilenburg was CEO in a surprisingly passive way, as he asserted his intent as the new CEO to fix Boeing’s cultural problems. “I get a lot of media attention around the idea that I’m somehow an ins...
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8. Board Composition and Shareholder Proposals
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 28 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...he California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Global Governance Principles state that “director independence can be compromised at 12 years of service,” while ISS’s QualityScore metric gives positive scores...
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9. The Rite Aid Board Prescription: Complete The Director Refill
  
  Explore Stock Market News & Financial Analysis Jan 16 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...their responsibility to work responsibly on succession planning all along should the Chairman/CEO, thereafter CEO, be unable to fulfill its duties to their shareholders. The result, a fast drop in our share price and com...
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10. Marathon Partners Delivers Letter to e.l.f. Board
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Dec 3 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...rticularly since approximately two-thirds of public shareholders did not support the election of Chairman and CEO Tarang Amin and Lead Independent Director Beth Pritchard in their uncontested election at the Company's la...
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11. The Real Qualifications Needed On Your Board Of Directors
  
  Explore forbes.com Oct 29 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ticular board. And these go way beyond the duty of care and loyalty. Board director qualifications range from CEO experience to deep knowledge of cyber security and data analytics. Regulatory experience for some and inte...
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  Mentions: Board Recruitment Delaware independence
12. Are we Misunderstanding the Elements That Lead to Good Governance?
  
  Explore Legal News, Lawyers, Law Firms Oct 21 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...t CEO’s tenure (who tend to be less independent, or “co-opted,” than those appointed previously) have “higher CEO pay levels, lower pay-for-performance, and lower sensitivity of CEO turnover to performance.” And yet anot...
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13. Loosey-Goosey Governance: Four Misunderstood Terms in Corporate Governance
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Oct 16 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...tors appointed during the current CEO’s tenure are less independent than those appointed prior to the current CEO’s tenure. The assumption is that directors appointed by the current CEO have allegiance to the CEO for hel...
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14. FSD Pharma Appoints Former Member of US Congress to its Board of Directors, Announces Share ...
  
  Explore businesswire.com Oct 11 2019 BoardMoves
  
  ...forward” said Raza Bokhari, MD, Executive Co-Chairman and CEO. “Steve’s addition has further strengthened the independence and profile of the FSD Pharma Board of Directors; his broad leadership experience and pharmaceuti...
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15. Investor Stewardship Reporting and Engagement
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Sep 22 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... to increase, as pay ratio regulations come into effect in 2020, requiring the disclosure of the ratio of the CEO’s pay to that of the company’s UK workforce. We identified several examples of investors engaging on gende...
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16. Facebook’s Privacy Settlement is Such a Joke, Mark Zuckerberg Likely Celebrated its Signing
  
  Explore Business Insider Jul 27 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...'s governance structure instead of changing it," Chopra said. "The 'Independent Privacy Committee' has little independence, no meaningful powers, and no buy-in from shareholders." But perhaps the worst part about the set...
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17. 2019 Proxy Season Review
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jul 26 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ders continue to believe that having the CEO or another executive serve as chair may negatively influence the independence of the board as a whole. Half of the independent chair proposals this year were submitted by John...
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18. Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Caremark Claim, Finding Lack of Board-Level Oversight and Director Independence
  
  Explore Legal News, Lawyers, Law Firms Jul 2 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ver, the director had voted against the CEO on an initiative to split the CEO and Chairman roles, despite the CEO’s threats to resign as CEO if his roles were split. Notwithstanding these pieces of evidence that the dire...
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19. EQT Strongly Disagrees with ISS Recommendation
  
  Explore Välkommen till Avanza! Jun 28 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ce as a public company CEO on the Board. Those are among the reasons EQT re-nominated Daniel Rice, the former CEO of Rice Energy, who together with the Rice family, owns 3.1% of EQT shares. However, we fail to see how To...
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20. Progenics to Mail Letter to Shareholders
  
  Explore Stock Market Data Today Jun 19 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...tes are also linked and interconnected through a web of past experiences, calling into serious question their independence, objectivity and alignment with the long-term interests of the Company and of stockholders other ...
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  Mentions: Governance Committee Annual Meeting Nasdaq
21. AstraZeneca Plots Search for Next Chairman
  
  Explore Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance Jun 3 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ssistance of the search firms MWM Consulting and Korn Ferry". Mr Johansson played a key role in securing AZ's independence when it rebuffed a proposed £55-a-share takeover by Pfizer - a controversial approach which raise...
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22. Activists Can Create Huge Value in a Bed Bath & Beyond Turnaround
  
  Explore forbes.com May 15 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...t campaign. If the activists succeed in replacing the board with their own nominees and bringing in their own CEO, that should provide a significant boost to the share price. Over the longer term, improvements in ROIC sh...
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23. Asia's Longest-Serving Directors Can Be Found in the Philippines
  
  Explore BNN Bloomberg Apr 28 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...re around 65, further pushing up the average age of the country’s directors, Institute of Corporate Directors CEO Alfredo Pascual said. “The board is the highest decision-making body of a company. You want to be able to ...
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24. Social Ties Bind CEO, Directors at Victoria's Secret Parent
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Mar 21 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...d on L Brands to consider breaking itself apart. "It is unclear that the board as currently comprised has the independence to effectively oversee you as chief executive officer," James A. Mitarotonda, chief executive of ...
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