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Articles mentioning both New York City Comptroller and CEO

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1. Amazon Shareholders Should Reject CEO Pay Package, Advisers Say
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance May 12 2022 BoardNews
  
  ...the company of illegally firing employees involved in union drives at its warehouses. Amazon denies that. The New York City Comptroller has asked fellow investors to vote against the reelection of Amazon directors Daniel...
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  Mentions: Amazon ISS New York City Comptroller
2. Taking the Amazon Union Battle to the C-suite: Shareholders Fight Back Against "higher immorality"
  
  Explore Salon.com May 7 2022 BoardNews
  
  ...o; Jonathan J. Rubinstein, former CEO of Bridgewater Associates; Patricia Q. Stonesifer, former president and CEO of Martha's Table; and Wendell P. Weeks, chairman and CEO of Corning International. As Henry observed, tha...
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  Mentions: Investment Goldman Sachs Amazon
3. 2021 Proxy Season Review
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Aug 5 2021 BoardBlogs
  
  ...special awards and mega grants. Equilar posited that the pandemic likely exacerbated shareholder criticism of CEO pay that was already viewed as unnecessarily high. 2021 has been a breakthrough year for shareholder advoc...
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  Mentions: Investment Management Annual Meeting
4. NYC Comptroller’s Boardroom Accountability 3.0 Results
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jun 24 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ts as well as to ensure that women and people of color are considered for CEO. As part of the initiative, the New York City Comptroller’s Office first sent letters requesting a CEO/board diversity search policy to 56 lar...
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  Mentions: Investment CFO Hilton
5. Board Composition and Shareholder Proposals
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 28 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ic diversity and calling on companies to adopt a version of the Rooney Rule for every open board seat and for CEO appointments. The SEC has not taken much action on this topic, but in February 2019, the SEC staff release...
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  Mentions: Management Citigroup Vanguard
6. The Boards, They Are A-Transformin’
  
  Explore forbes.com Nov 6 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...eople of color are welcomed in the door and considered for every open director seat as well as for the job of CEO.” While the Comptroller’s initiative is not a statutory requirement, it is the latest example of governmen...
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  Mentions: National Association of Corporate Directors Conference Leadership
7. Climate in the Boardroom
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Oct 7 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ing a widely recognized best practice of corporate governance and further concentrating power in the hands of CEO Larry Fink. BlackRock claims it fulfills its investment stewardship responsibilities through the sharehold...
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  Mentions: Management Vanguard New York City Comptroller
8. 2019 Proxy Season Review
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jul 26 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...al nominees is considered, and how the board is considering this issue for the upcoming meeting. In 2014, the New York City Comptroller launched the Boardroom Accountability Project, a nationwide campaign to implement pr...
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9. Facebook must do some 'deep soul searching' about Mark Zuckerberg's power after a huge shareholder revolt
  
  Explore Stock Market Data Today Jun 8 2019 BoardNews
  
  ... called on new board members — Jeff Zients, the CEO of investment firm Cranemere, and former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault — to take particular note of investor unrest. Read more: Facebook investors open new fron...
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  Mentions: Management Mark Zuckerberg Stringer
10. These Tesla Investors Want Even Bigger Changes on its Board
  
  Explore The Washington Post Nov 1 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...tion, or raising the attention of other shareholders. Their suggestion of refreshing the board and making the CEO/chairman split permanent are “totally called for," Elson said. “You shouldn’t be chairing the group that’s...
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  Mentions: Leadership Investment Delaware
11. Powerful Facebook Investors Just Co-Filed a Proposal to Take Down Mark Zuckerberg as Chairman
  
  Explore Business Insider Oct 17 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...o addressing real risks — reputational, regulatory, and the risk to our democracy — that impact the company," New York City Comptroller Stringer said in a statement. "An independent board chair is essential to moving Fac...
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  Mentions: Management Mark Zuckerberg Stringer
12. Facebook Investors Boasting $3 Billion in Shares Want to Topple 'Robber Baron' Mark Zuckerberg
  
  Explore Business Insider Jun 26 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...therefore near-complete control. "When you combine the dual roles of chairman and CEO, plus that chairman and CEO personally owns a majority stake of that company, that's a toxic brew. It means there's very little room f...
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  Mentions: Management IPO Google
13. Netflix Shareholders Raise Governance Issues At Annual Meeting
  
  Explore Hollywood Entertainment Breaking News Jun 7 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...pline, including firing. Netflix noted that federal law (Sarbanes-Oxley) already requires recoupment from the CEO and CFO if a company has to restate its financial results because of misconduct. The SEC also is in the pr...
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  Mentions: Annual Meeting CFO Stringer
14. Another Facebook Investor Turned up the Heat on Mark Zuckerberg for Running the Company Like a 'Dictatorship'
  
  Explore Business Insider May 10 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...me to act like an adult," Mastagni said. But don't expect Zuckerberg to relinquish his grip anytime soon. The CEO loves the existing structure because it means Facebook is "not at the whims of short-term shareholders," h...
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  Mentions: Investment IPO Mark Zuckerberg
15. BlackRock Publishes Updated Proxy Voting Guidelines
  
  Explore Legal News, Lawyers, Law Firms Feb 23 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...n of directors at 400 companies on grounds they failed to take steps to add women to their boards. Similarly, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and the New York City Pension Funds launched the “Boardroom Accoun...
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  Mentions: Investment Management State Street
16. NYC Comptroller Reports Two-Thirds of Engaged Companies Took Steps Toward Proxy Access
  
  Explore Pensions & Investments Jan 30 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... the report said. Proxy-access proposals focused on companies that had "inadequate board diversity, excessive CEO pay or exposure to risks related to climate change," the report said. Also, the report said seven of 10 he...
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  Mentions: Proxy Fight Stringer New York City Comptroller
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