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Frontier Communications matches each of its ten board members with a senior leader in a two-year, rotating mentorship program,...Read more
Elizabeth Judd
Elizabeth Judd, a graduate of Yale and University of Michigan, regularly writes about investor relations, corporate governance and new fiction
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In February 2014, when Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s chief executive, he received one-time long-term performance stock awards worth...Read more
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Public companies and proxy advisers have been engaged in a heated feud from almost the moment ISS and Glass Lewis arrived on the scene...Read more
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The reputational fallout from the hacking of Sony Pictures has played out like a mini-series of misery, with no clear end in sight...Read more
August 2016
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Frontier Communications matches each of its ten board members with a senior leader in a two-year, rotating mentorship program,...Read more
March 2016
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In February 2014, when Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s chief executive, he received one-time long-term performance stock awards worth...Read more
October 2015
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Public companies and proxy advisers have been engaged in a heated feud from almost the moment ISS and Glass Lewis arrived on the scene...Read more
April 2015
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The reputational fallout from the hacking of Sony Pictures has played out like a mini-series of misery, with no clear end in sight...Read more
January 2015
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Settling might be considered the new black within the increasingly scrutinized world
of proxy contests. Companies from Microsoft to...Read more
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In the five years since public companies were first required to create and publish a compensation
discussion and analysis (CD&A...Read more
August 2014
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Our college graduates can’t write!’ is the kind of provocative statement that Bruce Nolop, chairman of Marsh & McLennan’s audit...Read more
July 2014
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In the hedge fund world, Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management spawned the Tiger Cubs, successors trained by the Old Guard who then...Read more
November 2013
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On June 11, when Lululemon CEO Christine Day announced she was leaving on the heels of a very public flap over the firm’s see-through...Read more
January 2013
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Corporate Secretary presents a 12-page supplement designed to highlight some of the positive changes and advancements in Director...Read more
April 2012
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Everyone loves getting an extension on a looming deadline. In late January, p ublic companies got just such a reprieve when the SEC...Read more
January 2012
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In 2006, when Microsoft’s compensation committee drafted the company’s first clawback policy , there was no real outcry, recalls John...Read more
October 2011
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When the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) announced which S&P 500 companies were included in its 2011 leadership index – an honor...Read more
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The SEC does not know whether the shared data was misused, but Thomas Bayer, the SEC’s chief information officer, recently sent...Read more
August 2011
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When Elaine Weinstein, executive vice president of Mullin & Associates, served on KeySpan’s board, a self-evaluation of the board...Read more
July 2011
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As previously stable governments including Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Jordan and Oman began experiencing civil unrest earlier this year,...Read more
May 2011
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Tsunamis, erupting volcanoes and terrorist attacks aren’t just the stuff of action movies; they’re central to the conversation savvy...Read more
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Almost all public companies buy directors and officers liability (D&O) insurance, providing officers and boards with protection...Read more
March 2011
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JCrew executives may have their fingers on the hip and happening pulse of fashion-forward America, but in the corporate governance...Read more
February 2011
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In a poker game, if one player has a pair of twos and the other a pair of kings, who is more likely to win? Travis Dirks, managing...Read more
October 2010
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On September 24, moviegoers attending the opening of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: money never sleeps in Manhattan may also have seen...Read more
August 2010
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When the financial crisis hit, mergers and acquisitions were plunged into a deep freeze and deals simply ceased. Now, nearly two years...Read more
July 2009
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For years, proxy battles rarely, if ever, cost top management or boards any sleep in Canada. Not only were battles rarely successful,...Read more
June 2009
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Antiquated’, ‘unfair’ and ‘dysfunctional’ are all terms that are frequently bandied about to describe America’s proxy distribution...Read more
April 2009
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The past few months have brought a flurry of dramatic executive compensation announcements, including draconian caps on CEO...Read more
December 2008
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In September, when Senator John McCain declared that his presidential response to the country’s economic woes would be to fire the...Read more
October 2008
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On September 4, 2008 a federal judge sanctioned Oracle for failing to preserve thousands of CEO Larry Ellison’s emails as well as...Read more
June 2008
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All happy companies might be alike, but all unhappy companies are unhappy in their own way. Kellwood Company, a Saint Louis-based...Read more
April 2008
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No matter how brilliantly IROs refine their techniques, they keep bumping up against brick walls. Communicating directly with...Read more
March 2008
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Last summer, when Pfizer announced that its directors would meet ‘face-to-face’ with representatives of the pharmaceutical giant’s...Read more
February 2008
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Of all the various correctives to excessive executive compensation available to companies, clawbacks may be one of the least...Read more
January 2008
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Last year, companies could still dismiss the idea of reporting about climate change and other more speculative environmental risks as...Read more
September 2007
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On July 25, the SEC announced it would issue a concept release to explore whether US companies should be able to report their...Read more
August 2007
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Whether you view the SEC’s new ‘notice and access’ rule as terrific or just one more confusing possibility amidst a rapidly-changing...Read more
June 2007
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What if an investor borrowed shares or engaged in an equity swap, acquired voting rights on your company’s record date, and then...Read more
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In 2004, more than two years before Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ hit movie theatres nationwide, Cinergy, now part of Duke Energy...Read more
April 2007
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Astronomic executive pay arouses shareholder ire like practically no other issue out there. So on February 14th, when Aflac announced...Read more
November 2006
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Leading by example, or tone at the top as it is often referred to in governance circles, is an idea that is certainly gaining traction...Read more
August 2006
May 2006
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In March shareholder activists once again filed a proxy proposal asking Pfizer to split the roles of CEO and chairman of the board...Read more
October 2005
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In an informal show of hands at this summer's annual meet- ing of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals,...Read more
September 2005
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Can companies skate by with their current staff, simply requiring them to work harder and smarter, or do they need more personnel? And...Read more
April 2005
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Finding a transfer agent whose representatives could recognize – and spell – Kalaniana’ole Highway and other vowel-laden Hawaiian...Read more
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Aged 90, Appel is younger than former US President Gerald Ford, but he is due to retire from Citigroup in April. In fact, a recent...Read more
March 2005
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‘Because there’s a buzz about how important minutes are, people who draft minutes are paying more attention,’ says Robert Lamm, senior...Read more
September 2004
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Corporate issuers are placing more demands on their stock transfer agents than ever before, and their top requirements are that...Read more
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It seems to be the singular fate of the annual report to inspire controversy. In any given year, it’s possible to find an expert...Read more
August 2016
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Frontier Communications matches each of its ten board members with a senior leader in a two-year, rotating mentorship program,...Read more
March 2016
article
In February 2014, when Satya Nadella became Microsoft’s chief executive, he received one-time long-term performance stock awards worth...Read more
October 2015
article
Public companies and proxy advisers have been engaged in a heated feud from almost the moment ISS and Glass Lewis arrived on the scene...Read more
April 2015
article
The reputational fallout from the hacking of Sony Pictures has played out like a mini-series of misery, with no clear end in sight...Read more
January 2015
article
Settling might be considered the new black within the increasingly scrutinized world
of proxy contests. Companies from Microsoft to...Read more
article
In the five years since public companies were first required to create and publish a compensation
discussion and analysis (CD&A...Read more
August 2014
article
Our college graduates can’t write!’ is the kind of provocative statement that Bruce Nolop, chairman of Marsh & McLennan’s audit...Read more
July 2014
article
In the hedge fund world, Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management spawned the Tiger Cubs, successors trained by the Old Guard who then...Read more
November 2013
article
On June 11, when Lululemon CEO Christine Day announced she was leaving on the heels of a very public flap over the firm’s see-through...Read more
January 2013
article
Corporate Secretary presents a 12-page supplement designed to highlight some of the positive changes and advancements in Director...Read more
April 2012
article
Everyone loves getting an extension on a looming deadline. In late January, p ublic companies got just such a reprieve when the SEC...Read more
January 2012
article
In 2006, when Microsoft’s compensation committee drafted the company’s first clawback policy , there was no real outcry, recalls John...Read more
October 2011
article
When the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) announced which S&P 500 companies were included in its 2011 leadership index – an honor...Read more
article
The SEC does not know whether the shared data was misused, but Thomas Bayer, the SEC’s chief information officer, recently sent...Read more
August 2011
article
When Elaine Weinstein, executive vice president of Mullin & Associates, served on KeySpan’s board, a self-evaluation of the board...Read more
July 2011
article
As previously stable governments including Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Jordan and Oman began experiencing civil unrest earlier this year,...Read more
May 2011
article
Tsunamis, erupting volcanoes and terrorist attacks aren’t just the stuff of action movies; they’re central to the conversation savvy...Read more
article
Almost all public companies buy directors and officers liability (D&O) insurance, providing officers and boards with protection...Read more
March 2011
article
JCrew executives may have their fingers on the hip and happening pulse of fashion-forward America, but in the corporate governance...Read more
February 2011
article
In a poker game, if one player has a pair of twos and the other a pair of kings, who is more likely to win? Travis Dirks, managing...Read more
October 2010
article
On September 24, moviegoers attending the opening of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: money never sleeps in Manhattan may also have seen...Read more
August 2010
article
When the financial crisis hit, mergers and acquisitions were plunged into a deep freeze and deals simply ceased. Now, nearly two years...Read more
July 2009
article
For years, proxy battles rarely, if ever, cost top management or boards any sleep in Canada. Not only were battles rarely successful,...Read more
June 2009
article
Antiquated’, ‘unfair’ and ‘dysfunctional’ are all terms that are frequently bandied about to describe America’s proxy distribution...Read more
April 2009
article
The past few months have brought a flurry of dramatic executive compensation announcements, including draconian caps on CEO...Read more
December 2008
article
In September, when Senator John McCain declared that his presidential response to the country’s economic woes would be to fire the...Read more
October 2008
article
On September 4, 2008 a federal judge sanctioned Oracle for failing to preserve thousands of CEO Larry Ellison’s emails as well as...Read more
June 2008
article
All happy companies might be alike, but all unhappy companies are unhappy in their own way. Kellwood Company, a Saint Louis-based...Read more
April 2008
article
No matter how brilliantly IROs refine their techniques, they keep bumping up against brick walls. Communicating directly with...Read more
March 2008
article
Last summer, when Pfizer announced that its directors would meet ‘face-to-face’ with representatives of the pharmaceutical giant’s...Read more
February 2008
article
Of all the various correctives to excessive executive compensation available to companies, clawbacks may be one of the least...Read more
January 2008
article
Last year, companies could still dismiss the idea of reporting about climate change and other more speculative environmental risks as...Read more
September 2007
article
On July 25, the SEC announced it would issue a concept release to explore whether US companies should be able to report their...Read more
August 2007
article
Whether you view the SEC’s new ‘notice and access’ rule as terrific or just one more confusing possibility amidst a rapidly-changing...Read more
June 2007
article
What if an investor borrowed shares or engaged in an equity swap, acquired voting rights on your company’s record date, and then...Read more
article
In 2004, more than two years before Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ hit movie theatres nationwide, Cinergy, now part of Duke Energy...Read more
April 2007
article
Astronomic executive pay arouses shareholder ire like practically no other issue out there. So on February 14th, when Aflac announced...Read more
November 2006
article
Leading by example, or tone at the top as it is often referred to in governance circles, is an idea that is certainly gaining traction...Read more
August 2006
May 2006
article
In March shareholder activists once again filed a proxy proposal asking Pfizer to split the roles of CEO and chairman of the board...Read more
October 2005
article
In an informal show of hands at this summer's annual meet- ing of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals,...Read more
September 2005
article
Can companies skate by with their current staff, simply requiring them to work harder and smarter, or do they need more personnel? And...Read more
April 2005
article
Finding a transfer agent whose representatives could recognize – and spell – Kalaniana’ole Highway and other vowel-laden Hawaiian...Read more
article
Aged 90, Appel is younger than former US President Gerald Ford, but he is due to retire from Citigroup in April. In fact, a recent...Read more
March 2005
article
‘Because there’s a buzz about how important minutes are, people who draft minutes are paying more attention,’ says Robert Lamm, senior...Read more
September 2004
article
Corporate issuers are placing more demands on their stock transfer agents than ever before, and their top requirements are that...Read more
article
It seems to be the singular fate of the annual report to inspire controversy. In any given year, it’s possible to find an expert...Read more
