When it comes to human rights issues, Apple is in a no-win situation. Since 2006, it has received heavy criticism over worker...Read more

Google has ruffled institutional feathers by announcing an unusual stock split that cements the control of senior figures.

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Although companies find tracking their own regulatory compliance a tough enough challenge, they should be aware they can also find...Read more

In the economic meltdown, no investor has gone unscathed. Even a giant institution like CalPERS, the US’ biggest pension fund, has...Read more

When the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and NYSE Regulation merged into the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority...Read more

Normally, the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland is a lush affair. This year, however, irony proved the...Read more

When PricewaterhouseCoopers surveyed executives last year, asking them, among other things, what the primary driver of corporate...Read more

It was the stuff of a general counsel’s nightmares. An employee was making unsubstantiated, serious allegations about company...Read more

If any company should be happy with the SEC’s recent guidance on web disclosure of material information, it’s Sun Microsystems. After...Read more

Come January 1, 2011, every Canadian company is supposed to have switched its accounting from Canadian GAAP to international financial...Read more

CEO severance bonanzas did not end with the likes of Dick Grasso and Robert Nardelli. Already this year the SEC, citing Sarbanes-Oxley...Read more

When, in early March, North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole came out in favor of restricting Sarbanes-Oxley’s power over banks, she...Read more

Heinz’s historic ‘57 Varieties’ slogan stressed the breadth of its product line, but the company liked just one approach for its board...Read more

No one is surprised that the government is continuing to investigate cases in options backdating, the latest corporate scandal du jour...Read more

Companies have seen some revolutionary times in the last few years. With corporate scandals, extended governance regulation and recent...Read more

When the SEC talks, corporations had better listen, but one message many companies seem to be missing lately is 10b5-1 plans that...Read more

When companies restate their earnings, concerns about relationships with investors is probably top of mind. When ClearOne...Read more

Activist investing is now commonplace. Aided by regulatory advances and a changing attitude to ownership rights, shareholders are...Read more

Investors aren’t happy, and company leaders are feeling the effects. Over the past two years one CEO after another left companies...Read more

The New York Times has been running a series on CEO compensation that is the stuff of directors’ nightmares. On Tuesday, March 6, 2007...Read more

When Stacy Ingram arrived at Tyco in September 2004, the company had well and truly been through the scandal mill. Facing the glaring...Read more

There’s a delicious irony when two SEC chairmen insist that the commission work under the same regulatory demands as public companies...Read more

The fit between the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago, an electronic exchange, seemed natural. Not only did each have...Read more

Along with all the corporate regulations put in place over the past five years, there’s also been a renewed focus on director...Read more

It’s a personal injury lawyer’s dream. A client has a heart attack after taking a new prescription medication and sues the...Read more