The use of underlying profit as an indicator of corporate performance risks misleading investors, according to a recent study conducted by Deloitte. The firm surveyed the 2010 annual reports of 100 publicly listed and other large New Zealand companies, finding that in 92% of the filings, the highlighted underlying profit improved the More…
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 July 24th, 2011 | 
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 | EU Commissioner Michel Barnier’s Green Paper on Corporate Governance closed for consultation on Friday. The irony of the US declaration that shareholders cannot nominate their own directors coming out on the same day will not be lost on the governance community. What is at stake is “Comply or Explain” versus a rules -based regulatory More… July 24th, 2011 | 
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| When market commentators talk about corporate governance they often refer to the “Anglo-American Model” of governance, as opposed to the EU’s stakeholder orientated approach. Friday’s decision by the US courts to reject shareholder “proxy access” should leave observers in no doubt that there’s nothing much “Anglo” about the American approach to governance. Despite shareholders’ ability in many More… July 10th, 2011 |
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| As shareholders were coming to terms with the implications of last week’s shocking disclosures about phone-hacking at NewsCorp, Simon Caulkin, former management correspondent at the Observer tweeted a thought-provoking observation: Re Murdochs of the world: “Our only chance of having powerful be good is to have more good become powerful” JPfeffer/HBR ow.ly/4ZM5i The More… July 10th, 2011 |
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| New research from Wharton shows that stock options lead to more risk taking by CEOs. The research is presented in a new paper, “CEO Compensation and Corporate Risk Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” by Gormley, David Matsa, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and Todd Milbourn, a professor at Olin Business School More… |
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