corporate directors

My advice to Directors: get out the vote!

By Dominic Jones on February 20, 2009

EVER since the folks at Risk Metrics asked me several weeks ago to write something for directors about communicating with shareholders, I’ve been struggling to put down my thoughts in some sort of coherent form.
The problem, you see, is that I don’t think there’s anything directors can do. Communication is not enough. PR and lobbying [...]

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An analogy that's hard to miss

By Dominic Jones on April 22, 2008

WHERE can you legally stuff the ballot boxes with votes from people who do not actually cast ballots? Where can you cling to your position by having those votes push you to a majority?
Why, in America, of course. This happens in elections of corporate directors under something called broker non-votes, which the New York Stock [...]

Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged chris cox, corporate directors, corporate governance, CtW, dow jones newswires, labor federation, Neal Lipschutz, new york stock exchange, nyse, SEC, securities and exchange commission, William Patterson | Leave a response