Boards & Shareholders

In response to pressure from investor advocates, exchanges are pushing soon-to-be public companies away from multi-class IPOs that reduce, if not eliminate, shareholder control with non-voting shares.

A look at female board members in the technology industry and their continuing push against the silicon ceiling.

What’s the best way for compliance officers to communicate with directors? That question, like the strategies that answer it, are more important than ever before.

One lesson to come out of the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting: Directors and shareholders should fight to preserve their contentious relationship.

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, a luxury hospitality company, has appointed Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz, representing long-term shareholder Cascade Investment, to the company’s board of directors.

Despite controversy before and during its annual meeting, shareholders reelected all of Wells Fargo’s directors. But trouble still lies ahead for the post-scandal banking giant.

While the battle between regulation and deregulation rages on, shareholder protection may be a job best accomplished by boards.

Equal Pay Day highlights income inequality between men and women, and perhaps the answer to addressing unequal pay is through best corporate practice.

State Street Global Advisors is calling upon more than 3,500 companies it invests in “to take intentional steps to increase the number of women on their corporate boards.”