Henretta Sprint recently announced that it had added two new independent directors, Gordon Bethune and Deborah Henretta, to its board of directors. Bethune, who is chairman and CEO of $8.8 billion Continental Airlines, previously served at Boeing and is a director of Honeywell International and ExpressJet Holdings. Henretta is president of $43 billion Proctor & […]
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Former Enron Exec. Talks Corruption, Whistleblowing
It wasn’t your average webcast, to be sure. Instead of monotone, PowerPoint-based, advertising-in-disguise presentations, attendees at last week’s Shareholder.com event were treated to juicy first-hand accounts of Enron misdealings and candid advice for how companies can avoid a similar fate. DETAILS Webcast Details: Confessions of an Enron Executive Featured speaker Lynn Brewer led the rousing […]
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Disney Decision is no Mickey Mouse Event
Walt Disney Co. dissidents Roy Disney and Stanley Gold may be irked that Michael Eisner kept his job as chief executive officer, even though he was forced to relinquish the chairmanship in light of the large vote of no confidence he received from shareholders at its annual meeting last week. But, according to shareholder advocates, […]
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COSO Joint Author Joins Board Of Advisors At Integrify
Schwartz Sarbanes-Oxley software provider Integrify recently announced that Malcolm Schwartz, a principal contributor to the COSO Report, has joined the company’s advisory board. Schwartz has previously served at International Silver Company in senior financial positions, and was a senior partner with Coopers & Lybrand and PwC. He will help North Carolina-based Integrify define how the […]
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Litigation Update, With Hale And Dorr Senior Partners
BIOS William Paine is Vice Chairman of the Corporate and Securities Litigation Group at Hale and Dorr. Paine has substantial experience defending securities class actions brought in federal and state courts, and typically represents clients charged with violations of the securities laws, and clients subject to government investigations and civil enforcement actions. He regularly represents […]
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Who Are The Most Cost-Effective CEOs For Investors?
As part of a recent analysis of CEO pay, executive compensation firm Equilar provided a list of the five chief executives whose pay represented the smallest percentage of market cap increase over the past three years. “We thought it would be interesting to evaluate the CEOs who were the most cost effective from a shareholder’s […]
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Did Mattel Just Experience A Regulation FD Near Miss?
Did Mattel Inc. recently avoid a potential Reg FD violation? ORIGINAL COVERAGE Below is an excerpt from the original Bloomberg coverage: Mattel Says It Expects U.S. Barbie Sales To Rise This Year By Andrea Cheng, Feb. 13 — Mattel, Inc., the world’s biggest toymaker, expects new products including Cali Girl Barbie will lift U.S. sales […]
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Is Outsourcing, Tied To Compensation, The Next Activist Issue?
The boom in offshore outsourcing is not only a lightening rod for policy makers and unions — it is also becoming a corporate governance issue at this year’s annual meetings. As more and more companies send software design, call centers and other functions to cheap labor markets like India and China, a number of companies […]
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Q&A With PwC’s Global Systems, Process Assurance Leader
Last week, the SEC extended the compliance date for the internal control provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley. Accelerated filers will now need to comply for their first fiscal year ending on or after Nov. 15, 2004. The original compliance date was June 15. (Click here for details). This week, we talked with Lynn Edelson, the Global Leader […]
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With PwC’s Global Systems, Process Assurance Leader
Last week, the SEC extended the compliance date for the internal control provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley. Accelerated filers will now need to comply for their first fiscal year ending on or after Nov. 15, 2004. The original compliance date was June 15. (Click here for details). This week, we talked with Lynn Edelson, the Global Leader […]
