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...Harvard has unveiled a diverse list of eight official candidates from academia and the cultural, medical and legal fields for its board of Overseers, who will compete for alumni support against four rival...
...The board only learned of the terms and Portnoy’s involvement as a pitchman “days prior to the launch”....
...The four Renew candidates hope to win backing from Harvard alumni to gain seats on the board of overseers....
...Thousands of international companies will still face pressure to meet the higher bar for climate risk information set by Europe, despite the wider gap in global standards created by the new lighter rules...
...In turn, boards need to be more effective advisers and overseers of a company’s risk profile — from stress testing and scenario planning to understanding how risks intertwine....
...board wrote in its annual general meeting report....
...“That was not the purpose behind creating these boards. They were for transparency and not for changing with the winds of the presidency. That’s the frustration of the employers I represent.”...
...All of this “substantially raises the bar for change at this time”, the proxy adviser said....
...Several who did not, also ended up behind bars....
...Currys’ largest shareholder has backed the board’s decision to reject a takeover bid from US investment group Elliott Management....
...Harvard has a 12-strong corporation and a broader board of 32 overseers. Board members sometimes come from a narrow range of fields and many do not have academic backgrounds....
...But the former president’s name resounded all week through the corridors and coffee bars of the Swiss resort....
...That may be a low bar, given the political turmoil since 2016, but in the past year the government has overseen an improvement in the business environment....
...Their deaths, including Walter Scott, Thomas Murphy and David “Sandy” Gottesman, have forced Berkshire to bring in a number of new overseers....
...While he conceded there were some corporate cases where turning to the US as a benchmark was relevant, “saying they set the bar on everything is nonsense”....
...But first the US Supreme Court is likely to have to make one of its most politically consequential judgments in decades: on whether the 14th Amendment can be used to bar Trump from ballots....
...The deaths of several board directors had already forced Berkshire to find new overseers. Walter Scott, a director for more than two decades, died in September 2021, aged 90....
...This reflects the moves that boards have made to adapt and how the bar for prosecution is high....
...But no matter how charismatic a boss is, a board should remember that a fatal flaw may bring them down. In this case, it was Looney’s lack of frankness in disclosing past relationships with employees....
...“Members of the opposition deserve bank accounts” ought to be a statement of the obvious....
...The service is impeccable, and front-of-house staff are terrific. The chic bars — the Spy Lounge and the George Bar — are not to be missed....
...Spain’s Catalan amnesty will not foster genuine reconciliation / From Pablo Aldrey, Barcelona, Spain...
...I was trying to fix the canopy-covered area at the back of my plot and had badly miscalculated how bulky the boards would be to take on the Tube....
...Improving standards across the board in the VCM is crucial, and almost every player in the market is in support of this. But standards alone are not a silver bullet for carbon market integrity....
...On Wednesday, Travis Laster, a vice-chancellor on the Delaware Court of Chancery, took aim at the corporate bar....
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