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...“Where it’s a consistent series of articles and the theme is similar, it’s a red flag to a board that they’re going to have to dig deeper,” said Charles Elson, director at the University of Delaware’s John...
...To my astonishment, the vote of thanks was given by former minister and Enron ex-director Lord John Wakeham....
...John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum by Alison Morris (£49.95, Phaidon)The latest in this Phaidon series explores the creative principles of the architectural designer John Pawson....
...“Whatever you call succession planning is there in name, but not in fact because of the dual class [stock],” said Charles Elson, professor of finance at the University of Delaware....
...He will carry on being a reckless and impulsive person,” said John Coffee, a professor at Columbia University law school....
...The scandal has already cost John Stumpf his job as the bank’s chief executive....
...The bank, which has been in the spotlight for months over sales malpractice in its branches, had prised apart the two positions when John Stumpf quit suddenly in October....
...Prof Elson adds that the payment would have been reflected in the company’s books....
...The statement was signed by Diane Elson, Mariana Mazzucato, Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ann Pettifor and Simon Wren-Lewis....
...John-Paul Savant, chief executive of payday lender Elevate Credit International, admitted the cap would prove a setback for his business’s target to become profitable....
...However, Mr Elson still questioned whether the company needed to pay Mr Ellison as much....
...But Charles Elson, professor of corporate governance at the University of Delaware, questions whether they have the desired effect in a takeover situation....
...Duncan Elson, partner and head of contentious trust and estates group at Charles Russell, says disputes over wills are growing significantly....
...“If you have to get down to this, it suggests that the price wasn’t that strong,” said Charles Elson, a professor of corporate governance at the University of Delaware....
...That should reduce the risk of challenges such as that mounted by John Malone in 2004, when he began building a 16.3 per cent voting stake in News Corp....
...The board is changing, as Andrew Knight and Arthur Siskind, who became directors in 1991, are retiring, as is John Thornton, a board member since 2004....
...John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods the natural-goods grocery chain, has thrown his weight behind a parallel, broader movement for “conscious capitalism”....
...John Wilcox of Sodali, a governance consultancy, also sees challenges ahead in 2012: “All the principal players – shareholders, regulators, companies and boards – are under pressure to change in fundamental...
...“You are destroying accountability and it leaves you with a potential conflict of interest between smaller shareholders and the controlling investor,” says Charles Elson, director of the John L....
...However, while Prof Elson supports what may seem to be a futile act, he was under no illusion that anyone other Mr Murdoch would decide the manner and timing of his own departure....
...As for St John, it has a history of attempting to jazz its image up by partnering with unexpected celebs (past campaigns have featured Angelina Jolie and Brit Karen Elson....
...At Citigroup, John Gerspach was the bank’s fifth finance chief in five years when he took over in July 2009 amid a spat between the Citi’s management and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, one of...
...“For a profit-sharing agreement to be effective as an incentive, the bar has to be set high,” said Charles Elson, director of Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware....
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