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Month: December 2020

Huge Hack Highlights Disclosure Dilemma for Public Companies

Huge Hack Highlights Disclosure Dilemma

Huge Hack Highlights Disclosure Dilemma for Public Companies

For government agencies and private companies, the enormous hack making news this month revealed a fundamental flaw in their cyber defenses. It may have also revealed a fundamental flaw in the disclosure requirements for cyberattacks. The h...

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Since When is a Covid-19 Vaccine Bad for Business?

Since When is a Covid-19 Vaccine Bad for Business?

Since When is a Covid-19 Vaccine Bad for Business?

In the hellacious year that is 2020, the sight of semi-trucks pulling away from loading docks constitutes cause for celebration. Such was the scene over the weekend at a Pfizer manufacturing plant in Michigan, where onlookers cheered as del...

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SEC Steps Up Enforcement Actions for Insufficient Disclosure

SEC Steps Up Enforcement Actions for Insufficient Disclosure

SEC Steps Up Enforcement Actions for Insufficient Disclosure

The Cheesecake Factory is famous for pushing the limits of culinary convention – from its massive menus to its trademark desserts to somehow finding space for even more food on diners’ plates. The California-based chain recently broke a mor...

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ESG Playbook Offers Proxy-Season Tips

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Black Lives Matter. Raging wildfires. A deadly pandemic. A bitter election. The issues dominating American life in 2020 related closely to environmental, social, and governance topics. The same could be said of the 2020 proxy season, during...

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Nasdaq Becomes Latest to Demand Board Diversity

Nasdaq Becomes Latest to Demand Board Diversity

Nasdaq Becomes Latest to Demand Board Diversity

The Nasdaq stock exchange just became the latest institution to put some teeth into its call for more diversity in public company boardrooms. And Nasdaq’s fangs are sharper than most. In a move that some are celebrating as a tipping point o...

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