The Dirt on Greenwashing
Last month, Amazon founded The Climate Pledge, an environmental initiative to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. In doing so, it noted that signatorie...
“Test-the-Waters” Rule Lets Companies Dip a Toe in IPOs
It has been a rough year for IPOs, as highly touted offerings keep flopping. Ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. has seen its stock price fall...
SEC Completes Annual Enforcement Push
For many working professionals, the phrase “end of the fiscal year” can really twist the stomach. It’s just another date on the calendar, but wh...
Eye-Opening Pay Ratios Not Affecting Executive Compensation . . . Yet
The subject of executive compensation tends to linger around America’s boardrooms like a dormant virus. It can go quiet for months at a time. But at...
CEO Scrutiny Spikes WeWork IPO
The founders of companies getting ready for IPOs used to get lionized. Now, they’re getting thrown to the lions. It wasn’t so long ago that the...
Shareholder Activists Turn Attention to Gun Violence
Deadly mass shootings this year in places like El Paso and Dayton have yet to produce new gun-safety laws in the United States. Instead, Capitol Hill ...