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Tag: Board of Directors

SEC Blesses Nasdaq’s New Rules for Board Diversity

SEC Blesses Nasdaq’s New Rules for Board Diversity

SEC Blesses Nasdaq’s New Rules for Board Diversity

The Securities and Exchange Commission last week approved a request from the Nasdaq stock exchange to enact rules that would prod listed companies to diversify their boards of directors. We previously told you late last year about what Nasd...

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Study Highlights Problematic “Insider Giving”

Study Highlights Problematic “Insider Giving”

Study Highlights Problematic “Insider Giving”

You’ve heard of insider trading in which people buy or sell securities based on information that isn’t available to the public. But what about “insider giving?” According to a new study, it’s all the rage. Unlike insider trading, insider gi...

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Big Oil: Running on Fumes?

Big Oil: Running on Fumes?

Big Oil: Running on Fumes?

Since the first well was drilled, Big Oil has been able to draw from a deep well of political and economic clout. Lately, however, some of the sector’s biggest players have received signals that their reservoir of power isn’t infinite. Take...

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Footprint in mud with deep tread

Fink Leads Charge on Climate Disclosures

Footprint in mud with deep tread

Larry Fink may be the single most influential voice in the ESG movement—or at least the E movement. The annual letter that BlackRock’s chief executive writes to CEOs may have overtaken Warren Buffet’s letter to shareholders as the most impo...

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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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