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Tag: Disclosure

Potential Cybersecurity Strategies Taking Shape, Including Disclosure Rules

Potential Cybersecurity Strategies Taking Shape, Including Disclosure Rules

Potential Cybersecurity Strategies Taking Shape, Including Disclosure Rules

Last month, we detailed the emerging threats posed by cyberattacks to companies and the public at large. We also discussed the absence of obvious solutions to improve defenses against hackers. We’re starting to see some strategies for possi...

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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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Polluted Factory: ESG Environmental Impact

A Farewell to Principles-based Disclosure?

Polluted Factory: ESG Environmental Impact

A changing of the guard in the White House means new faces in high-profile places throughout the executive branch. At the Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman Jay Clayton, an appointee of the outgoing president, has already announce...

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Mathematical Pay Ratios Written on Chalkboard

CEO Pay-Ratio Math Gets Messy in 2020

Mathematical Pay Ratios Written on Chalkboard

As far as math problems go, it’s not a hard one. You take the CEO’s compensation and divide it by the compensation of the median employee. Presto! Just like that, you’ve got the CEO pay ratio that public companies have been required to disc...

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