Business Roundtable Statement Spurs Lively Debate
For decades, corporations in the United States have enjoyed the luxury of operating with a single-minded focus on creating shareholder value. They’v...
Wall Street Still Charmed by Musk
As preoccupied as Elon Musk can get with his petty feuds and outlandish side projects (spoiler alert: very), his antics haven’t stopped Tesla Inc. f...
Slack Sends Message to Market With Direct Listing
Slack Technologies Inc. is poised to become the latest of the so-called unicorn companies to go public. The maker of workplace-collaboration app Slack...
Tech Employees Appear Ready to Flex Muscles as Shareholders
Back during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, tech companies became notorious for lavishing employees with company stock and options as a form of co...
How to Make $2.7 Trillion in Foreign Profits Disappear
If someone tells you they know what’s going to happen with the $2.7 trillion in profits that U.S. companies are holding overseas, be skeptical. Itâ€...
Will New SEC Guidance on Shareholder Proposals Impact the 2018 Proxy Season?
With the 2018 proxy season on the not-so-distant horizon, issuers need to take into consideration new SEC guidance that could give companies reason to...