Corporate governance changed to mollify shareholders
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp., in an attempt to mollify Australian investors who had expressed concerns about its proposed reincorporation in the United States, late Wednesday said its board of directors has outlined a series of
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LIBERTY Media&#39;s move last week to grab up to 17.1 per cent of News Corporation voting stock has prompted the launch of a defensive shareholder rights plan.
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Japanese shareholders wield their power for the first time to block a merger that had been approved by the firms' boards.
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Many European groups that staged high-profile share listings on Wall Street in the 1990s are now slipping out the back door, giving up a fleeting status that turned out to be expensive and restrictive.
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State Street Corp. is joining the growing line of big companies that plan to change the way their directors are elected, abandoning a practice widely seen as insulating managers at the potential expense of shareholders.
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Chairman of the board retires and cashes out.
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Securities regulators yesterday voted to overhaul a corporate rule covering financial risks, reacting to intense pressure from Congress and years of criticism from industry groups who claim the directive proved too expensive and burdensome.
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A new trading tactic that could tip takeover battles has emerged from the hedge fund industry, sparking outrage among some investors and corporate governance experts.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- In a move designed to fortify itself a potential hostile takeovers, News Corp. adopted a &quot;poison pill&quot; shareholder rights plan.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp says it has approved stricter corporate governance provisions, soothing critics of a plan to shift its legal base to the United States from Australia.
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First it was the CEO -- now the CFO has left, too. What should shareholders be thinking?
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The white-hot movement to overhaul corporate governance has cooled in recent months in Washington and beyond.
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Changes in CFOs are worth investigating.
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After spending the past few years mounting a strong corporate governance campaign, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Friday that it would start easing its rules
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Every year, public companies put a number of questions before their stockholders for a vote. Investors weigh in on whether to reelect company directors, reappoint auditors, and approve or kill plans to give big stock option packages to senior executives.
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Unilever UNc.AS violated   corporate governance rules when it said in 2004 it would   convert some preference shares into common shares, Dutch   shareholder activist group VEB has concluded from an   investigation commissioned by the enterprise chamber of the   Amsterdam court.
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Drug maker Schering-Plough Corp.  said on Friday it is taking actions to improve corporate governance, including ending a "poison pill" anti-takeover provision and proposing directors be elected by a majority of votes cast instead of a plurality.