It is shaping up as a very busy season for shareholder activism, in part because of investor disgust with the lack of management oversight of lending practices that led to the current sub prime and credit crisis. So far this year, shareholders have put forward 1,106 proposals...
This paper examines long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors between 1993 and 2006. Abnormal returns surrounding investor activism are high for the subset of targets that are acquired ex-post, but not detectably different from zero for targets that remain...
Article discusses the standards for Proxy Season. It states that proxy season was unpleasant experience for many publicly traded companies in the past. Due to negative reaction to a series of corporate scandals, it has resulted in the adoption of the Sarb
Many women have been important leaders in environmentalism. The inspiration for Rachel?s Network, Rachel Carson, sparked a movement with the publication of her book Silent Spring and her subsequent activism. Rachel?s Network is providing an important pathway and inspiration for calling attention to the pressing environmental issues facing our country...
Confidence in such measures as guides for activist monetary policy proved counterproductive at times, resulting in excessive activism, such as during the Great Inflation and at the brink of the Great Depression. Policy during the past two decades is broadly consistent with natural-growth targeting variants of the Taylor rule that...
This paper examines the environmental experiences of middle and working class whites and people of color in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. It examines their activism and how their environmental experiences influenced the kinds of discourses they developed. The paper posits that race, class, and gender...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San FranciscoC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, will take place in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, August 29 to September 1. ...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TEAM building isn't merely something organisations do because it creates harmonious work groups, or is fun to do. It is a way to bring out the power of collaboration among individuals. It is a proven method for blending the talents, skills, and inherent creativity of diverse...
DESPITE an upsurge in human resource development HRD activities in organisations, training departments are still hard put to justify their usefulness and importance to their employers. Part of the reason is that the proliferation of HRD activities has blurred the distinction between what is truly needed by the organisation to...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CORPORATE social responsibility CSR is a concept that frequently overlaps with similar approaches such as corporate sustainability, corporate sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and corporate citizenship. While CSR does not have a universal definition, many see it as the private sector's way of integrating the economic, social,...
In our daily life, we generally expect the transport system to be efficient, safe, and reliable. However, there exist several sources of uncertainties in the transportation system both on demand and supply sides. With a constant growth in economic activities most urban transport networks currently operate at or beyond their...
I am curious to just how knowledgeable some of your authors are? I am referring to the June Out of the Box article on True Backyard Fun. I totally understand the fun of shooting an air rifle but, where is Mr. Galan's backyard? Every municipality I know of...
Barack Obama decided to opt out of public financing for the general election because he can raise three or four times more cash on his own. In true Obama fashion, he wrapped this self-interested, and entirely rational, decision in saccharine self-righteousness. He did it because nasty conservative 527s are about...
Readers with long memories may recall little Pavel Morozov, who, according to Soviet lore, denounced his father to the secret police in 1932, for anti-Party activities. Morozov Sr. was hustled off to a labor camp. His relatives took revenge by murdering Pavel, who thereupon became a Soviet martyr, commemorated with...
Lawsuits can be righteous, low, symbolic, pestiferous--many things. Recently, an outfit called the Southwestern Legal Foundation filed a complaint against Yahoo! Why the complaint? Because the gaily named company supplied information about human-rights and democracy activists to the Chinese government--whereupon said government did very bad things to said activists (e.g.,...
Smith & Nephew appoints Non-Executive Director10 July 2008Smith & Nephew plc (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN), the global medical technologybusiness, announces the appointment of an additional Non-ExecutiveDirector to the Board.Joseph C. Papa, aged 52, and based in Michigan is Chairman of PerrigoCompany. Perrigo is a leading global healthcare supplier that develops,manufactures...
mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: XDSL),and its subsidiary AlwaysReady, Inc., today announced that development oftheir Smart NanoBattery is expected to position the company for entry intothe sensor network market. The key feature of the technology that is beingexplored is the wireless activation capability, by which individual sensorsor the entire network could...
Targeted Genetics Corporation (NASDAQ: TGEN)announced today that the Department of Defense Amyotrophic LateralSclerosis Research Program of the Office of the Congressionally DirectedMedical Research Programs has recommended grant funding to TargetedGenetics of up to $2.4 million, to be applied towards preclinicaldevelopment of new therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS. Targeted Genetics...
Weather Underground, the nation's firstonline weather service, today announced the availability of a new onlineservice at www.wunderground.com that displays all active wildland fires andassociated smoke cover across the United States and Canada. People can view the fire map at www.wunderground.com/wundermap/fire .Alternatively, one can navigate to it from...
