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Countrywide, Bear Stearns: Failures in Governance: We've now seen two financial firms fail in the subprime mortgage mess--Countrywide Financial and Bear Stearns. What do they share in common? Spectacularly bad corporate governance. There's been a long-running debate among shareholder activists and corporate leaders whether "good governance" equals "good business," or merely consists of...; Tags: Finance, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Mortgages, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Governance, Financial, Shareholder, Capital Structures, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-03-25
Countrywide's Mozilo Tries To Pull a Fast One on Compensation: Countrywide Financial Chief Executive Officer Angelo Mozilo seems to have finally obtained some public relations advice--he's announcing that he'll voluntarily give up $37.5 million in severance and consulting pay in connection with Bank of America's takeover of his failed firm. He made this announcement the day before Countrywide reported $422 million...; Tags: Consulting, Compensation, Shareholder, Countrywide, Angelo Mozilo, Public Relations, Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Corporate Communications, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-01-29
Banks: Clawing Back CEO Compensation: Okay, let's get real. We've had a series of colossal failures--Chuck Prince at Citicorp, Stanley O'Neal at Merrill Lynch and Angelo Mozilo at Countrywide Financial. All three are losing their jobs or their companies, yet each is walking away with at least $50 million in golden parachutes. This...; Tags: Bank, Shareholder, Compensation, Board, Corporate Governance, Finance, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-01-15
Why Christopher Cox Did the Right Thing: Christopher Cox, chairman of the SEC, is taking some heat for a 3-1 decision last week that would prevent shareholders from placing their own candidates for a company's board of directors on that company's proxy ballot. But Cox did the right thing on the issue that is known as "shareholder...; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-05
Earth to Bush: Fix the SEC: President Bush is in the waning days of an administration that has underachieved expectations, to put it charitably. But there's still one thing he could get right—naming two of the right kind of Democrats to the Securities & Exchange Commission and thereby driving a stake into the heart of shareholder...; Tags: Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Cox, SEC, Board, Democrat, Shareholder, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-10-25