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- Corporate Governance and Equity Prices
- In this paper, the incidence of 24 different provisions to build a "Governance Index" for about 1,500 firms are used and then it studies the relationship between this index and several forward-looking performance measures during the 1990s. It is found that a striking relationship between corporate governance and stock returns....
- White papers 2001-07-01
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- Relational Sues Sovereign on Removal of Directors; Demands Sovereign Honor Promised Shareholder Right; Sovereign's Assertions of Inadvertent Errors and Prior Failure to Disclose Defies Credulity
- SAN DIEGO -- Relational Investors LLC, the largest shareholder of Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: SOV), asked a Federal court to resolve promptly Sovereign's incredulous disavowal of numerous public statements promising shareholders the right to remove the Company's directors without cause by a majority vote. Relational will seek expedited court action...
- Research articles 2005-12-27
- BC Sugar: Corporation to Rescind the Company's Shareholder Right Plan
- VANCOUVER, British Columbia--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 18, 1997-- BC Sugar Refinery, Limited (TSE:BCS.A) announced today, following the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders where a resolution was passed to authorize the Corporation to rescind the Company's shareholder rights plan, that the Board of Directors has determined that the rights plan will be rescinded...
- Research articles 1997-02-18
- Hard To Treat Diseases, Incorporated Announces: Shareholder Right to File Investor Complaints With SEC
- Hard To Treat Diseases, Incorporated HTTD (OTC: HTDS) announces Shareholders have a right to file investor complaints with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
- Research articles 2006-02-07
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- INSEAD: Shareholder Value Maximization Misunderstood
- The Find: Many blame an excessive focus on maximizing shareholder value for the implosion on Wall Street, but one INSEAD professor argues that the real problem is the failure to fully understand exactly what shareholder value maximization means in the first place. The Source: Comments by Theo...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- AmeriPath Attempts to Restrict Shareholder Communications; Denies Shareholder's Right to Shareholder List
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 16, 2003 AmeriPath (Nasdaq:PATH) has denied the request of MMI Investments, which beneficially owns 4.5% of AmeriPath stock, for a shareholder list in order to communicate with fellow shareholders about MMI's disapproval of the $21.25 per share buy-out deal with Welsh Carson and...
- Research articles 2003-01-16
- Is Shareholder Value a Dumb Idea? Experts Debate
- The Find: Jack Welch made waves when he called shareholder value "the dumbest idea in the world;" now two eminent business professors go head to head over whether he was right. The Source: Henry Mintzberg, a professor of management at McGill University vs. Colin Mayer, dean of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Adaptec Annouces Amendment of Shareholder Rights Plan
- MILPITAS, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 13, 1997--The board of directors of Adaptec, Inc. today announced that it has approved amendments to its Shareholder Rights Plan to, among other things, provide for the issuance of Preferred Stock rather than Common Stock upon exercise of the rights, to increase the exercise price of the...
- Research articles 1997-01-13
- One Price Clothing Stores Inc. Board of Directors adopts Shareholder Rights Plan
- DUNCAN, S.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 4, 1994--One Price Clothing Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: ONPR) today announced that its Board of Directors adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan. Each shareholder of common stock as of Nov. 15, 1994 will automatically be entitled to one Right for each share of common stock held of record...
- Research articles 1994-11-04
- Welcome to the Shareholder Revolution
- Karl Marx would be spinning in his grave. The media are reporting excitedly about shareholder revolts against the executives. That means capitalists are revolting against the workers. That is the world turned upside down. Marx's idea was that the workers would revolt against exploitation by the evil...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- GREKA Energy Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 19, 1999-- GREKA Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: GRKA) today announced that its Board of Directors unanimously approved the Company's adoption of a shareholder rights plan in order to preserve the long-term value of the Company for Greka Energy's shareholders. Under the shareholder rights plan, one right...
- Research articles 1999-11-19
- New chief of do-good group wants SEC to do right. (Fast Track).
- Timothy H. Smith is a not so-new face in a fairly new crowd. While shareholder activism is just starting to come into vogue, he has been harping at corporate America to do the right thing for more than three decades. ...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Getting the right perception on shareholder value, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 07-25-2002 THE recent corporate scandals in the US and elsewhere have shown that some companies have the wrong perception about shareholder value. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC, shareholder value has been Business Times Malaysia ...
- Research articles 2002-07-25
- The price is not always right and markets can be wrong
- Irecently had the pleasure of reading Justin Fox's new book The Myth of the Rational Market . It offers an engaging history of the research that has come to be called the "efficient market hypothesis". It is similar in style to the classic by the late Peter Bernstein, Against...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Eyes on Shareholder Rules as Walker Sets Out Stall
- By Kirstin Ridley and Raji MenonLONDON (Reuters UK) - City of London grandee David Walker risks opening a Pandora's box if he turns shareholder rights into duties and requires investors to explain why they have sold shares as part of a review of bank pay and practices.Some experts argue that...
- News items 2009-11-20
- SEC Allows Shareholder Vote On Equator Principles Proposal
- Shareholders of Citi and Bank of America have a right to know the green-washing policies of the banks’ lending policies, the Securities and Exchange Commission says. “In rejecting the banks’ efforts to block shareholder proposals ...the SEC decided they have the right to know whether banks are walking the walk...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- CD Radio Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan
- WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--October 22, 1997--CD Radio Inc. (Nasdaq: CDRD) announced today that it has adopted a shareholder rights plan pursuant to which its Board of Directors has authorized and declared a dividend of one Preferred Stock Purchase Right for each share of the Company's Common Stock outstanding at the close of...
- Research articles 1997-10-22
- InterDigital adopts Shareholder Rights Plan
- KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 13, 1996--InterDigital Communications Corp. (ASE:IDC) (http//:www.interdigital.com) announced Friday that it has adopted, with the advice of Merrill Lynch, its investment banker, a Shareholder Rights Plan and has declared a distribution of one Right (a "Right") for each outstanding share of the company's Common Stock and...
- Research articles 1996-12-13
- Veeco Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan
- Business Editors PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 13, 2001 Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) today announced that it has adopted a shareholder rights plan. Under the terms of the Rights Plan, on March 30, 2001, one Right will be issued for each outstanding share of Common Stock. The Rights will...
- Research articles 2001-03-13
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