Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a bill to expand protections for people who speak up about discrimination in the workplace.A new website arrived to offer tech workers […]
Shareholder Rights and Activism
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Back to news homeShareholder Democracy Is Getting Bigger Trial Runs
Well, that’s beginning to change. Several intriguing experiments are underway.One of the most interesting is a collaboration between an activist hedge fund, Engine No. 1, and the asset management platform […]
Tesla to Move Headquarters to Texas from California
Tesla will move its headquarters from California to Austin, Texas, where it is building a new factory, its chief executive, Elon Musk, said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on […]
Ousting Toshiba Chairman, Foreign Investors Score Breakthrough in Japan
Disagreements over the company’s management, including the handling of an accounting scandal, put Toshiba at odds with its new investors, some of whom pushed for change on its board, including […]
Huge Paydays for C.E.O.s, as Gap With Workers Widened
Shareholders opposing the compensation won a say-on-pay vote at the company, and a majority also withheld votes from a director on the board’s compensation committee. Under Paycom’s governance guidelines, the […]
Exxon Mobil Defeated by Activist Investor Engine No. 1
Wall Street has seen its share of strange bedfellows, but a recent alliance of investors that took on Exxon Mobil was unprecedented.Last week, an activist investor successfully waged a battle […]