There has been a steady improvement in the number of women directors in California’s top 400 public companies according to research by the UC Davis Graduate School of Management.
California is a major force within the US economy and and …
Read MoreAre executive pay peer group benchmarks the new credit ratings?
New research from the Investor Responsibility Research Centre Institute (IRRCi) suggests that over-dependence on peer group benchmarking for setting executive pay is the root cause of pay inflation in the …
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Optimising the Means and Ends of Good Governance
Manifest is proud to sponsor the 4th Cambridge International Regulation and Governance Conference on September 6th, at Queens College, Cambridge.
In a timely intervention given recent consultations at national and supra-national level …
Read MoreIt is often argued that poor governance structures prepared the ground for the financial crisis. The lack of shareholder engagement in particular is seen to have enabled banks to take on more and more risk. In response, the UK Financial …
Read MoreOne of the key benefits of an active network like the corporate governance community is that the ever increasing reading pile gets shared around. Jim McRitchie, the noted US corporate governance blogger has done all of us a timely …
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Life is full of strange coincidences. As the mobile phone rang on Sunday morning with a question from a journalist about Tony Ball turning down a proposed £20 million package to take the hot seat at …
Read MoreAny choral singer will be familiar with the concept: a choir singing an acapella section will often naturally go ‘flat and lose pitch’, only to have to painfully re-adjust pitch when the orchestra joins in. Conversely, if the orchestra were …
Read MoreThe quest for a single set of global governance standards is misguided and investors should stop using global governance standards based on US policy approaches. That’s the conclusion of Lucian Bebchuk and Assaf Hamdani in their latest paper: “The Elusive …
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