Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Nell Minow is an American film reviewer and writer who writes and speaks frequently on film, media, and corporate governance and investing. Ms. Minow was named one of the 20 most influential people in corporate governance by Directorship magazine in 2007. She was dubbed “the queen of good corporate governance” by BusinessWeek Online in 2003 and has received Lifetime Achievement awards from both the International Corporate Governance Network and Corporate Secretary Magazine...
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Creating value ... The question is, 'Did they earn it?'
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The line between corporate governance and strategy is a fine one. Increasingly, strategy is a legitimate question for shareholders.
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And we know what a risk factor that is. It produces the kinds of problems that we are seeing at AIG: failures of integrity and financial reporting.
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You'd think they'd be bending over backwards to make sure that anybody they brought in at this point was squeaky clean.
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He runs off the cliff and then realizes there's nothing underneath him.
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Right now, executive pay is like a scavenger hunt. You have to get little pieces of data here and little pieces of data there.
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I was surprised. If they were just neglectful they would do a better job than this. It's beyond neglectful. It's a conflict of interest problem.
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Short term, it continues to be a terrible problem.
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There is really no justification to pay for any living or traveling expenses at that level, particularly now that he is in retirement.
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This report brings to light the role mutual funds play in enabling excessive compensation and helps investors determine which ones are committed to shareholder value and merit their business. The time is now for mutual funds to use their voting power in the interest of shareholders to tie executive pay to actual job performance.
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You cannot be on the board of directors and also be doing investment banking work for the company. I don't care if he steps out of the room or not. You cannot be the umpire and the pitcher in the same game.
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It's thrilling because Disney has made a lot of progress but still has a lot to prove to shareholders, and this is tremendously enhancing to their credibility with shareholders.
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It's, generally speaking, the result of some pressure from shareholders. We're seeing more and more of that, particularly at companies that have not kept faith with shareholders. It's very performance driven.
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It's a very serious concern that nobody's paying attention to.