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Fast Talk: GE's $500 Million Springboard Profile on: Dan Henson, who manages GE's sponsorship of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, overseeing approximately 150 different projects, from preparing power systems for the Games to lighting the Water Cube, the Olympic swimming center. |
The Motley Fool
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Are You Ignoring the World's Next Great Growth Story? Few other cities in China are home to so many architectural marvels, such a developed economy, and access to such a variety of imported goods as Beijing -- and that means great growth opportunities. |
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View from China: What Price Glory? The Beijing Summer Olympics will undoubtedly be a success -- but at what cost? |
Knowledge@Wharton
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Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
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Readers Respond: Is There an "Efficient Market" in CEO Compensation? Readers offer varying viewpoints and solutions on the topic of CEO compensation. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Bank Director
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Activist Capitalists Today, corporate governance analysts are legion. Here's what two key corporate governance experts say about nuances on corporate governance analysis. |
The Motley Fool
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Identifying Effective Management Finding shareholder-friendly management teams may be the most important aspect of investing. We look at some tools that can help us measure what management teams are doing and how well they're doing it. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2008
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Shareholders Step on the Gas Shareholders are indeed owners, and that should mean having a voice and advocating for change as needed. Maybe that's why corporate governance issues appear to be gaining momentum. |
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January 20, 2011
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Cool Your Jets, Boeing Fans The $19 billion in airplane sales to China? It's actually old news. |
Real Estate Portfolio
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Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
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The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris. |
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Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
U.S. Banker
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Boardroom Burdens Bank directors must be more hands-on than ever, exercising tighter control over management and setting strategic direction. Here are five issues that need attention now. |
The Motley Fool
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Proxy Season Damage Control Has Begun Companies scramble to reexamine compensation policies before shareholders strike back. |
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Governance Alpha It sounds nice: Making money by investing in companies guided by enlightened executives. But do companies that play nicely really outperform those companies who are controlled by selfish and greedy executives? |
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Governing REIT Compensation As recent well-publicized REIT proxy/management battles have demonstrated, REIT governance issues are no longer under the radar. In time, shareholder concerns (and any REIT vulnerabilities) relative to independent compensation decisions will also receive scrutiny. |
The Motley Fool
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Breakout Ideas: 10 Stocks Near Lows With Strong Corporate Governance Do you think these companies are in a position to overcome the trend and rise from their recent lows? |
Energize
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The Yin and Yang of China's Olympic Volunteers Volunteerism Beijing 2008 style is managed rigorously by the state and for the state. |
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Compensation Overkill Congress - and the public - needs to take a deep breath before making a big mistake. |
BusinessWeek
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An Olympic PR Challenge Activists upset by Beijing are turning up the heat on sponsors of the 2008 Olympic games. |
CFO
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Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2007
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The SEC May Shut You Up If you want to keep the right to influence your companies, let the SEC know. The SEC has recently proposed changing rules for shareholders -- in ways that don't seem to protect them at all. |
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Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages? |
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Insane CEO Pay As investors, it can often be sobering to take a hard look at management compensation information in a company's proxy materials. Should shareholders say enough's enough? |
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Beyond the Bailout Are limits on executive compensation for banks that accept federal funds just the first wave in a future sea of pay measures? |
The Motley Fool
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Will China Make Us Rich? Portfolio diversification works for a reason. |
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Comp & Circumstance Government involvement in executive compensation could spur unintended consequences, but wiser pay policies still may emerge. |
The Motley Fool
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China Faces a Major Wireless Test With the Beijing Olympics quickly approaching, the Chinese government is hoping that everyone will see and hear what China can do in mobile communications by promoting the launch of its homegrown third-generation wireless technology. |
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The New Middle Kingdom At the 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai, China will show its modernized face to an international audience. |
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Pillars of Good Governance REIT corporate governance is among the best in the United States and boards across the industry remain highly focused on corporate performance and strategy. |
Chemistry World
July 24, 2008
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HBS Working Knowledge
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The Compensation Game Do CEOs deserve "star" compensation? Or are they benefiting from a "market myth"? |
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Is China a Stock Goldmine? Olympics fever hits China - should your investments follow? |
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March 2010
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Is It Worth It? Hosting the Olympic Games and other mega sporting events is an honor many countries aspire to -- but why? |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2009
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3 Reasons to Be Scared of These Stocks There's tremendous potential upside in China, with many cheap stocks ready to explode in value, but, we can never emphasize enough, however, the dangers that lurk in the world's most populous country -- the nasty traits of the Chinese market that make us fear and loathe it. |
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Corporate Boards Should Focus on Performance, Not Conformance After the corporate governance revolution of the 1990s that led to a new era of accountability to shareholders, the Enron debacle has brought new attention to the role of corporate boards and governance... |
The Motley Fool
October 10, 2008
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Time for Major Surgery at GE? General Electric's earnings were a strange mix of weak and strong. On the one hand, there's the financial segment, which will probably continue to struggle. On the other, there are the stronger technology and energy units, along with NBC. |
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An Olympic Shutdown? Beijing's Olympic dreams may be a nightmare for U.S. companies. |
Chemistry World
June 13, 2008
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Olympic chemical restrictions worries industry The Chinese government's drive to restrict the movement and manufacture of chemicals ahead of the Beijing Olympics could hit the country's chemical industry, analysts have warned. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics The Olympic Games are normally a marketer's dream. Not so much this year, given widespread protests against the Chinese government. Here are the branding challenges posed by this year's games in Beijing. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2008
Tim Hanson |
The Biggest Economic Opportunity of the 21st Century Warren Buffett has said the 21st century will belong to China. Venture capitalist John Doerr has called cleantech "the biggest economic opportunity of this century." |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2007
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China's Dangerous Opportunity There appear to be fantastic opportunities for businesses and investors to help reverse the dire pollution situation in China, and to profit in the process. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Can This Factor Improve Your Returns? Too many shareholders forget one crucial element. Companies plagued by self-centered, short-sighted managers could easily foreshadow lousy investment results to come. |
The Motley Fool
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Alex Dumortier |
Will Obama Succeed Where Shareholders Have Failed? Delving beyond the headlines. |
