By Val Srinivas, Robert Lamm, and Tiffany Ramsay of The Deloitte Center for Financial Services and The Deloitte Center for Board Effectiveness. Digital transformation is high on the agenda for financial institutions’ boards of directors. However, what we have found...

Susan Eichen, Partner, Mercer’s Executive Law & Regulatory Group   With more scrutiny on a wide range of compensation practices, companies are under pressure to develop a fine-tuned approach going into proxy season. Mercer Partner Susan Eichen, who recently published...

Cannell Capital Wages “Vote No” Campaign for February 20 Shareholder Meeting By John Jannarone While none are up for election, the director candidates Carlo Cannell’s Cannell Capital suggested for the board of Lee Enterprises have strong backgrounds in precisely the...

Phil Mackintosh, Chief Economist, Nasdaq By John Jannarone A plan by the Securities and Exchange Commission to limit the use of fees and rebates at major exchanges may have unexpected results and even discourage companies from going public, according to...

Martin Lipton, Founding Partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz By John Jannarone It’s time to get over the idea that shareholder returns are a corporation’s only concern. That’s a central tenet of The New Paradigm, a progressive approach to...

Compensation Advisory Partners Associate Ryan Colucci and Founding Partner Melissa Burek By John Jannarone 100x? 1000x? The ratio of CEO compensation to median employee income can be a staggering figure – one that some companies feared would cause uproar among...

Deb DeHaas, vice chairman and national managing partner, Deloitte Center for Board Effectiveness and Linda Akutagawa, chair for the Alliance for Board Diversity and president and CEO, LEAP (Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics) By John Jannarone Boardroom diversity continues to...

Activist Shareholder Cruiser Capital Criticizes Ashland for Poor Governance and Misleading Statements By John Jannarone Cruiser Capital Advisors issued a letter to Ashland Global Holdings shareholders Monday, urging them to replace four board directors including the current chairman and CEO,...

Martyn Chapman, Head of Strategy at Nasdaq Governance Solutions By Martyn Chapman Governance professionals have witnessed first-hand the transformation of how boards communicate, with the increasing shift to “paperless” board meetings. Directors have turned away from printed documents in favor...

Cruiser Reiterates That Its Board Nominees Can Improve Company without Firing Staff Cruiser Capital Advisors says chemical manufacturer Ashland Global Holdings made a statement to its staff designed to confuse them about the goals of the activist investor. “[W]e are...