Marketing Minute Video with NP Strategy: Mastering Stakeholder Engagement
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Both investors and companies are maturing in how they view critical issues raised at the corporate ballot box. Even amid a proxy season that included “the priciest shareholder fight ever,” according to The Wall Street...more
Q&A with Yumi Narita, NYC Office of the Comptroller - In late May, Yumi Narita, Executive Director of Corporate Governance at the New York City Office of the Comptroller, spoke with Stephen Brown, Senior Advisor, KPMG Board...more
How you engage your stakeholders can make or break any strategy. NP Strategy Director Abigail Darlington shares key insights into what makes a great stakeholder engagement plan....more
With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles garnering increased attention in corporate circles in recent years, there has been an accompanying rise in demand for analytical products that evaluate companies’...more
The New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (“OMIG”) announced it will host an online engagement session on Nov. 30, 2023, to share feedback received during the April and May 2023 Provider Engagement Forums....more
It has been a few months since the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, a landmark case involving affirmative action. The court’s decision prohibits universities from...more
Following a tumultuous 2022 shareholder proposal no-action letter season, the 2023 season contained fewer surprises from the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission...more
While it might seem counterintuitive, as business and human rights continues a sprint toward a mandatory paradigm, voluntary multi-stakeholder initiatives (“MSIs”) are perhaps more important than ever before. MSIs provide...more
In the face of the rising popularity of stakeholderism, Professor Stephen Bainbridge has determined to "stand athwart the tracks of corporate governance and yell 'stop' as the stakeholder capitalism train pulls out of the...more
The past few years have seen “ESG” — referring to environmental, social, and governance factors that influence decision making — move from being a fringe shareholder proxy issue to a front-of-mind C-suite issue....more
Public company executives have long engaged with their shareholders, especially during proxy season, to share business strategy and address investor concerns. In recent years, public company directors have increasingly...more
In yesterday's post, I highlighted a new discussion paper arguing that Twitter's leaders through its stakeholders "under the bus" in favor of the interests of the stockholders. According to the authors, stakeholder...more
Elon Musk recently said he has a "super bad feeling" about the economy, pithily declaring what most financial commentators have been predicting in more technical terms....more
Most of the potential complications and outcomes outlined above were not considered by the US Congress and other WTO members, which previously considered only conventional businesses competing among themselves when drafting...more
Since at least the 1970s and the publication of Milton Friedman's "shareholder primacy" doctrine, throughout the hostile takeover business culture of the 1980s, and during the more recent linking of executive compensation to...more
Today, shareholders are increasingly demanding corporate accountability on a variety of issues, ranging from compensation and human capital management to governance and board diversity, among others. As a result, most...more
Around the world, the coronavirus pandemic has not only devastated public health, but exploded assumptions of competence and good intentions of government. Few could be optimistic of a swift reversal in circumstances. In this...more
The recently published “The Friedman Essay and the True Purpose of the Business Corporation” defends a view of stakeholder governance that reflects the following two basic flaws...more
Directors of most for-profit U.S. corporations have long considered the corporation’s relationships with customers, employees, suppliers and the communities in which they operate — sometimes referred to as “stakeholders” — in...more
Harvard Law School Professor Lucien Bebchuk is an eminent scholar of corporate governance with whom I often disagree. He, for example, favors SEC rules requiring public companies to disclose their political spending. See...more
In this publication ISS Special Counsel Pat McGurn discusses his views on lessons learned during economic crises over the past three decades and what that means for governance during and after the COVID-19 pandemic....more
This year companies have to report for the first time on how the directors have considered stakeholder interests and how the employee voice is reflected in the boardroom. This article examines the new reporting requirements...more
Changes May Create New Challenges for Public Companies, and Signal a Reduction of the SEC Staff’s Traditional Role As Arbiter Between Companies and Shareholders - On September 6, 2019, the SEC's Division of Corporation...more
The Background: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("the SEC") has announced that it may no longer review no-action letter requests relating to shareholder proposals submitted to companies under Rule 14a-8. The SEC...more
No business owner should operate in a vacuum. Much like sports, where the best athletes need an essential team to be successful, so, too, does a thriving business. This post will explore those internal and external team...more