Sentences with phrase «shareholder of a public corporation»

Not exact matches

Shareholder returns at family - controlled corporations significantly outperform those of widely held public companies, even though family - controlled boards tend to break governance rules, such as having a certain number of independent directors.

It has also increased its annual dividend to common shareholders for 35 consecutive years, the longest record of any public corporation in Canada.

In her prior role as the Director of Shareholder Activities at the Foundation, Laura successfully engaged public corporations on topics ranging from climate change to corporate governance.

In sum, the public corporation succeeded in large part because it provides a hierarchical decision - making structure well suited to the problem of operating a large business enterprise with numerous employees, managers, shareholders, creditors, and other inputs.

ISS tracked 1,042 shareholder proposals at public corporations during the 2003 proxy season, which gives us total corporate expenditures on shareholder proposals of $ 90,654,000.

And the owners of the company are — in the case of a public corporation — the shareholders.

The statement added that in the past ten years, Indorama - Nigeria has been a responsible corporate citizen, reputed for its excellent Public Private Partnership (PPP)-- sharing its wealth / dividend with shareholders including the Federal Government (through the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Bureau of Public Enterprises), Rivers State Government, and host communities and Nigerian employees.

Privatization of libraries, hospitals, prisons, and other basic services had long been hailed by those on the political right, but how could one persuade entire communities to hand over their children and their public schools to private sector corporations, some of which hoped to turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders?

There's the explosion of for - profit charter school companies that run what are supposed to be public schools that serve students and communities not out of state corporations and their shareholders.

My understanding as well is that public dividends received within a corporation can be «flowed through» to shareholders and taxed in the hands of the shareholder instead of the corporation.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

Leveraged buyouts (LBOs) create a special type of company that typically uses high - yield bonds to buy a public corporation from its shareholders, often for the benefit of a private investment group that may include senior managers.

Between 1981 and 1992 Mr. Foudy served as Executive Director of the Arizona Public Service Company Shareholder's Association, later the Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Shareholder's Association.

Simply put, they have to know it will sell, or they will LOSE money, and when it comes down to the bottom line, it's a board of shareholders that a public corporation has to answer to, not necessarily the die - hard fans.

As detailed in the most recent installment of our ongoing investigation into how the Exxon Mobil Corporation has characterized risks to its business operations associated with climate change in its annual 10 - K reports to shareholders, year after year, the company has alleged that one of the risks to its operations is the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a public policy to mitigate global climate change, but has failed to list climate change itself as a risk when communicating with its shareholders (See previous segments of our investigation here: Part One (1993 - 2000); Part Two (2000 - 2008); Part Three (A)(2009), Part Three (B)(2010), Part Three (C)(2011), and Part Three (D)(2012)-RRB-.

Professor Mohamed F. Khimji, the David Allgood Professor of Business Law at Queen's University, has won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant as principal investigator for the project Shareholder Democracy in Public Corporations — An Empirical and Economic Analysis.

I suspect that election by the diverse Bar of Ontario produces a more diverse group of Benchers than the average or even well - meaning shareholders of private corporations — and given how public the campaign is, we members have only ourselves to blame if we don't like the results.

It's trite to say that corporations act in the interests of their shareholders, not the public.

In - house counsel have duties to various entities: the corporation, including its board of directors and its shareholders; the corporation's other employees; third parties such as the public and others who rely on counsel's statements, and to regulatory bodies.

As the name suggests, public benefit corporations are corporations that expressly commit to provide a «public benefit», as specified in the articles of incorporation, and to «operate in a responsible and sustainable manner», as well as make money for shareholders.

The boards of directors of public benefit corporations must balance the financial interests of shareholders, «the best interests of those materially affected by the corporation's conduct» and the public benefit specified in the articles.

Ready Player One in not wrong to suggest that we should be skeptical of corporations like IOI, which wants to gain control of the OASIS in order to datamine its customers and bombard everyone's headsets with targeted advertisements (the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal is the latest reminder that Silicon Valley works for shareholders, not the public interest).

This has attracted a diverse shareholder base, including the likes of Africa's largest pension fund, the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), who currently holds 25.87 % of the company.

When one Public Corporation (ie GMC) who shareholders have valued based on the licensing of several brands to competing businesses are faced with the reality of today's internet dominated marketing environment, plays one brand against another, the outcome is not nice.