As the role of the CEO changes in 21st Century corporations, the mission of investor relations and corporate communications also evolves. These staff functions often support the chief executive in achieving success – or fall short along with the boss. We ought to take note of subtle and not-so-subtle shifts in the corner office. Cliff [...]
The Harvard Business Review offers a provocative thought in its April 2010 issue: According to two professors at overseas universities (which may be relevant), shareholders are not the owners of corporations – and boards of directors shouldn’t feel so compelled to make decisions in the shareholders’ interest. No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Day joke [...]
September 29, 2009 – 10:47 pm
All eyes are on Washington this fall, as the country watches hope and change take hold through new laws and regulations. When NIRI President and CEO Jeff Morgan briefed a group of investor relations people and corporate lawyers in Kansas City on changes coming our way from DC, “scary” was a word that kept recurring.
“There [...]
September 11, 2009 – 8:10 am
Warren Buffett has been quoted as saying that his ideal holding period for a security is “forever”. While Buffett has exhibited long-term perseverance with some of his large cap holdings like Johnson and Johnson and Coca-Cola, he’s actually proved to be quite the trader recently with some options plays and short-term funding of the troubled [...]
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August 17, 2009 – 10:06 pm
There’s a gap in many corporations – and among investor relations people – between recognizing the growing influence of social media (on one hand) and hesitating (on the other) to engage proactively to support company reputations.
In a guest post today on the “Full Disclosure” Big Fat Finance blog, Sharon Allen, Chairman of Deloitte LLP, talks [...]
Corporate governance “reforms” taking shape in Washington, while aiming to fix the causes of the financial crisis, may in fact add to the problems.
In a memo to clients today, “Corporate Governance in Crisis Times,” the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz says governance failures of recent years stem from “pressure for short-term [...]
Harvey Pitt, who was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission early in the Bush Administration, said Tuesday on a panel at the National Investor Relations Institute 2009 Annual Conference in South Florida:
Sarbanes Oxley was just the tip of the iceberg. We are federalizing the law of corporations. Companies that don’t get that are going to be [...]
Public companies will face tougher laws and increasing regulatory scrutiny from Washington in the coming year, warns Jeff Morgan, president and CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI).
In a panel on advocacy at the NIRI 2009 Annual Conference today, Morgan said the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing three priorities for 2009:
Enforcement of existing [...]
Wondering what new wave of regulation is coming our way? Chairman Mary Schapiro of the Securities and Exchange Commission today offered an outline in a speech to the Council of Institutional Investors.
Schapiro’s agenda for the SEC in 2009 includes proposals for new disclosure requirements, proxy and compensation changes, and other ideas that investor relations teams will [...]
February 26, 2009 – 3:48 pm
The rummage sale level of stock prices has produced an uptick in hostile takeover activity - and in the fear of unwanted suitors - according to the March 2009 issue of Mergers & Acquisitions magazine. As might be expected, there’s a step-up in defensive play among CEOs, boards and investor relations people:
Until last year, the [...]
