reports from corporate governance land

I wasn't able to attend this morning's Annual Meeting of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, but I received a report from a friend who did.

As probably everyone already knows, the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is different than any other annual meeting you will find.

Management's decision to treat their directors like this calls into question how it views the role of the board.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be posting notes from a number of virtual annual meetings. Today, it was Wells Fargo & Company.

We haven't seen much sense of urgency to increase the numbers of Asian Americans in boardrooms. Is that about to change?

This type of leadership succession is actually fairly common, or at least not uncommon.

ProxyAnalytics and SoundboardGovernance have published a COVID19 Annual Meeting & SEC Disclosure Checklist & Best Practices Reference Guide.

Let's focus on curing Covid-19 and helping those most impacted today, and save curing the ills of corporate governance for later.

It's been really fun teaching at the Rutgers Law School with my friend and colleague Professor Doug Eakeley.

Oftentimes, it seems like appointing a former pol to the board is merely a way to rent some clout and borrow high-level contacts.

A fond farewell to Broc Romanek, pillar of the corporate securities and governance community.

What is the methodology of ESG fund managers and the firms in the ESG industry that give companies ESG ratings?

The conventional wisdom is WeWork's IPO went bust because of serious corporate governance concerns. I don't think that was it.

No big surprises, but here are a few areas I found interesting, as well as some suggestions for ISS to make the survey results more helpful.

What really needs to happen is throwing sunshine on the funds that heavily rely on PAFs. That's where some novel disclosure requirements...