reports from corporate governance land

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.

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.

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...

By now, you've seen the Statement... so I'll skip right to my own thoughts.