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Doug Chia
May 23, 2023
Tesla's Annual Meeting Makes Elon Musk Look... Good
Tesla's Annual Shareholder Meeting and Cyber Roundup 2023 was so good that I almost forgot about Elon's bad side!
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Doug Chia
May 19, 2023
Guardians of the VSM Galaxy, Vol. 2
For the second consecutive year, Disney put in the effort to make its VSM exciting.
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Doug Chia
May 10, 2023
Virtual Shareholder Meetings: Don’t Ghost Me!
Projecting transparency at the annual meeting is a small but easy way to help you build trust.
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Doug Chia
May 5, 2023
Attending Pfizer’s Virtual Shareholder Meeting on an iPhone
I decided to attend Pfizer’s virtual annual meeting on my phone...
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Doug Chia
Feb 3, 2023
Virtual Shareholder Meeting as a Safety Measure?
What happened at Walgreens' annual meeting last week will make companies think hard before going back to in-person meetings.
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Doug Chia
Dec 15, 2022
The Shareholder Poet
In what may be an annual meeting first, a shareholder proponent recited an original poem to present their proposal.
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Doug Chia
Dec 8, 2021
VSM Proposals: Soup and Crackers
The virtual shareholder meeting related proposal votes are in, and the results are interesting.
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Doug Chia
Oct 4, 2021
Update on VSM-Related Proposals
The SEC staff has posted the letter it sent to Brinker International regarding The Humane Society's VSM shareholder proposal.
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Doug Chia
Sep 28, 2021
The Virtual Annual Meeting Shareholder Proposals!
The SEC staff appears to have flipped the script on shareholder proposals about virtual shareholder meetings.
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Doug Chia
Jul 24, 2021
"VSMs on 'Autopilot'… Is that Legal?" (from the OPTIMIZER)
A reaction to my previous post about pre-recorded virtual annual meetings from The Shareholder Service OPTIMIZER.
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Doug Chia
Jun 23, 2021
The Question I Asked at This Year's Virtual Shareholder Meetings
I tested the waters with the Q&A function at VSMs this year by submitting a question about PACs.
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Doug Chia
Jun 21, 2021
If An Annual Meeting Takes Place In the Woods…
How virtual can a virtual shareholder meeting be and still be called a meeting?
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Doug Chia
May 28, 2021
BlackRock's 2021 VSM: Pretty good for a non-event
There was nothing extraordinary about BlackRock's 2021 virtual shareholder meeting, but I kind of liked it.
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Doug Chia
Apr 21, 2021
Snapshots from the Carrier 2021 VSM
I attended the Carrier Global Corporation 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareowners on Monday, April 19 (vitual-only, audio-only).
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Doug Chia
Apr 13, 2021
When It's Your Turn to Speak, Here's What You Must Say
Stories about issuers’ placing strict substantive limits on presenting shareholder proposals at VSMs.
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Doug Chia
Mar 26, 2021
Virtual Annual Meetings: 2021 Pre-Season Special!
Here are reports from four VSMs I’ve attended to date: Visa, Apple, Disney, and AmerisourceBergen.
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Doug Chia
Dec 16, 2020
Microsoft Corporation 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting
Microsoft leveraged technology and put the work in to produce a superb VSM.
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Doug Chia
Nov 19, 2020
Notes from the Broadridge Financial Solutions 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting
Just as Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, Broadridge didn’t invent the VSM, but they did create and develop the platform that became...
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Doug Chia
Oct 19, 2020
Paper: "Back to the Future? Reclaiming Shareholder Democracy Through Virtual Annual Meetings"
I'm honored to see my blog posts make it into academic literature!
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Doug Chia
Oct 14, 2020
The Procter & Gamble Company 2020 (Virtual) Annual Meeting
P&G's first VSM was “No sweat.”
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