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Pressure Mounts for Financial Institutions to Address Climate Change

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When we talk about corporate climate-change offenders, the financial sector doesn’t come up very often. Banking doesn’t produce carbon emissions – at least, not more than any other office-based industry. However, that isn’t stopping global...

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SEC Paves the Way for More ESG Proposals

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In the perpetual battle between activist shareholders and corporations, the insurgents recently have scored some key victories. In the latest win for activists, the Securities and Exchange Commission is taking steps to make it easier to put...

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Welcome to the New World of Whistleblowing

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Corporate whistleblowers are some of Hollywood’s favorite underdogs. Spurred on by a sense of moral obligation, they risk their reputations, their careers and even their personal safety on the big screen to expose wrongdoing by billion-doll...

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Corporate Diversity Advances in Fits and Starts

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For champions of corporate diversity, progress can often look like two steps forward, one step back. Case in point: Among companies in the S&P 500 Index, women now comprise 30% of the members of their boards of directors. On one hand, t...

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Will the SEC Make an Example Out of Facebook?

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Facebook infamously began in the early 2000s as a dorm-room lark by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. Now nearly 20 years old, what was once a killer app stopped being cool years ago. It has become an online hub for a strange conf...

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