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Amid New Disclosure Rules, Scrutiny of CEO Pay Intensifies

Tightened shoelaces

A year ago, Microsoft instituted headline-grabbing measures to lift employee pay as inflation spiked and labor markets tightened. Compensation at the tech giant is now returning to earth, with CEO Satya Nadella announcing last week that ful...

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First Inspections Find Massive Holes in Chinese Audits

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Regulators have released the results of their first inspections of audits of U.S.-listed Chinese companies, and they’re not pretty. Analyses revealed “unacceptable deficiencies” in audits performed by KPMG’s Chinese arm and PricewaterhouseC...

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Companies Learning to Fear Online Rumor Mill

Four kindergarteners whispering gossip

The music world was saddened to learn earlier this month that folk-pop pioneer Gordon Lightfoot had died at the age of 84. However, fans had practice mourning the loss of the Canadian crooner. In 2010, a hoax began circulating on the intern...

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New Intelligize Report Documents M&A Decline in 2022

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Corporate mergers and acquisitions fell off dramatically in 2022, and activity doesn’t appear to be picking up anytime soon. That’s the key takeaway from The Intelligize M&A Report, a new study published today on dealmaking activity in...

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Earnings Call Adds Farcical Element to First Republic’s Implosion

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In the annals of disastrous corporate earnings calls, First Republic Bank on April 24 offered up a whopper. It was short, lasting about 12 minutes. You could call it sweet, too – if you were an executive trying to avoid talking about the be...

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