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		<title>Do eBusiness Strategies Threaten Human Rights?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are human rights threatened by online business activities? The short answer is yes. Yahoo and Google's missteps in China, retailer and bank data thefts by online criminals, U.S. telecoms data sharing with the NSA are all examples business responses to external factors contributing to this risk.]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Looks at the Proxy Plumbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a "Concept Release on the U.S. Proxy System." The Release followed an earlier public hearing in which the Commissioners, led by Chairwoman Mary Shapiro, spoke of the need to possibly modify a voting system that has remained largely untouched for more than 30 years.]]></description>
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		<title>I am Predicting the Future . . . Maybe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve never been one to let the paint dry on something before playing with it and today is no exception. The object of my attention today is the Financial Reform bill passed by the Senate yesterday. What has me picking at the corners of this freshly painted piece of legislation are three provisions addressing corporate governance reform: Proxy Access, majority voting standards for uncontested director elections and Say-on-Pay.]]></description>
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		<title>Massey Energy Director Elections: A Landslide or a Mudslide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 12:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Massey Energy spokesman who announced that its three directors standing for election had won by a landslide reminds me of that retort when I read the announcement. Directors Gabrys, Moore and Phillips won their respective reelections by votes of 55.36%, 55.09% and 57.83&#038; respectively.

A landslide? Surely Massey officials jest.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Say on Pay Doesn&#039;t Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 23:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of posts on Race to the Bottom this week has made much about the likely prospect of "Say on Pay" becoming the law of the land if the Dodd bill addressing financial reform passes in the coming weeks, which it is likely to do. However, the practical effect of this provision of the Dodd bill on executive pay seems negligible.]]></description>
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