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Recent CommentaryMay 17, 2013 Congress Should Get The IRS Out Of The Business Of Regulating Political Speech
Source: Forbes
True, the agency bungled its scrutiny of conservative political groups seeking tax-exemptions. But should it even be deciding which political organizations should get favored tax treatment and which should not? Why is a tax... May 17, 2013 Stunner: Who Is Suddenly Telling Liberal Jackals To Attack Obama'Lewrockwell.com - After making mind-bending excuses for Obama's disastrous presidency, they've suddenly heard a supersonic whistle ... The Washington Post was used as the attack dog. Are we looking at something similar here' Has... May 14, 2013 Melting Ice Opens Fight Over Sea Routes for Arctic DebateSource: BloombergWhen 16th and 17th century European explorers sailed west in pursuit of a trade route to Asia, their search for a Northwest Passage was foiled by Arctic ice. Five hundred years later, melting icecaps have set off a global race to... May 14, 2013 Katz: This Dimon Is Forever
Source: The Street
...companies with unified chairman and CEO roles, the issue often requires more thought. For JPMorgan, the issue is ultimately one of textbook policy vs. pragmatic reality. Contrary to some commentary, the role of the chairman is... May 14, 2013 Sales Tax Talk and RealitySource: Floyd Norris, NY TimesThe nation’s brick-and-mortar retailers are promoting the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes based on where the product was being shipped. It passed the Senate last week, but may... May 13, 2013 Recovery in Germany Is Faster Than ElsewhereSource: Floyd Norris, NY TimesTHE recovery from the Great Recession has been slow, or even nonexistent, in most of the developed world. But not in Germany. In Germany, alone among the 27 members of the European Union, unemployment rates for both older and... May 10, 2013 2013 Ceres Conference - An Interview with Amy Hargroves, Director of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability at SprintJust Means - May 9, 2013 /3BL Media/ - Amy Hargroves, Director of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability at Sprint sat down for an interview at the 2013 Ceres Conference, which took place May 1 st and 2 nd in San... May 10, 2013 A National Economic Dogma May Have TermitesSource: Floyd Norris, NY TimesHomeownership is a good thing, for the individual and for society. Or so American governments, whether Republican or Democrat, have long believed. The benefits have been cited repeatedly in justifying the existence and expansion... May 9, 2013 The Problem With Corporate Governance at JPMorgan ChaseSource: NY TimesSome proponents of the current American version of corporate capitalism contend that if there is a problem with the way our largest companies are run, shareholders will take care of it – by putting pressure on directors,... May 9, 2013 Interior Secretary: Fracking Regulations Will Be Based on Best ScienceSource: Scientific AmericaWASHINGTON - The Obama administration's second attempt at writing regulations for hydraulic fracturing on public lands is not intended to appease either environmentalists or oil and gas drillers, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell... May 8, 2013 Will more science expertise fix the sustainability crisis?Source: SciDev,NetKnowledge and science for sustainable development are intimately interlinked. Not only did the very notion of sustainability emerge from the scientific community, a constant flow of scientific reports on burning topics ranging... May 8, 2013 The Chancellor’s LamentSource: Joe Nocera, NY TimesBy most measures, Holden Thorp’s five-year tenure as the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is coming to an end next month, was a roaring success. The university went from 19th to 9th in federal... May 6, 2013 Did You Bring Your Business Ethics to Work Today?Source: About.comWriting recently about developing a code of conduct or code of ethics, as it is sometimes called, I was struck by the importance of an organization having a code to guide employee behavior. May 6, 2013 Management, to the Barricades!Source: Gretchen Morgenson, NY TimesTHE annals of business history abound with stories of entrenched corporate executives building fortifications to maintain their plush status quo. But recent maneuvers by the board of the CommonWealth real estate investment trust... May 6, 2013 The Big Problem Is Long-Term UnemploymentSource: Floyd Norris, NY TimesThere are still 4.4 million workers who have been unemployed for at least six months. That is down from the peak of 6.7 million, but it is still very high. And that number does not include people who have given up looking for... May 5, 2013 EU urged not to take harsh steps against textile industryFinancial Express - Bangladesh urged the European ... on the day as tearful families stood by waiting for news of victims of the country's worst ever industrial accident. The EU, which gives preferential access to Bangladeshi... May 4, 2013 Get ready: Sustainability reporting becoming inevitable
Source: Mike Wallace, director, Global Reporting Initiative's Focal Point US
Part of the GRI Focal Point’s role in the U.S. is to connect the “sustainability dots” -- not just those dots related to the financial market’s interest in publicly traded companies and sustainability performance, but dots all... May 2, 2013 Review Essay: Citizens DisUnited
Source: James McRitchie,, CorpGov.net
Citizens DisUnited: Passive Investors, Drone CEOs, and the Corporate Capture of the American Dream both delights and informs as only Robert A.G. Monks can. No one else writes so well about topics like “How CEOs and the Business... May 1, 2013 Face-to-Face Management
Source: Robert R. McMillan (www.bobmcmillan.net), featured commentator
Can you imagine that the CEO of a company actually wants employees to come into the office once in a while, rather than just working from home? Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, made that declaration a few weeks ago, and that has brought...[more] May 1, 2013 EarthTalk: 'Greenwashing' is under siege by social responsibility proponentsSacramento Bee - DearEarthTalk: I hear the term "greenwashing" a lot these days but am still not sure exactly what it means. Can you enlighten' - Ruth Markell, Indianapolis, Ind. In essence, greenwashing involves falsely... May 1, 2013 How to untangle sustainability reporting strategy
Source: Greenbiz
The sustainability reporting profession is being deluged with new guidance about how to go about its job. The International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC) just published its “Consultation Draft” for a new integrated... April 28, 2013 Starving the BeastSource: Floyd Norris, NY TimesIn the 1950s, government spending fell quickly after the Korean War ended. In the second quarter of 1956, the total government gross domestic product was $91.4 billion, at an annual rate. That was 0.4 percent lower than the $91.8... April 25, 2013 Enlisting Investors
Source: Tim Quast, president, ModernNetworks IR LLC
We assume investors know how markets work. What if they don’t? Patrick Armstrong, new president of the Securities Traders Association of New York (STANY), told Traders Magazine yesterday that the buyside has been absent from the...[more] April 25, 2013 By 2023, a Changed World in EnergySource: NY TimesIf you could close your eyes for just a moment like Rip Van Winkle, and blink them open in 2023, you might see a very different energy world. Electric cars may be popular. Solar energy could be cheap enough that millions of... April 24, 2013 Accounting Board Picks Next ChairmanSource: Floyd Norris, NY TimesRussell G. Golden was named the chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board on Tuesday, taking up the debate over the convergence of global rules. Mr. Golden, a former partner at Deloitte & Touche, had been a member of... |
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