Before the late-2001 financial implosion at Enron " Fortune's 7th largest of the famed 500 " resulted literally in the disappearance of that Houston-based corporation, and before the largest corporate bankruptcy filing in history " WorldCom in 2002 " few people in the United States regularly used the term "corporate governance."
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News & Updates
By: Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, D.C., July 22, 2008 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company and a former executive in an accounting fraud scheme that ultimately cost the company more than $437 million...
By: Business Wire
Citi's Board of Directors announced today the rotation of committee chairs for its Nominations and Governance, Personnel and Compensation, and Audit and Risk Management committees. The Board also made several other committee...
By: U.S. Newswire
LOS ANGELES, July 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Members of the United Steelworkers (USW), labor and community activists demonstrated in front of Occidental Petroleum headquarters today in support of a people's tribunal in Bogota,...
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Research & Insights
By: Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School
Companies that cut health care costs without improving the overall value of care eventually pay a price in terms of employee absenteeism and chronic ailments. According to Harvard University professor and strategy expert Michael...
By: Editor, Global Investment Watch
This is the first in a series of posts in which we discuss business risk around the world. Our focus is on those countries that we have identified as having the greatest human rights, governance and economic problems. From this,...
By: Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School
The movement of business activity from developed economies to developing economies—commonly called offshoring—has become the focus of heated debates. Behind these debates lies a pivotal question of scale: How much business...
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Commentary & Opinion
By: Investor's Business Daily
MICHAEL MINK
7 Every business owner wants to reduce expenses, and cutting utility consumption is a great place to start. The key is to be efficient with energy usage. Here's how:
By: Los Angeles Times
Tom Petruno, Times Staff Writer
Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Ken Lewis has been saying for months that Wall Street was too negative about the bank's prospects. He backed that up with some hard data Monday.
The company beat analysts' second-quarter...
By: Canadian Business
A.W.
Executives grapple with all kinds of unknown variables inside their businesses: component costs, sales demands, future revenues. Forecasting them is as much art as it is science, and prone to errors. HP Labs in Palo Alto,...
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