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Corporate GovernanceSecurities

Will the new Coca-Cola equity plan guidelines become the “classic” model or just “new Coke”?

by Cydney Posner Coca-Cola’s decision to scale back the use of its equity compensation plan and adopt “equity stewardship guidelines” has certainly received a lot of press – for an equity plan, that is. (See for example, these pieces, in the WSJ, here and here, thecorporatecounsel.net blog, Reuters , Bloomberg, […]

/ October 2, 2014
Corporate Governance

Efforts on the rise to enhance shareholder-director engagement

by Cydney Posner Earlier this year, two proposals were floated to enhance shareholder engagement with directors, one from a working group called the Shareholder-Director Exchange and the other from The Conference Board.  While it may now be almost de rigueur for management to engage with shareholders, engagement between shareholders and […]

/ August 8, 2014