Employee Engagement
Helping organizations to understand, reflect and meet the stakeholder interests of their workforces.
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11-12-02
Financial Planners Debate Corporate Governance Reform
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - In researching Vanguard’s Calvert Social Index fund, Patrick Christensen began a dialogue with the Vanguard Group regarding its policy on proxy voting. At issue was how Vanguard voted its proxy shares. Vanguard not only refused to publish its proxy vot...
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11-11-02
Domini Applauds SEC Mutual Fund Proxy Disclosure Rule
NEW YORK, NY - Domini Social Investments, manager of the Domini Social Equity Fund (NASDQ: DSEFX), sent a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) applauding its proposed rule issued September 19, 2002, mandating disclosure of proxy voting policies, pro...
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11-08-02
ICCR Panel Urges Corporate Leaders To Focus On Accountability, Disclosure, Board Independence
NEW YORK, New York - A recent symposium on corporate governance, presented by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), put a spotlight on abuses in corporate governance, while calling for changes that will make the process of building stakeholder value not o...
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10-30-02
Christian Brothers Urges Support for New Proxy-Voting Disclosure Rules
NEW YORK, New York - Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), a leading investment management firm serving the Catholic
institutional market, today released a copy of a comment letter it has forwarded to the Securities Exchange Commission ("SEC"), urging adoption...
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10-22-02
Gannett Board Approves Corporate Governance Measures
MCLEAN, Virginia - Gannett Co., Inc.'s (NYSE:GCI) board of directors today approved new Principles of Corporate Governance and new or revised charters for key board committees, including the audit and executive compensation committees.
Gannett's board chose to ad...
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10-18-02
'Enron Day' Marked By Major Corporate Governance Conference
NEW YORK, New York - The Institute of Internal Auditors and a blue-ribbon team of trade associations sponsored a highly-successful corporate governance summit conference in New York City earlier this week. The conference took place on October 16, exactly one year to the day ...
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10-17-02
Fortune 1000 Board Directors Reveal Gaps In Corporate Governance
NEW YORK, New York - Korn/Ferry International's 29th Annual Board of Directors Study shows that directors at Fortune 1000 companies are making long term progress in efforts to implement board practices for stronger corporate governance, but some significant gaps still remain...
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10-15-02
VanCity's Social Accountability Report Continues Longstanding Tradition of Corporate Governance Leadership
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Continuing its longstanding position as a leader in Canadian corporate transparency, Vancouver City Savings Credit Union (VanCity) has released its latest Accountability Report. Similar to a financial audit, the report offers an exhaustive, ext...
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10-01-02
NewCircle Communications Announces Corporate Governance Consulting Services
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire - NewCircle Communications (www.newcirclecom.com), a strategic communications and consulting firm focusing on corporate social responsibility, announced today that it has added corporate governance to its inventory of consulting services. The corpor...
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09-25-02
Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. -- ''EVS'' -- Announces Appointment of New Independent Directors to the Board of Directors
YOQNEAM, Israel - Elbit Vision Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq:EVSN) announced today the appointment of new independent directors to its Board of Directors.
At the annual meeting of the Company's shareholders on September 23, 2002, Mr. Meir Amit and Prof. Tsvi Piran were el...
