This was such a great panel of in-house practitioners – featuring Healthpeak Properties’ Carol Samaan, Lumen Technologies’ Michael Rouvina and Cognizant’s Aya Kiy-Morrocco – that I’ve decided to highlight their commentary in a series of blogs. This particular blog addresses…
As we go through the process of analyzing the five types of disclosure documents for the S&P 250 – applying our transparency criteria to them to determine how companies are doing overall and who is doing it the best ahead…
In this 30-page thought piece, Labrador discusses practice tips and ways to structure and present your code of conduct so that it is relevant and influential and, in turn, more effectively supports your compliance program and improves your overall messaging.…
Following up on my blog about four bewildering things about plain English: A few years back, a study from Labrador and BVA extolled the benefits of “plain language” – as compared to “ordinary” language – based on surveying real people.…
We’re in the process of slugging through the five types of disclosure documents for the S&P 250, applying our transparency criteria to them to determine how companies are doing overall and who is doing it the best ahead of the…
I just wrapped up reading Matthew Sekol’s “ESG Mindset: Business Resilience and Sustainable Growth.” (You can also buy the book on Amazon – the other link takes you to the publisher’s site. Support Indie publishers!)
It’s a “must read” for…
This is pretty wild stuff about leveraging universal proxy as reported in this note by Michael Levin of “The Activist Investor”: “Last week, HCC hosted its annual shareholders meeting, and we saw how this interesting and promising idea worked out…
Recently, ISS-Corporate Solutions issued a report – entitled “Gender Pay Equity: Assessing Corporate Transparency and Performance” – that offers analysis and a trove of data about gender pay equity and pay gap disclosure practices drawn from disclosures made by over…
Here is a list of 15 annual integrated reports from companies that are trying their best to be aligned – or inspired – with CSRD and ESRS, courtesy of Maria Tymtsias:
1. Metsä Group (Industry: Paper & Packaging)
2. H+H…
If you’re not scared of falling victim to one of the numerous scams out there in the digital world, then you haven’t been paying attention to the corporate compliance training that you’re forced to undertake every year. The scams are…
Recently, I talked to Michael Levin – of “The Activist Investor” fame – about his recent note entitled “Radical Board Transparency” that is an idea for a new type of shareholder engagement. If your role has been to serve as…
When I launched my first website back in 2001 – RealCorporateLawyer.com – there wasn’t a lot of content and anytime that I added content, I placed a shiny yellow “New!” icon next to that section on the home page. This…
It might well be the case that many of you reading this don’t have any input into the IR web page at your company (or for your clients). When I was in-house, drafting the disclosure documents filed with the SEC,…
Before I blog about how the plain English movement is sort of a forebear for the transparency movement, I thought I would share these four bewildering things about plain English:
The SEC’s Plain English Rulemaking Was Quasi-Controversial
These concepts were…
As I approach my first year anniversary serving in the role of a “Transparency Champion,” it’s a good time to reflect on how the mission is going to persuade others that transparent disclosure creates real value for businesses. That it’s…
