tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-95757654678673164 2012-02-17T10:21:38-05:00 TypePad GMIBloghttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d0163018cd34e970d 2012-02-17T10:21:38-05:00 2012-02-17T10:25:02-05:00

By Paul Hodgson - CCO and Senior Research Associate Sweet Deal Compensation Analyst Ashley Kotzur found this WSJ article on the proposed package for Hostess Foods’ rescue CEO. Hostess fears that, without Mr. Driscoll, its plan to breathe new life into its struggling business and emerge from bankruptcy could be...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/hZ2JXni10lk" height="1" width="1"/>

Paul Hodgson http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/small-print-2.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d016301827473970d 2012-02-16T17:53:45-05:00 2012-02-17T08:22:58-05:00

By Greg Ruel- Research Associate AMR will not be filing a proxy or holding an annual meeting in 2012. Therefore, the company disclosed compensation policy and figures in its 2012 annual report, filed yesterday, laying out the compensation for CEO and Thomas W. Horton as well as other current and...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/se0dORLXfXM" height="1" width="1"/>

Gruel http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/stock-and-option-awards-are-valueless-for-executives-at-amr-but-what-about-the-pensions.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d0163017fa774970d 2012-02-16T13:06:13-05:00 2012-02-16T13:06:13-05:00

By Beth Young - Senior Research Associate Yahoo, its efforts to sell its Asian assets reportedly stalled, is facing another challenge: Hedge fund Third Point is making good on its promise to put up dissident candidates for the company’s board. In a February 14th 13-D filing (Third Point has not...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/TsXalOC8Xyc" height="1" width="1"/>

Paul Hodgson http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/yahoos-dissident-shareholder-woes.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d0167626c365e970b 2012-02-15T23:03:53-05:00 2012-02-15T23:03:53-05:00

My article in The New Republic explains how CEO pay spun out of control -- and how to fix it.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/6MiQo32m5AQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Nell Minow http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/my-article-on-ceo-pay-in-the-new-republics-income-inequality-issue.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d0168e74a224f970c 2012-02-13T14:54:32-05:00 2012-02-13T14:54:50-05:00

By Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Research Analyst Last week, Calstrs, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, (@CalSTRS) a major U.S. pension fund, said that Facebook Inc. should diversify the makeup of its all-male board and separate the chairman position from chief executive officer role. Although Facebook has received a lot of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/UmVYjt-qEuA" height="1" width="1"/>

Nflannery http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/facebooks-lack-of-board-diversity-draws-criticism.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d0167621bde69970b 2012-02-10T14:21:23-05:00 2012-02-10T14:23:01-05:00

By Nathaniel Flannery, Research Analyst Even though he was convicted of kidnapping and assault, the board at Hanwha Group, a Korean conglomerate that makes explosives and chemicals, did not ask its chairman, Kim Seung-youn to retire, a move that might have helped the company avoid damaging its brand. Now, prosecutors...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/AAdXDdFcc9g" height="1" width="1"/>

Nflannery http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/problems-at-hanwha-highlight-south-koreas-governance-problems.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d016301255cf4970d 2012-02-10T12:28:15-05:00 2012-02-10T12:28:15-05:00

By Paul Hodgson - CCO and Senior Research Associate Corporate Dollar Menu Thanks to Events Analyst Dovid Muyderman for both this February 6th 8-K from U.S. Steel, and for the headline. On January 31, 2012, U. S. Steel Serbia B.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation (U....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/2-mlDwGTILs" height="1" width="1"/>

Paul Hodgson http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/small-print-1.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d0167620cd818970b 2012-02-09T14:59:31-05:00 2012-02-09T15:03:21-05:00

By Kimberly Gladman, CFA, Ph.D. - Director of Research and Risk Analytics Yesterday, Diamond Foods’ stock plunged on the announcement that it would restate its financials for 2010 and 2011, a move that may reduce its earnings for those years by half and derail the company’s planned acquisition of Pringles...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/f2obFmOa94E" height="1" width="1"/>

Michelle Lamb http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/governance-at-diamond-foods-going-nuts.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d016761e3bfd0970b 2012-02-07T10:38:53-05:00 2012-02-07T10:38:53-05:00

From our very own Mark Magee - Events Team Leader and Cartoonist Extraordinaire. Quite simply the greatest novelist in the English language.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/nfs5MpZna3Y" height="1" width="1"/>

Paul Hodgson http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/for-charles.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a014e89348a07970d016300ee7d47970d 2012-02-07T10:35:42-05:00 2012-02-07T10:37:00-05:00

By Paul Hodgson - CCO and Senior Research Associate The AGR for Health Management Associates (HMA) fell well before any outward hint of trouble. During the period from September, 2009 through September, 2011, HMA’s AGR fell from 93 on a scale of 100 (“Conservative”) to 16 (“Aggressive”). Not only that,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GMIBlog/~4/_Mmfz8AYQUQ" height="1" width="1"/>

Paul Hodgson http://foundersforum.gmiratings.com/2012/02/health-management-associates-inc-litigation-risk-accounting-risk-equity-risk.html