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2022 Proxy Season Review: Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by June Hu, Melissa Sawyer, and Marc Treviño, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Thursday, August 25, 2022 Editor's Note: June Hu is an associate, and Melissa Sawyer and Marc Treviño are partners at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. We will also host our annual webinar in September to discuss 2022 proxy season developments.

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2022 Proxy Season Preview: Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by June Hu, Melissa Sawyer, and Marc Treviño, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Thursday, August 25, 2022 Editor's Note: June Hu is an associate, and Melissa Sawyer and Marc Treviño are partners at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. We will also host our annual webinar in September to discuss 2022 proxy season developments.

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2024 Top 250 Annual Incentive Plan Report

Harvard Corporate Governance

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our 2024 Annual Incentive Plan Report provides a comprehensive review of the annual incentive plans of the top 250 largest companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization. ESG trends are analyzed based on findings from the last 3 years, corresponding with our 2023 and 2022 Use of ESG in Incentive Plans Reports.

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Discretionary Investing by ‘Passive’ S&P 500 Funds

Harvard Corporate Governance

in the fourth quarter of 2022 alone. These deviations amount to over $60 billion in discretionary investment decisions, roughly equivalent to Target Corporation’s entire market capitalization.

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ESG Task Force Brings First Case

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Cydney Posner, Cooley LLP, on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 Editor's Note: Cydney S. The collapse killed 270 people, caused immeasurable environmental and social harm, and led to a loss of more than $4 billion in Vale’s market capitalization.” Posner is special counsel at Cooley LLP.

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5 Factors Impacting Activists’ Declining Success Rate

Harvard Corporate Governance

on Thursday, September 29, 2022 Editor's Note: Kurt Moeller is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting Inc. In the 2021 and 2022 proxy seasons, shareholder activists taking proxy contests all the way to a vote have won at least one board seat far less often than during the previous four years. This post is based on his FTI memorandum.

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.