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Author Archives: Tarik Samman
State of Cyber Awareness in the Boardroom
Introduction Businesses are spending more money every year trying to defend their digital environment from attackers. In fact, as other areas of the business face tighter budgets this year, 48% of CEOs planned to increase investment in cybersecurity and data privacy, according to a survey from advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Meanwhile, cybersecurity remains the most challenging […]
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Tagged Board of Directors, CEOs, CISO, Cybersecurity
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Reducing the Risk of ‘Greenwashing’ Litigation and Defending Actions That Are Filed
Key Points As consumers place increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability, companies face not only the challenge of maintaining eco-friendly practices but also the threat of lawsuits alleging “greenwashing.” Plaintiffs’ attorneys, animal rights groups and state attorneys general have increasingly filed greenwashing consumer class actions. Preventive measures to fend off greenwashing suits include carefully reviewing and […]
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Tagged FTC, Greenwashing, litigation, Sustainability
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Expecting Corporate Prosociality
Expecting Corporate Prosociality The long-running corporate purpose debate often assumes stakeholder preferences for corporate prosociality are exogenous: Investors, employees, and consumers want corporations to be prosocial or they don’t. My paper, Expecting Corporate Prosociality, on SSRN and forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Studies, develops and empirically tests the idea that rhetoric from the debate […]
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Tagged Amazon, MTurk, Profitability, Prosociality
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What’s Next for Diversity Shareholder Proposals
Following the death of George Floyd and mass protests against racial inequity in 2020 culminating years of slowly building stakeholder pressure on various aspects of diversity, many companies expressed their commitment to racial justice and implemented or enhanced diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. Such programs included setting hiring and promotion goals for racial minorities, […]
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Tagged Big Three, Diversity, ESG, Shareholder proposals
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AI and the Role of the Board of Directors
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capacity to disrupt entire industries, with implications for corporate strategy and risk, stakeholder relationships, and compliance that require the attention of the board of directors. In 1950, Alan Turing, the father of computer science, famously asked, “Can machines think?” Since then, the application of computer science and algorithms to collect […]
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Tagged Artificial intelligence, Board of Directors, Corporate governance, R&D
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The DNA of 2023 U.S. Sustainability Reports
Since we published our last study on U.S. sustainability reports 12 months ago, political attacks on ESG have escalated heading into the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. As a result, companies are now facing critical questions on how to communicate their ESG strategies and initiatives, especially within annual sustainability reports that are now the norm for […]
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Tagged Board of Directors, CEOs, ESG, Sustainability
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Weekly Roundup: September 29-October 5, 2023
Startup Failure Posted by Elizabeth Pollman (University of Pennsylvania), on Friday, September 29, 2023 Tags: Bankruptcy, Exit, M&A, Startups Risk Management and the Board of Directors Posted by Martin Lipton, John Savarese, and Sarah K. Eddy, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, on Saturday, September 30, 2023 Tags: Board of Directors, Fiduciary duties, Risk management, SEC […]
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How to Navigate Equity Plan Proposals
Russell 3000 equity plan proposals are facing historically low shareholder support and higher failure rates in 2023. These headwinds likely reflect both increased shareholder and proxy advisor expectations in equity plan sizing and increased share usage pressure at companies in depressed markets. Companies will want to slightly adjust their playbook and engage with shareholders differently. […]
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Tagged Equity Plan, ISS, Proxy advisors, S&P 500
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