Inside Investor Relations (IR) had an important article on July 30th, On the Way to the Investor Forum that raised the question: do companies really want to encourage their shareholders to chat about them in online forums? Wouldn’t it create a lot of work for investor relations officers (IROs) “who are responsible for monitoring these online […]
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Corporate Directors Forum 2012 Part 7: Laster Inspires Multi-forum Nightmare – Small Claims Shareowner Flash Mobs
James McRitchie, 02/09/2012 ,
These are some relatively quick notes that I’m sharing from the Corporate Directors Forum 2012, held at the University of San Diego, January 22-24, 2012. This post diverges to a flight of fancy inspired by a problem raised by judge J. Travis Laster at the Forum… a flight of fancy that borders on nightmare. In part 8 I promise […]
Corporate Directors Forum: San Diego 1/22-24
James McRitchie, 01/16/2012 ,
Last chance to sign up for the Corporate Directors Forum, the major annual West Coast event for informed directors and for those who work with boards. See my coverage of 2010 and 2009 Forums. The venue is excellent, coming close to a living room conversation with panelists and there are plenty of opportunities for face-to-face dialogue with a rather small […]
Diehr Elected: Another Candidate Forum Planned
James McRitchie, 10/29/2010 ,
George Diehr has been officially re-elected to the board of administration of CalPERS, as the state elected member. Diehr received 77.5% of the votes; Inderjit Kallirai received 22.4%. Only 28,373 votes were cast by state and Cal State University employees out of about 340,000 eligible voters. We tried to boost interest and voting by holding […]
Video Friday
James McRitchie, 09/17/2010 ,
Through PERSWatch.net, I had the distinct pleasure of sponsoring a second CalPERS Candidate Forum (the first was last year), thanks to co-sponsorship by the Sacramento Central Labor Council, facilitation by the League of Women Voters of Sacramento County, use of the CalSTRS Boardroom, video by CalPERS and cooperation from 2010 State Board Election candidate Inderjit […]
June 2008
James McRitchie, 06/30/2008 ,