The Verizon shareholder vote that for the "say on pay" too close to call and the stakes are high.A vote for the proposal is likely to boost the efforts of Democrats in Congress to pass a...

The gender gap in pay is highlighted by Cathy Arnst in her BusinessWeek blog. "One year out of college, women working full time earn 80% percent of what men earn. Ten years later, women earn 69%...

IT governance disasters are everywhere. IT projects run off the rails, a bank's ATMs might be taken out of service because of early release software obtained from a very pushy vendor, benefit...

In the lead-up to AMD's anti-trust case against Intel, the two firms are at it hammer and tongs, according to this news report.Lawyers tell me much of this case might well come down to emails...

Big four accounting firm Ernst & young has been accused of signing off on audits without putting together the evidence to support its opinion.A Public Company Accounting Oversight Board report...

At the end of last year, we had the Hank Paulson-backed Interim Report of the Committee for Capital Markets Regulation recommending watering down Sarbanes-Oxley. I looked at that here.Then earlier...

The story about the resignation of BP chief executive Lord Browne has rattled the business world.Lord Browne is not the first, and no doubt he won't be the last person destroyed by the British...

This year, we've seen Siemens being investigated for graft and corruption and Chiquita Brands getting fined $25 million slinging cash to paramilitaries in Colombia.And we're only four months...

Last year, I looked at the rise of the universal owner. These are the institutions and pension funds that have holdings across the entire economy. Because their holdings encompass most sectors,...