Virtually every publicly traded corporation has an indemnification provision in its corporate articles requiring it pay the lawyers for its officers and directors who may be accused of a violation, and in most cases those costs must be advanced during the course of an investigation or prosecution.
This approach focuses specifically on university industry interactions, in which the connectivity between academic science and industrial research is captured and measured empirically in terms of (1) public private co-authored research articles, and (2) references ('citations') within corporate research articles to university research articles.
So, corporate America, this article is for you.
Communication of such messages is being made easier by the development of in-house corporate Intranets (see article).
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The charges are the first brought against executives under new legislation that penalises bosses who falsely certify the accuracy of company accounts.See article: Corporate malfeasanceWar in the airAirlines may be early war casualties.
France is keen on classic women's issues, she observes, such as equal pay and promotion at work, or women on corporate boards (see article), but less interested in the grim reality of polygamy on French soil.
They will be even less willing to take these, says Don Ullmann of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank, without an offsetting pick-up in commercial lending.Although there are some signs of this (see article), corporate lending is still tepid.
By coincidence, this week also saw the payment of fines totalling $308m by Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, two of America's biggest banks, to settle charges that they had helped to disguise the financial plight of Enron, the Texan energy-trader whose bankruptcy in December 2001 triggered the debate on corporate reform (see article).
The new Sarbanes-Oxley act will require many more bosses to certify regularly.See article: Corporate AmericaMembers of the Financial Services Forum, including some of Wall Street's biggest names, such as Goldman Sachs and AIG, joined a growing band that will treat stock options as expenses.
