Notwithstanding the motivations of active public and union pension funds, all shareholders have benefited from many corporate governance reforms pressed by these advocates.
Under the banner of securing the "common good," Mr. Clinton reflected on his eight years in office as a time of effective governance and pressed Democrats to fight back against Republican claims of moral superiority.
Little did I know". Upon receiving the award (a photograph of Einstein taken by the late Fred Stein, an acclaimed photographer whom the IRC helped flee Nazi Germany), Soros somberly declared that Syria was a "glaring failure of international governance" and pressed the IRC to take action.
Bulkeley, H. et al. Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2014).
Western governments and international aid donors can assist in this process by making most foreign aid contingent on key principles of good governance: a free press, an independent judiciary, and vigorous, independently led institutions to control corruption.
Montgomery, who also chairs the Wegener supervisory board, did not attend the EGM because of illness, but Governance for Owners pressed the company's board on his departure date.
Hoppe, R. The Governance of Problems (Policy Press, 2013).
Good governance and an independent press have long offered a foundation for U.S. democracy.
Representatives from several of these institutional investors then met with the management of Westinghouse to press for governance changes.
Corporate governance activists continue to press for regulations that would make it easier for shareholders to put their own board nominees on proxy ballots.
