Fourth, our attention is deservedly on the "supply side" of corporate governance, the public companies.
Independent-minded investors can look into the inner workings of most of the public companies and decide for themselves which of them deserve their attention and investment money.
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This basket of the biggest public companies in the U.S. had spilled into negative territory earlier this month after it had retreated 7% from its late April peak.
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This office works closely with our Division review staff to monitor whether the documents public companies file with the SEC include disclosure of material information regarding global security risk-related issues.
And in the case of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BlackRock engaged not only BP, but all the other public companies involved in the costly disaster such as Halliburton.
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In fact, the agency has already expressed an interest in bringing more transparency to the private share offerings that have allowed Facebook and Twitter to balloon to the size of public companies without tapping the public markets.
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Were American policy makers to have the benefit of transparent financial statements prepared the way public companies must report their pension liabilities, they would see clearly the magnitude of the future borrowing that these liabilities imply.
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Only 3% of the 500 biggest public companies in the U.S. have female CEOs.
Growth slowed throughout the 1990s, even as the number of public companies and the number of securities issues swelled dramatically.
Their niche of auditing the thousands of public companies below the first rank is lucrative and does not demand a huge international network.
There could be no worthier cause but keep in mind that, in the case of public companies, the managers authorising those donations were giving other people's money, not their own.
And it counts any firm with over 25% foreign ownership as an outside buyer, forcing the government to track every trade in the shares of public companies near the limit.
The CEOs of the public holding companies did much better than their shareholders last year.
"While my daughter talks of good governance, she apparently ignores the cardinal rule of good governance that the boards of the two public companies, Viacom and CBS, should select my successor, " Redstone wrote.
Audit Analytics also notes that for the partial year 2010 on which their estimates of the trend are based, 2590 of the 2636 going concern qualifications were filed by non-accelerated filers, that is, the smallest public companies.
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For example, according to Parnell, approximately three-quarters of the 100 largest public companies in America provide the government with goods or services.
Fund managers themselves are stewards of other people's money in a way that is not dissimilar to the role played by the executives of public companies: to coin the golden rule of stock-market capitalism, turkeys rarely vote for Christmas.
Due to the fact that financial data is available for relatively few of the companies operating in terrorist-sponsoring states, the role being played by public companies in the viability of governments that sponsor terrorism is probably, if anything, even greater than indicated by this number.
But they have managed to kill the creation of new public companies in the U.S., cripple the venture capital business, and damage entrepreneurship.
And with the top ten public companies holding onto 17% of the U.S. market, he thinks there's plenty of room for continued growth.
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Given this extraordinary financial influence and the important role played by public companies in the economies of terrorist-sponsoring states 3, the Center for Security Policy has reached a key finding: America's 100 largest and most prominent pension systems have the power to help defeat terrorism.
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Pressed by the withdrawal of public companies whose share value and reputations were under withering attack by anti-apartheid activists, the government in Cape Town ultimately abandoned its racist policies and surrendered power.
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Sometimes knocked for her close ties to the companies Morgan took public, she certainly showed intense loyalty to the companies she supported.
As the companies mature, Allied Minds will profit if the companies sell or license products to bigger players, or if the companies go public.
The median EVA Momentum score for public companies in the U.S. over the last 20 years has been just 0.3%.
The culture and external affairs minister outlined five criteria in terms of what the public should expect of the companies: distribution, audiences, education and community involvement, the need to develop new talent and their international role.
To sell politicians on the benefits of allowing start-ups to grow into public companies, the task force pointed to research showing that when such firms go public, more than 90% of their job creation happens after the IPO.
Over the last month large public companies across industries have continued to climb the market.
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