2011 Media Coverage
Charles Elson, director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, has been quoted in the following:
| 12/28 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Christmas Came Early For Some Lawyers | |||
| 12/26 | 2011 | Reuters | BofA Mulls More Asset Sales to Boost Capital | |||
| 12/22 | 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Japanese Insurance Company Buying Delphi financial for 2.7 Billion in Cash | |||
| 12/21 | 2011 | Reuters | Fortress Investment Says CEO Mudd Takes Leave of Absence | |||
| 12/18 | 2011 | American Statesman | Central Health Board Member Being Paid for HMO Work | |||
| 12/14 | 2011 | Daily Beast | Zynga IPO Gives Founder Mark Pincus a Stock Class All His Own | |||
| 12/14 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Avon Surges on Plan to Replace Chief Jung Next Year as Top Role Seperated | |||
| 12/1 | 2011 | Bloomberg | AMR Insider Horton Brings Deal-Making History At AT&T to Airline CEO Role | |||
| 11/25 | 2011 | Canadian Business | The Problem With CEO Pay: It’s Set By A Small, Self Selected Group | |||
| 11/22 | 2011 | Dealbreaker | Netflix Will Sell You Unlimited Streaming for $7.99 a Month, Buy It Back at $15.98 | |||
| 11/21 | 2011 | New York Times | Rash To Some, Stock Buybacks Are On The Rise | |||
| 11/21 | 2011 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation | News Corp Is Bad News | |||
| 11/16 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Apple Adds Disney’s Bob Iger to Board, Names Levinson Chairman | |||
| 11/16 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Apple Names Levinson Chairman, Appoints Disney’s Iger to Board | |||
| 11/15 | 2011 | New York Times | Apple Appoints New Chairman and Elects Disney’s Chief to Board | |||
| 11/15 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Olympus Shares Climb | |||
| 11/14 | 2011 | Bottom Line MSNBC | Hunt Intensifies for Missing 600 Million | |||
| 11/11 | 2011 | San Francisco Gate | LinkedIn, Others Show Why Transparency is Needed | |||
| 11/10 | 2011 | UDaily | Governance Guidance | |||
| 11/9 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Penn State President Under Pressure to Quit Amid Scandal | |||
| 11/3 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Chesapeake Agrees to Pay Yokes | |||
| 11/1 | 2011 | Hindustan Times | US Exec Gets $100-mn Payoff, Loses Half Job | |||
| 10/31 | 2011 | Reuters | Bankruptcy Casts Doubt on Corzine’s Severance Deal | |||
| 10/31 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | A Very Rich Adieu for Nabors CEO | |||
| 10/31 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | A Public Problem: Private Markets Grapple with Tech IPO’s | |||
| 10/28 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Avon’s Jung Under Scruitiny as SEC Starts New Investigation | |||
| 10/27 | 2011 | Reuters | Exclusive: Records Raise Olympus Conflict of Interest Question | |||
| 10/26 | 2011 | Charlotte Observer | Goodrich Executives May See Big Payout in Merger | |||
| 10/25 | 2011 | LA Times | News Corp. Investors Signal No Confidence in Murdoch’s Sons | |||
| 10/25 | 2011 | The Guardian | James Murdoch a ‘Dead Man Walking’ Following Shareholder Vote | |||
| 10/21 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Job’s Threatened ‘Thermonuclear War’ On Google’s Android, AP Says | |||
| 10/20 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Investors In News Corp. Seek to Limit Murdoch’s Power | |||
| 10/20 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Murdoch Foes Ask For Changes They Can’t Force At News Corp. | |||
| 10/18 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Delaware Bankruptcy Capital Status May End With Proposed Law | |||
| 10/11 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | U.S. Banking Chiefs Must Come Clean On Their Risks | |||
| 10/10 | 2011 | Financial Times | Call For News Corp Vote Against Murdoch’s | |||
| 10/7 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Disney’s Iger Named Chairman, Will Step Down as CEO in 2015 | |||
| 10/7 | 2011 | Los Angeles Times | Disney CEO Iger Signs New Five-Year Contract | |||
| 10/7 | 2011 | Charlotte Observer | BoA’s Krawcheck, Price to Get Millions In Severance | |||
| 10/4 | 2011 | Fox Business | IAC Recruits Chelsea Clinton To It’s Board | |||
| 9/30 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Skyworks-AnalogicTech Deal May Test Delaware Arbitration Rules | |||
| 9/30 | 2011 | Charlotte Observer | Hedge Fund Drops Family Dollar Bid | |||
| 9/27 | 2011 | NPR | News Corp’s U.K. Actions Under Scrutiny in U.S. | |||
| 9/26 | 2011 | Reuters | Analysis- History Shows Iconic CEOs Tough Act to Follow | |||
| 9/23 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Whitman Proves Beanie Babies Help Her Lead Hewlett Packard | |||
| 9/22 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | H-P Board WeighING CEO Leo Apotheker Ouster | |||
| 9/19 | 2011 | Reuters Africa | 5-Twice Rejected, Icahn Wants All Clorox Board Seats | |||
| 9/16 | 2011 | San Francisco Gate | Company Directors Getting Older – Fewer Age Limits | |||
| 9/16 | 2011 | Sydney Morning Herald | Australian Follows ‘Mack The Knife’ At Morgan Stanley | |||
| 9/15 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Too Old for Murdoch Board Is Young Among Buffett’s Octogenarian Directors | |||
| 9/14 | 2011 | Huffington Post | Goldman Should Strip Blankfein Of Chairmanship, Pension Fund Says | |||
| 9/3 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | News Corp. Nominates Venture Capitalist James Breyer for Board | |||
| 8/29 | 2011 | The Star Online | Apple’s Board Set For Bigger Role Under New Regime | |||
| 8/25 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Apple Should Explain job’s New Role, Governance Experts Say | |||
| 8/20 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Penney Gives Ackman Leeway | |||
| 8/9 | 2011 | Adweek | Rupert Murdoch’s Daughter Elisabeth Will Not Be Appointed to News Corp. Board | |||
| 8/5 | 2011 | Directorship | SEC’s Proxy Access Missteps | |||
| 8/4 | 2011 | UDaily | Proxy Recommendations | |||
| 8/4 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Murdoch’s News Corp. Cleanup Effort Draws Fire Over Independence, Mandate | |||
| 8/1 | 2011 | Smart Money | Are Dual-Class Shares Bad For Investors? | |||
| 7/27 | 2011 | Media Matters | Experts: News Corp. Structure Led to Scale of Scandal; Board Backs Murdoch | |||
| 7/26 | 2011 | The Daily Beast | James Murdoch Testimony Flap Implicates News Corp. Board | |||
| 7/25 | 2011 | The Independent | News International Staff Told to Stop Deleting Emails | |||
| 7/25 | 2011 | Pensions & Investments | Shareholders’ Hands Tied By News Corp. Structure | |||
| 7/23 | 2011 | The Telegraph | Rupert Murdoch: Can He Survive A Coup? | |||
| 7/23 | 2011 | New York Times | Ex-Schools Chief Emerges as Unlikely Murdoch Ally | |||
| 7/20 | 2011 | Financial Times | Calpers Attacks News Corp. Share Structure | |||
| 7/20 | 2011 | Adweek | Could News Corp.’s Board Fire Rupert Murdoch? | |||
| 7/19 | 2011 | Fortune | The Trembling At News Corp. Has Only Begun | |||
| 7/19 | 2011 | Bloomberg | News Corp. Said to Consider Elevating Chase Carey to CEO | |||
| 7/19 | 2011 | BusinessDay | Directors Question Family Control | |||
| 7/18 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Murdoch Struggles to Control News Corp. As Scandal Escalates | |||
| 7/15 | 2011 | Reuters | Analysis: Hacking scandal turns up heat on News Corp board | |||
| 7/15 | 2011 | Corporate Counsel | Murdoch Family to Talk to Parliament, Face Internal Investigation | |||
| 7/14 | 2011 | Delaware News Journal | ||||
| 7/13 | 2011 | Financial Times | New Corp is all about the Family | |||
| 7/12 | 2011 | Financial Times | Crisis costs family in paper losses | |||
| 7/7 | 2011 | Fox Business | Few US Public Companies Failed New ‘Say On Pay’ Votes | |||
| 6/27 | 2011 | Chicago Business | Allstate misses the turn as rivals reinvent auto insurance | |||
| 6/24 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Southern Union Bid War May Pit Institutional Investors Against Executives | |||
| 6/23 | 2011 | MarketWatch | ISS: The proxy adviser with clout | |||
| 6/20 | 2011 | Charlotte Observer | CEO pay on the rise | |||
| 6/15 | 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle | Penney hires Apple retail head; shares rise 17.5% | |||
| 6/14 | 2011 | Agenda | Shareholder Anger on Chesapeake’s Pay Spills Over Into Director Votes | |||
| 6/14 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Groupon’s Leonsis Seen by Governance Experts as Having Potential Conflict | |||
| 6/9 | 2011 | Corporate Counsel | SEC Issues Second Wells Notice to LPHI, Naming CEO, CFO, and GC | |||
| 6/6 | 2011 | The Conference Board Blog | Q&A With Charles Elson — Bridging Board Gaps | |||
| 6/6 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Staying on Boards After Humble Exit | |||
| 6/3 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Wal-Mart Plans $15 Billion Buyback, May Boost Walton Stake | |||
| 6/2 | 2011 | Replica Omega News | Wells Fargo CFO Atkins Takes Unpaid Leave Will Ret | |||
| 5/31 | 2011 | Toledo Blade | Firms’ annual meetings flee town to avoid local protests | |||
| 5/31 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Yahoo’s Alipay Woes Seen as Governance Failure | |||
| 5/31 | 2011 | Richmond Times- Dispatch | Shareholder meetings hit the road | |||
| 5/30 | 2011 | Chicago Daily Herald | More companies taking shareholder meetings on the road | |||
| 5/28 | 2011 | USA Today | Some companies hit the road for annual meetings | |||
| 5/27 | 2011 | St. Louis Today | Nicklaus: Executive pay votes show few angry shareholders | |||
| 5/27 | 2011 | St. Petersburg Times | Top Tampa Bay CEOs raked in average of $5.4 million last year | |||
| 5/23 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Yahoo Faulted by Investors for Delayed Alipay Disclosure | |||
| 5/22 | 2011 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | THE ANNUAL FORTUNATE 50 | |||
| 5/18 | 2011 | Yahoo Finance | Citi awards CEO bonus plan worth nearly $23.4M | |||
| 5/15 | 2011 | Boston Globe | Firm did not reveal Romney gifts to board | |||
| 5/15 | 2011 | The Wichita Eagle | Court rules leaks to the media not protected | |||
| 5/14 | 2011 | Journal Sentinel Online | Top CEOs are private fliers | |||
| 5/13 | 2011 | The Baltimore Sun | Jos. A. Bank extends $825,000 consulting contract for former CEO | |||
| 5/12 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | The Morning Ledger: Galleon Verdict Shows Corporate Failures | |||
| 5/12 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Yahoo Says Alibaba Transferred Alipay Without Telling Board, Shareholders | |||
| 5/11 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Boeing Ruling on Whistleblower Firing May Discourage Leaks to News Media | |||
| 5/8 | 2011 | The Sacramento Bee | Audit finds concern about family ties in hiring for California teacher credentialing panel | |||
| 4/30 | 2011 | Los Angeles Times | David Sokol Scandal Dims Merriment of Berkshire Hathaway Stockholder Meeting | |||
| 4/28 | 2011 | Financial Times | Sokol ‘Glitch’ Casts Cloud Over Berkshire AGM | |||
| 4/26 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Delaware Judge Chandler Retires, Rajaratnam, Health Care In Court News | |||
| 4/25 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Delaware Judge Who Ruled on Disney, HP to Leave Bench | |||
| 4/25 | 2011 | Reuters | Special Report: Is Buffet’s Teflon Finally Wearing Off? | |||
| 4/21 | 2011 | Bloomberg | GM Pays Akerson $2.5 Million for 2010 After IPO, Profit | |||
| 4/20 | 2011 | EurekAlert! | Study Group Looks at the Future of Corporate Boards | |||
| 4/20 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Ad Hoc Panel Proposes Ways For Boards to Govern Better | |||
| 4/18 | 2011 | Accountancy Age | CFO Changes In US Banks Cause Investor Tension | |||
| 4/17 | 2011 | Financial Times | Fears Over CFO Changes on Wall St. | |||
| 4/17 | 2011 | Baltimore Sun | Shareholders Get Voice on Executive Pay | |||
| 4/16 | 2011 | Los Angeles Times | CBS Chief Leslie Moonves Gets $57.7 Million in Compensation | |||
| 4/16 | 2011 | Atlanta Business News | Top Execs Fly In Class of Their Own | |||
| 4/13 | 2011 | PR Log | The Board’s Role In Safegaurding Reputation | |||
| 4/12 | 2011 | UDaily | PepsiCo CEO Delivers Keynote at Anniversary Celebration | |||
| 4/12 | 2011 | Portland Business Journal | Icahn Makes His Mentor Case to ISS | |||
| 4/12 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | BofA Investiages Dividend Flap | |||
| 4/10 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Post-Crisis, Goldman Shareholders Press Proxy Proposals | |||
| 4/7 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Sokol Joins Brandon Winning Buffet’s Praise In Berkshire ‘Head Scratcher’ | |||
| 3/31 | 2011 | Reuters | Sokol Affair Casts Shadow On Buffett Style | |||
| 3/30 | 2011 | Washington Post | SEC Endorses Executive Pay Rule, Than Hands Off to Stock Exchanges | |||
| 3/26 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Director Stayed On After SEC Letter | |||
| 3/23 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Hewlett-Packard Shareholders Vote Against Executive Compensation Packages | |||
| 3/21 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Intel Courted H-P Executive | |||
| 3/21 | 2011 | PR Newswire | NACD Director Professionalism Course Tackles Pressing Proxy Season Issues | |||
| 3/14 | 2011 | Buffalo News Business | New Rules Sought at First Niagara | |||
| 3/11 | 2011 | FOX Business | Will Insider Charges Make CEOs More Tight Lipped? | |||
| 3/10 | 2011 | MarketWatch | H-P Criticized for CEO Role In Board Shake-up | |||
| 3/8 | 2011 | Compliance Week | This Proxy Season, Excluding Shareholder Proposals Gets Trickier | |||
| 3/6 | 2011 | The Guardian | Insider Trading: American Hedge Fund Billionaire Raj Rajaratnam Goes On Trial | |||
| 3/5 | 2011 | Boston Herald | Health-Care Honchos Cash In | |||
| 3/4 | 2011 | USA Today | Compensation For Corporate Directors Rises Sharply | |||
| 3/3 | 2011 | New York Times | For Boards, S.E.C. Keeps the Bar Low | |||
| 3/1 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Buffett’s 2008 Investment in Goldman Sachs Was Leaked by Gupta, SEC Says | |||
| 3/1 | 2011 | Globe and Mail | Former Goldman director charged with insider trading | |||
| 2/28 | 2011 | Forbes | Bump In J. Crew Deal? | |||
| 2/28 | 2011 | Bloomberg | J. Crew Said to Push Investors, Weigh Raised Bid to Win Vote | |||
| 2/28 | 2011 | MENAFN | Family Dollar fate in hands of 10 directors | |||
| 2/25 | 2011 | MarketWatch | SEC eyes faster disclosure for activist funds | |||
| 2/24 | 2011 | Corporate Board Member | ||||
| 2/24 | 2011 | Xinhua News | Health of Steve Jobs affects Apple Inc. and beyond | |||
| 2/23 | 2011 | Guardian | Apple beats off calls to reveal Steve Jobs succession plan | |||
| 2/22 | 2011 | LA Times | News Corp. to acquire Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group | |||
| 2/19 | 2011 | Financial Times | Top Citi staff in line to share $12m | |||
| 2/17 | 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Airgas hostile-takeover saga ends with court ruling | |||
| 2/16 | 2011 | UDaily | Weinberg Center awarded IRRC grant, establishes Edgar Woolard Fellowship Program | |||
| 2/16 | 2011 | Financial Times | US court upholds Airgas’s ‘poison pill’ | |||
| 2/16 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Air Products Drops Hostile Bid After Airgas Wins on Poison Pill | |||
| 2/15 | 2011 | Reuters | UPDATE 4-Air Products ends year-long fight for Airgas | |||
| 2/14 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Season of Shareholder Angst | |||
| 2/12 | 2011 | FDL | Welcome to Phase 2 | |||
| 2/11 | 2011 | Portland Business Journal | Mentor, Icahn fight turns nasty | |||
| 2/10 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Bill Ackman’s Soft Power | |||
| 2/9 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Wells Fargo CFO Atkins Takes Unpaid Leave, Set to Retire as Sloan Steps In | |||
| 2/9 | 2011 | Election 2010 | Brown’s Countdown, Day 31 | |||
| 2/8 | 2011 | Financial Post | U.S. takeover lawyers await decision in Airgas | |||
| 2/8 | 2011 | Portland Business Journal | Icahn takes to the airwaves | |||
| 2/8 | 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Delaware judge to decide on Airgas ‘poison pill’ | |||
| 2/8 | 2011 | Reuters | DEALTALK-With deal shaky, heat rises on Dynegy management | |||
| 2/7 | 2011 | American Public Media Marketp | lace New rules for banker bonuses | |||
| 2/7 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Nasdaq Confirms Breach in Network | |||
| 2/3 | 2011 | WCBD | Top National Executives participate in second annual Directors’ Institute | |||
| 1/31 | 2011 | International Business Times | Steve Jobs’ health is not a private matter | |||
| 1/28 | 2011 | Reuters | BofA banker bonuses likely down, cash portion up | |||
| 1/27 | 2011 | TMCnet | NACD Launches New eLearning Course to Help Professionals Advance Their Board Careers | |||
| 1/27 | 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle | Apple revenue in parts of Asia up 300% | |||
| 1/26 | 2011 | Houston Business Journal | New HP board members have ties to CEO | |||
| 1/26 | 2011 | Bloomberg | HP Reshapes Board With Directors Connected to CEO Apotheker | |||
| 1/25 | 2011 | LA Times | SEC gives shareholders a nonbinding vote on executive pay | |||
| 1/25 | 2011 | Reuters | Airgas defends poison pill in far-reaching case | |||
| 1/24 | 2011 | NPR | Taxpayers Paid Millions In Fannie, Freddie Legal Fees | |||
| 1/24 | 2011 | American Public Media Marketplace | Why U.S. corporations love Delaware | |||
| 1/23 | 2011 | TMCnet | 4 HP directors step down in wake of Hurd fiasco | |||
| 1/22 | 2011 | LA Times | Viacom execs rake in big pay | |||
| 1/21 | 2011 | CNET | Reporters’ Roundtable: When tech CEOs leave | |||
| 1/21 | 2011 | LA Times | 4 on HP board to step down | |||
| 1/20 | 2011 | Economist | The boss is unwell | |||
| 1/20 | 2011 | Bloomberg | Hurd Won’t Agree to Halt HP Suit Until He Sees Secret Documents | |||
| 1/20 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Apple Is Right on Jobs Disclosure, Former SEC Chair Levitt Says | |||
| 1/20 | 2011 | MarketWatch | Meg Whitman joins H-P board in shake-up | |||
| 1/19 | 2011 | AdWeek | Why Apple Keeps Covering Up Jobs’ Illness | |||
| 1/19 | 2011 | ABC | Apple gives minimal disclosure about Jobs’ health | |||
| 1/18 | 2011 | Bloomberg Businessweek | Apple May Not Need to Disclose Details of Jobs Medical Leave, Lawyers Say | |||
| 1/18 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Takeover War Turns Into a Trial Over ‘Poison Pill’ | |||
| 1/18 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Apple Chief to Take Leave | |||
| 1/17 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | How Much Privacy Does Steve Jobs Deserve? | |||
| 1/13 | 2011 | Bloomberg | J. Crew Board Ties to TPG, Drexler May Pose Buyout Conflicts | |||
| 1/11 | 2011 | Wall Street Journal | Goldman Opens Up to Mollify Its Critics | |||
| 1/11 | 2011 | IStockAnalyst | Rogers ready for his next role on civic stage | |||
| 1/11 | 2011 | United Press International | Analysis: Economic Outlook | |||
| 1/7 | 2011 | Corporate Counsel | What’s Behind That Facebook-Goldman Deal? |