Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Nell Minow is an American film reviewer and writer who writes and speaks frequently on film, media, and corporate governance and investing. Ms. Minow was named one of the 20 most influential people in corporate governance by Directorship magazine in 2007. She was dubbed “the queen of good corporate governance” by BusinessWeek Online in 2003 and has received Lifetime Achievement awards from both the International Corporate Governance Network and Corporate Secretary Magazine...
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Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost.
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It's a headache. It's pure profit, and maybe that's why nobody wants to think about it.
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He runs off the cliff and then realizes there's nothing underneath him.
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I think the change is significant -- and troubling. For one thing, it is in addition to the other termination payments, which the first one was not. And it is larger, for no apparent reason. Are they expecting a change of control?
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It's thrilling because Disney has made a lot of progress but still has a lot to prove to shareholders, and this is tremendously enhancing to their credibility with shareholders.
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And we know what a risk factor that is. It produces the kinds of problems that we are seeing at AIG: failures of integrity and financial reporting.
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He is not the chairman of a public corporation. He doesn't create shareholder value. He is essentially a regulator, and he is running an unregulated monopoly in a way.
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You cannot be on the board of directors and also be doing investment banking work for the company. I don't care if he steps out of the room or not. You cannot be the umpire and the pitcher in the same game.
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Usually, $100,000 invested in the company is enough to make them pay attention.