Investors who had faith in Green Mountain’s CEO Larry Blanford got burned on Thursday, as the stock shed nearly 48% of its value. After Blanford failed to deliver on his earlier forecast about the Keurig coffee machine maker’s sales, he told his analysts in a conference call Wednesday that he’s still trying to figure out [...]
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May 3, 2012 in Corporate Governance, Daily Viewpoint, GMI News
GMI Ratings Governance Issue | Moody’s Corp.
May 1, 2012 in Boards, CEO Pay, Corporate Governance, Daily Viewpoint, GMI News
Is McKinnell the Right Choice? Moody's Corp. deserves credit for recently splitting the roles of Raymond W. McDaniel, who had been its chairman and CEO since April 2005. But the New York ratings agency also elected Henry McKinnell as its new chairman, and he lacks the faultless past that one might have expected in the [...]
MGM Resorts a Real Crapshoot
March 22, 2012 in CEO Pay, Corporate Governance, ESG Ratings & Research, Executive Pay, GMI News, Shareholder Activism
By Greg Ruel – Research Associate MGM Resorts International (MGM) is being added to our Risk List due to concerns regarding the quality of its board and compensation policy, its accounting transparency, and its business ethics. Most notably, the company’s key partner in Macau, China is Hong Kong businesswoman Pansy Ho. MGM has maintained a [...]
March 12, 2012
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March 12, 2012: US Lagging in Boardroom Diversity
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March 12, 2012: Wynn-sanity: A Power Struggle at Macau Gambling Giant Wynn Resorts Puts Shareholder Value at Risk
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March 12, 2012: Those Bankruptcy Bonuses at MF Global are No Surprise
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March 12, 2012: 2012 Women on Boards Survey Finds Progress But Slow
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October 21, 2011 in GMI News
Richard A. Bennett, GMI’s Executive Chairman, has been appointed interim CEO of the company. Mr. Bennett served as President and CEO of The Corporate Library, which is now part of the GMI group of businesses, from 2006 to 2010. Since 2009, he has served on the Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network. [...]
One of the Top 25 Blogs in the Universe… well, on LexisNexis, anyway
October 12, 2011 in GMI News
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate As last year, The GMI Blog has been nominated to become one of LexisNexis’ Top 25 Business Law blogs. We easily made the Top 25 last year, thanks to our loyal, utterly wonderful and supportive readers. So where can we go from there? Only upward. So [...]
GMI crowds out the list for the NACD Directorship 100
September 20, 2011 in GMI News
By Paul Hodgson – CCO and Senior Research Associate The honorees for the NACD Directorship 100 in the category of governance professionals include not one, not two, but three people from GMI. Congratulations are in order. The three are, in alphabetical order, our chairman, Richard Bennett, our founder and director, Nell Minow, and our CEO, [...]
GMISound Bites
August 8, 2011 in GMI News
In a new series for the blog called GMISound Bites, we are collecting intelligent or amusing quotations from GMI experts that appeared during the week. First off is a series of real corkers from Director of Research and Risk Analytics, Kimberly Gladman. From What about those say-on-pay "no votes? By Adam Piore for Corporate Secretary [...]
Welcome to the GMI Blog!
July 18, 2011 in GMI News
Welcome to the new GMI Blog, where you will continue to find the latest and most in-depth analysis of ESG issues from our expert team of bloggers. Here's a rundown of what's new and different: Tidy category dropdown menu. Find blogs on topics that interest you quickly by using the Categories dropdown menu in the [...]
And then there were three…
December 7, 2010 in GMI News
Real fans of British prog rock band Genesis out there will know that that’s when Genesis went catastrophically downhill. Chart success regardless. Phil Collins is all very well, but you can’t lose Steve Hackett AND Peter Gabriel without fatally injuring a group’s talent base. With The Corporate Library, however, the direct opposite is the case. [...]
Leading Firms Unite to Create the Next Generation of Global Governance Ratings
December 2, 2010 in GMI News
The Corporate Library, GovernanceMetrics International (GMI) and Audit Integrity announced a merger today, creating the independent leader in global corporate governance ratings and research. The united firms redefine the corporate governance market by providing investors and other corporate stakeholders with the most impactful and comprehensive governance ratings and risk services available. The combined business will [...]
The Corporate Library and GovernanceMetrics International Agree To Merge
July 22, 2010 in GMI News
For more than ten years, The Corporate Library and GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), in separate but complementary paths, have led the market for independent corporate governance information and risk analysis. Today, I am excited to announce that these two pioneering enterprises have merged, filling a void in the investment and insurance markets for a global corporate [...]