New Orleans Walmart annual board meetings are legendary dog-and-pony shows with literally thousands traipsing to Bentonville for a Roman circus of entertainment and company spectacle. This meeting next month may have a sharper edge that not even a packed room of handpicked “associates” can stifle. It will be impossible for the board to ignore shareholders …
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Are Walmart Executives Being Let Off the Hook Already?
New Orleans $24 million in bribes is not a onetime thing, a rounding error, or a mistake in judgment. It is evidence of company policy and a corporate culture. Walmart has proven that it is trying to buy its way into the Mexican marketplace one bribe at a time, many stores at a time. James Stewart, …
Stockholder Spring: Finally Some Stockholder Justice for Corporate Bad Behavior
New Orleans Corporate governance and stockholder voting and input are largely boardroom jokes and swallows of hypocritical placebos used to dupe the “biscuit cookers,” what’s left of small investors, and the general public, all of which makes it nice to see some real life examples of sleeping giants stirring to action and delivering some stockholder …