The SEC requires reporting companies to report material risks and impacts of climate change on their businesses. How are they doing? Not so well, according the the Government Accountability Office report late last month. The SEC does not get this … Continue reading
Stephen Honig
Okay, another baseball post. Spent five hours yesterday in 39 degree weather at Fenway Park for Red Sox opening day. Freezing cold, with a brisk wind. Looked like a football crowd, but Thursday was clear and bright, a break between … Continue reading
The recent projection by ESPN’s newsletter service gives the Red Sox, the team with baseball’s highest payroll (and likely second highest seat price) only a 7% chance of winning the World Series. (Yankees 9%; Astros and Indians 14% each, Dodgers … Continue reading
Digital data, its analysis and its use, is revolutionizing businesses of all types. According to an expert panel convened today by the New England Chapter of National Association of Corporate Directors, either you digitize or die. What is it? It … Continue reading
Different versions of Groucho Marx’ famous remark that he would not be a member of any club that would accept people such as himself, reprised by Woody Allen, came to mind when I read today the SEC’s quasi-absurd news release … Continue reading
Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who’s the fairest of them all? Starting this July 1, virtually all Massachusetts employers regardless of size must provide gender-based equal pay for equal work (regardless of disparity of titles) for almost everyone: full-time, part-time, … Continue reading
While women have achieved board membership equality in non-profit corporations (48% nationwide), racial and ethnic minorities have not moved the needle over the last twenty years, according to a presentation by Board Source (advisers to non-profits) held in Boston last … Continue reading
Professor David S. Wyman was a local guy, born in Weymouth and raised in Newton. He was educated around here, also, at BU and Harvard. He worked around here, at UMass. Dr. Wyman is remembered today not only through the … Continue reading
Last week’s news carried an SEC press release recounting charges filed against a Florida stock promoter accused of fraud on investors. Details were unremarkable, and for purposes of this post unnecessary. At the end of the release, as is typical, … Continue reading
SEC Guidance to companies has been revised to further emphasize need for more robust public company disclosure of cyber risks and costs, although many public companies now do have extensive if predictable disclosure sections. And, in fact, directors need to … Continue reading