The science of in vitro fertilization (IVF) has not advanced much in the last 20 years, but a small public company is trying to change all that. A presentation by the CFO of OvaScience, to a Thursday morning meeting of … Continue reading
Stephen Honig
Election years cause many CEOs to constrict their corporate plans. It happens every Presidential election year. It is most manifest among Republican CEOs. It is not necessarily the most benign development for the health of the business. This insight comes … Continue reading
No big surprises about what gets non-profits into trouble with the Massachusetts Attorney General: it is not a good idea to steal, or for the board to govern so laxly that others can steal. At Tuesday’s Boston breakfast panel presented by … Continue reading
About a half hour ago the SEC announced it has sued an agency of the State of Rhode Island and the firm of Wells Fargo, as well as several individuals, for fraud in the offering of $50M of bonds by … Continue reading
This morning, Mary Jo White (Chair of the SEC) addressed a meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies and checklisted certain areas of SEC activity. In reference to the issue of whether “finders and other intermediaries” … Continue reading
Mainland China’s historic reputation of riding rough-shod over intellectual property rights seems, at least as to matters of form, something of the past. In a presentation to the Boston Bar Association on February 18th, a team of intellectual property attorneys … Continue reading
How do boards of directors function in larger, privately-held companies? The answer is: pretty much like boards of directors in publicly-held companies, according to a panel of directors convened February 9th in Boston by the National Association of Corporate Directors-New … Continue reading
Citrix has grown to a $3 billion company driven by approximately fifty acquisitions over the past decade since it went public, enjoying a comfortable 14% CAGR. Why did their senior vice president tell the January 14th Boston breakfast meeting of … Continue reading
Moving into the proxy season, what are the hottest board topics this year? Disclosure of corporate political contributions, the impact of enhanced SEC disclosure requirements on executive compensation, heightened audit committee responsibility, and board responsiveness to socially motivated activist shareholders, … Continue reading
I generally avoid politics; people have their own views and do not need mine. I try to stick to things I know a little about: law and occasionally the Boston Red Sox. (I do better on predicting the former.) But … Continue reading