We can ask, in fact, as shareholders, we can vote, that BP become a Benefit Corporation.
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In bankruptcy proceedings, unsecured creditors such as shareholders and employees are last in line.
And as shareholders and future pensioners, they stand to gain from a more efficient use of global capital.
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Goldman's investment in ICBC, which was one of the first Chinese lenders to accept foreign investors as shareholders, has been lucrative.
Both signed into law this spring legislation creating a new class of corporations accountable to serve society as well as shareholders.
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Companies that have grown under a strong boss often lose their way when he departs, as shareholders in General Electric can attest.
As a result, workers, as well as shareholders and other owners of capital, would benefit from any cut in the corporate tax.
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It was a good payday for the lawyers if not their clients as shareholders won important new disclosure guarantees but no money.
As shareholders push the Bank into new areas of global public goods , like spurring clean energy technology, how will the organization contribute?
The shortcut to asset allocation is to buy so-called target-date funds, which gradually turn to a more-conservative mix of assets as shareholders approach retirement.
Desert Artisans is one of 17 companies that collectively count some 15, 000 rural artisans as shareholders and form the backbone of Fabindia's supply chain.
It's a milestone worth noting in the hard slog that is - we all hope, as shareholders - the recovery of Royal Bank of Scotland.
Holding shares in an acquisition target provides the most upside, as shareholders of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan ( POT) and 3PAR ( PAR) can attest.
Then See's manufacturing manager Steve Powell got Buffett to autograph his white uniform coat, demonstrating that employees are nearly as excited about meeting Buffett as shareholders.
The record number of dollars spent this election is a boon for the advertising industry, but raises some serious questions that we as shareholders and citizens need to ponder.
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Insurers claim that, as shareholders stumped up some money a while back to capitalise funds and guarantee those that went bad, they are due much of the disputed capital.
It takes several years of people filing their tax returns to finally come to the realization that the government is getting almost as much from the profits of such companies as shareholders are.
Mr O'Reilly Jr claimed that if if the project could be successfully developed to bring oil ashore there would be benefits for taxpayers as well as shareholders in the form of tax, employment and "security of supply".
Notably absent from the list were some of the highest-profile names attached to the bank, such as shareholders Mahmoud Karzai, one of the Afghan president's brothers, and Hassan Fahim, a brother of the country's first Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim.
While SNS Reaal has been trying to direct its own trajectory, an attempt to unload its property loans into a so-called bad bank, with other Dutch banks as shareholders, was shot down by the European Commission earlier this month because of competition concerns.
If we as taxpayers are going to assume the risk as stakeholders when bankers make bad decisions, we should reap the profits as shareholders when those banks are profitable again, and use that money to pay down the national debt, cut our taxes and get a solid return on our investment.
The company counts Walmart, Baidu (BIDU) and Russian investment firm Digital Sky as minority shareholders.
Mr Kann is being taken to task by his own managers as well as his shareholders.
Mr Geronzi talks of attracting a large insurer and an international bank as major shareholders.
As for shareholders, Altium's Brown says there is nothing left to pick over.
Short of immortality for Irwin Jacobs, Paul is as close as Qualcomm shareholders can get to having Irwin in the corner office.
Last year, Lloyds had pushed through the deal - with government support - even as certain shareholders questioned the value of the deal.
So a bank does not create shareholder value by using shareholder funds to buy Greek bonds as these shareholders can buy these bonds directly.
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Instead, the income or loss is divided up among as many as 100 shareholders, who report the income or loss directly on their tax returns.
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If lower interest rates lift share prices, this may boost consumer spending as private shareholders feel wealthier, or spur corporate investment by reducing the cost of capital.
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