Mr Hewlett has launched a lawsuit which alleges Hewlett-Packard coerced one big shareholder, Deutsche Bank, into voting with the board.
It is also hammering out the future governance of Bank of Ayudhya with its other big shareholder, the Ratanarak family, led by billionaire Krit Ratanarak.
Rio was seeking to shore up its finances (and fend off any future bids) by bringing in Chinalco, a state-owned Chinese firm, as a big shareholder.
Hank Greenberg, a former CEO of AIG and a big shareholder is pursuing an action against the government for the dilution imposed on shareholders due to the bailout.
Unlike Dresdner, it lacks the protection of a big shareholder.
For example, besides both firms being members of the consortium that builds the Eurofighter (see picture above), EADS is a big shareholder in Dassault, manufacturer of the rival Rafale jet.
Two years ago, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch firm born from the merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, found itself, uneasily, with a new big shareholder, Alisher Usmanov, another of the steel oligarchs.
The firm's shares slipped further after news that prosecutors were seeking to have another big shareholder, Vasily Shakhnovsky, stripped of his parliamentary immunity so he can face charges of tax evasion.
But having a successful predecessor sitting on the board (and, as is often the case with second-act chief executives, a big shareholder to boot) cannot have made life easy for David Pottruck, who had taken over from Mr Schwab in 2003.
With a strong price on carbon, how much of those reserves will be left in the ground, in essence, creating liabilities that could take a big toll on shareholder value?
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It will keep experience of these prior technologies front of mind and will focus on one question: How can I use Big Data analytics to increase shareholder value?
But this leads to another problem, since it leaves the central bank and the government, already the largest shareholder at several big banks, in control of an increasingly large amount of shares (though much of this is counted as shares held by trust banks).
The government will amend company law so that shareholder votes on big businesses' prospective remuneration plans for executives will be binding - as opposed to the current system of advisory votes (which have the power to embarrass companies but not to compel them).
What I find so curious is that, despite AMR's big-time recovery, its shareholder constituency shrank by 1, 000 last year, to 14, 300, about the size of its pilot staff.
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Such a view is not surprising, given her background: she has worked since 1986 with Bob Monks, one of America's best-known champions of better corporate governance, setting up Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises big institutions on casting proxy votes.
Big companies are often controlled by a dominant shareholder.
The usual shareholder-owned-fund sponsors charge big fees and take a large fraction of them to their bottom lines.
The city government has set itself up as shareholder or partner in at least 200 big firms ranging from car making to fast food.
The biggest obstacle to shareholder activism is the fact that most big fund managers also run money on behalf of companies in the form of 401(k) plans and pension funds.
The foundation does not own big enough stakes in companies to influence their behaviour through shareholder activism, even if it does nod to political correctness by declining to invest in cigarette firms.
The other big problem, says Fries: managers' reluctance to maximize shareholder value.
The deal is a big win for Mr. Karp, who remains a large shareholder, and the site's early venture investors, which include Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Institutional Shareholder Services, with plenty of throw weight to move big investors, initially backed Esmark.
Mr Ebner, who is Algroup's biggest shareholder, has long wanted the chance to run a big company himself.
As a shareholder, I'm thrilled that Google actually has big projects it believes are worth pursuing, as opposed to sitting passively on a mountain of cash.
Nearly two thirds of voters plan to back the so-called anti-fat cat initiative in the referendum that would allow a binding annual shareholder vote on executive compensation for listed companies and block big payouts for new hires and for managers when they leave.
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