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Executive Compensation Provisions in Dodd-Frank: Part 4
Hedging Disclosures for Employees and Directors Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the SEC to adopt rules requiring companies to disclose in proxy statements for annual meetings whether any employee, director or designee may hedge ownership of the company’s...
Executive Compensation Provisions in Dodd-Frank: Part 3
Independence of Compensation Consultants and Other Compensation Committee Advisors Section 10C(b) of Dodd-Frank deals with the “Independence of Compensation Consultants and Other Compensation Committee Advisors”. A compensation committee may only select a...
Executive Compensation Provisions in Dodd-Frank: Part 2
Compensation Committee Independence & Hiring National securities exchanges and associations already have their own requirements to ensure that compensation committee members are independent. Under NYSE and NASDAQ corporate governance standards, directors can...
Executive Compensation Provisions in Dodd-Frank: Part 1
The following analysis was prepared by Ryan Hemphill in the Spring of 2011. Here, Ryan Hemphill addresses the Executive Compensation provisions within the recently passed Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. By analyzing the specific...
Jeffrey Skilling and the Enron Debacle: Part 16
Enron’s Progeny: Dodd-Frank and Beyond Additional regulatory changes/additions from recent years shows that the public is still affected by the actions of Jeffrey Skilling and the Enron collapse. Most prominently, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
Jeffrey Skilling and the Enron Debacle: Part 15
Regulatory Response Continues: The Bankruptcy of Morals & The Homestead Exemption after Enron For instance, as public outrage increased over the devastating pension losses for Enron employees, more attention was paid to the personal financial gains (and losses) of...
Jeffrey Skilling and the Enron Debacle: Part 14
Regulatory & Public Policy Response: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (aka Sarbox or SOX) After the wave of scandals that swept through Corporate America following Enron’s collapse, the confidence of both investors and ordinary Americans outside of the markets were...
Jeffrey Skilling and the Enron Debacle: Part 13
Reverberation: The Loss of Consumer Confidence A June 5th, 2006 Gallup poll revealed that 3 out of 4 American's believe that top executives at large corporations participate in practices similar to those of the top executives at Enron. Furthermore, 9 out of 10...
Jeffrey Skilling and the Enron Debacle: Part 12
Broken Promises: How Enron’s Corporate Imperialism Left India Powerless Enron also epitomized the corporate imperialist doctrine of modern globalist economics by bullying their way into developing countries with large-scale infrastructure projects that fail to live...
Jeffrey Skilling and the Enron Debacle: Part 11
California Schemin’: How Enron Fleeced the Golden State Another group of individuals negatively affected by the deceitful actions of Enron management were the citizens of California. The California energy crisis of 2000-2001 took advantage of California energy...