Compliance & Governance 
Oscars Skirmish Provides Lesson in Corporate Governance(3)
A confrontation between The Walt Disney Company and Cablevision means more than 3 million New York-area homes may not be able to see the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Language used by the corporate combatants hints at progress in the movement toward corporate governance reform.
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Opinion: SEC on ESG?
When do you know that ESG (or factoring environmental, social, and governance issues into investment and corporate decisions) has gone mainstream? One signal would be the agenda of last week’s meeting of the Securities and Exchanhe Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee, which included items such as “ESG Disclosure Work Plan” and “Proxy Voting Transparency.”
Business Ethics in China: What Would Chairman Mao Think?
The Communist Party’s Central Committee has issued a code of ethics specifying 52 unacceptable practices and warned that violators would be “severely” disciplined and subject to criminal charges. The 52 practices include accepting cash or financial instruments as gifts, and using influence to benefit spouses, children or others in employment, stock trading or business.
Apple Increases Its Monitoring of Suppliers
The company says it conducted on-site audits at 102 facilities in 2009, up from 83 in 2008, and trained 133,000 workers, supervisors and managers, a sharp increase from 27,000 a year earlier.
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