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Eliot Spitzer: Can Twitter Empower Shareholders?

For decades, shareholders have abandoned their responsibility to use their votes to shape corporate behavior. But perhaps technology can revive democracy on Wall Street. Could shareholders, gathered by an emergency twitter message, soon converge on a shareholder meeting to demand a claw-back for ill-gotten bonuses? Could proxy voting in 2011 generate the same enthusiasm as actual voting did in 2008?

Figuring Executive Compensation: Obama Finds It Isn’t Easy

For all of President Obama’s recent criticism of “fat cats” on Wall Street, his administration and the Congress have thus far proven unable to even begin addressing the issue in any fundamental way. New evidence of that can be found in the current The New York Times Magazine cover story, which focuses on the work of Kenneth Feinberg, the “pay czar” for companies receiving bailouts under the federal government’s TARP program.

New Website Aims to Increase Proxy Voting by Retail Investors

Hoping to reverse a decline in proxy voting by retail shareowners, Moxy Vote assembles a group of advocates with which shareowners can choose to align their votes.

Good Corp., Bad Corp. – Corporate Citizenship and the Bottom Line

Investment Advisor magazine interviews Stanford University’s David Baron on his research about corporate citizenship and its impact on companies’ financial and stock performance. The research has implications for financial advisors and their clients interested in socially responsible investment portfolios.

Majority of Cisco Shareholders Urge “Say on Executive Pay”

Shareholders of Cisco Systems Inc. narrowly approved – with 51% of the vote – a proposal to give investors a nonbinding vote on executive pay at the networking-equipment company.