Editor’s Note:  This post is reprinted with permission of Business Wire.  By Thomas Becktold, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, Business Wire Turns out, quite a bit.  You see, within...

By Scott Mozarsky, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, PR Newswire The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance Tuesday that permits public companies to disclose material...

The SEC has filed civil injunctive complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with improper accounting at Volt Information Sciences, Inc., a company located...

The boards of U.S.technology companies are more likely to have a separate chairman and CEO than their S&P 500 counterparts, but have a much lower representation of female directors. These are among...

From Main Street to Wall Street, it appears that we Americans are in a dour mood, perhaps with good reason. A quick look a the headlines tells the story… “Wall Street Braces for Dismal 4th Quarter”...

Gene Marbach At Large The quality of a company’s corporate governance practices is an important factor in determining its valuation.  Investors often derive a degree of comfort when they see a board...

Editor’s Note:  This is the first in a series of articles about Apple, post-Steve Jobs. Gene Marbach At Large Some CEOs spend a good deal of time looking over their shoulders in fear of shareholder...

By Gene Marbach The Securities and Exchange Commission charged three executives with repeatedly lying to investors about the operations and financial condition of an Irvine, Calif.-based company that...

A number of years ago when I worked in the investor relations practice of a public relations firm, one of my colleagues in another practice remarked, “If I had known yesterday, I would have bought the...

As we know serving as a director of a public company hasn’t been much fun over the recent years.  Restive shareholders, new regulations, corporate reputation, and executive compensation number among...

By Gene Marbach Let’s see… Your annual investor relations itinerary typically consists of appearances at a number of brokerage-sponsored conferences and perhaps some sell-side supported road shows to...

By Eric Vidal Earnings calls are high-profile, high-stakes events. Global audiences, competition for capital and the pressures to perform in today’s business environment put pressure on Investor...

By Sheryl Joyce, Director of Marketing Communications, Q4 Web Systems Editor’s note: In this post, Q4 shares topline findings from its first in a series of white papers. Click through here to...

By Randall Bolten, Founder, Lucidity; Author, “Painting with Numbers: Presenting Financials and Other Numbers So People Will Understand You” If you’re an investor relations professional, you have a...

By Casey Boggs, LT Public Relations Communicating corporate social responsibility is one of the biggest trends for CFOs and businesses to tackle right now. In 2010, Dodd-Frank was the most substantial...

By Gerard F. Corbett, APR, Fellow PRSA, CEO, Public Relations Society of America It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that many Americans have no clue what the Federal Reserve is or does. Often...

By L.J. Rittenhouse, President, Rittenhouse Rankings On Halloween 2011, MF Global announced that it would file for bankruptcy protection after its billion dollar bets on European sovereign bonds triggered...

In conjunction with Strategic Stock Surveillance, a market intelligence firm, Makovsky + Company recently sponsored a webinar entitled, “Proxy Season ’12:  A Survival Guide.”  The panelists were:...

By Billie G Blair, PhD, President and CEO, Change Strategists All indications are that Rupert Murdoch will prevail at today’s annual shareholders’ meeting, that his and his directors’ tenure in...

By Billie G Blair, PhD, President and CEO, Change Strategists There seems to be a growing expectation that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be the one to pinpoint magical fixes for the economy...