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...Most companies, not surprisingly, aren't so amenable to the idea. The core argument against the movement is that CEOs get paid a market rate and say-on-pay votes undermine the very nature of corporate governance - a board of directors charged with luring and keeping the best talent. In the rebuttal statements to say-for-pay proposals found in their annual proxies, companies lay out all sorts of counter-arguments. IBM says there's no way that shareholders can know what's an appropriate pay practice since they're not privy to competitive information like which executives are receiving...
...Perhaps the savviest argument companies make is that there are mixed results about what, exactly, say-on-pay votes accomplish. In the U.K. there have been some resounding successes - most notably GlaxoSmithKline, which revamped its pay practices, aligning compensation with performance, after a "no" vote of 50.7% in 2003. (Its CEO at the time was on track to earn about $18 million.) Yet various studies have shown that in the years since say-on-pay went into effect, CEO compensation has continued to rise, anywhere between 5% and 11% annually...
...conjunction with existing curricula. “The subject areas are like courses available now at Cambridge Rindge and Latin,” said Evangeline H. Stefanakis, a Boston University professor who presented aspects of the IB program at last night’s meeting. The thrust of the argument for the IB program focused on preparing students for college and creating a network of worldwide equivalency with other IB schools. There are currently 2,294 schools worldwide, and 873 in the United States, that offer the IB. “It started out only with private schools...
...with the meeting’s acting parliamentarian, Chinese History Professor Peter K. Bol, before making her pronouncement into the microphone: “no.” “I would like to say that I don’t think that that’s an argument for voting in favor of this motion,” Burgard said. “It seems manifestly clear to me that these meetings will become decidedly less precious opportunities if there are fewer people involved in them,” he continued. “One sixth already strikes...
...proponents of single-sex high schools say that boys are more confident in the classroom.” Fleming, for her part, believes that the presence of boys will not overwhelmingly effect her lifestyle. She does note, however, that she might be more likely to back down in an argument with a boy in class because “at Winsor we are very careful not to step on each other’s toes, because girls are more sensitive.” But overall, Fleming is confident that her all-girls education will be a benefit...