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  • July 2008

    • Deal Puts Icahn on Yahoo Board

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 21, 08 7:27 AM CDT

      Deal Puts Icahn on Yahoo Board

      Yahoo will add two seats to its board of directors and put Carl Icahn in one of them, reports the Wall Street Journal, in a deal that ends Icahn’s proxy fight. Eight of Yahoo’s current board members, including CEO Jerry Yang, will keep their seats, while a ninth will resign. The board will select two members of Icahn’s proxy slate to fill his seat, and the newly created one. More »

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      Yahoo  • Jerry Yang  • Carl Icahn  • proxy battle  • board of directors

  • May 2008

    • Yahoo Postpones Boardroom Showdown

      newser  |  Forbes  |  May 23, 08 9:15 AM CDT

      Yahoo Postpones Boardroom Showdown

      Yahoo has pushed back its annual shareholder meeting for a second time, reports Forbes , delaying a showdown for control of its board. One of Yahoo's 10 directors resigned yesterday, leaving nine up for re-election at the meeting. Carl Icahn has nominated an alternate slate of directors, including himself, and will try to push through a deal with Microsoft if victorious. More »

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      Yahoo  • Carl Icahn  • shareholders  • proxy battle  • board of directors

  • March 2008

    • Norway Shatters Its Glass Ceiling

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 6, 08 5:44 PM CST

      Norway Shatters Its Glass Ceiling

      A state-mandated shattering of Norway's glass ceiling is drastically changing gender balance in boardrooms there—and not without some resistance, the Guardian reports. A law that 40% of non-executive board directorships at larger firms must go to women went into effect Feb. 22—and though a dozen Norwegian companies failed to fill the quota, an astounding 451 out of 463 did. More »

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      business  • Norway  • CEOs  • gender discrimination  • gender gap  • board of directors  • glass ceiling  • sex ratio

  • February 2008

    • Microsoft to Engineer Proxy Fight for Yahoo's Board

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 19, 08 12:49 PM CST

      Microsoft to Engineer Proxy Fight for Yahoo's Board

      Rather than raise its $44.6 billion hostile takeover bid, Microsoft will start a proxy fight at Yahoo, with an eye to nominating a slate of directors for the board by mid-March. The hardball tactic will cost less than upping the bid—$20 million or $30 million will pay a proxy solicitor and buy shareholder mailers—but it comes with real downsides, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Microsoft  • Yahoo  • proxy battle  • hostile takeover  • board of directors

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