Dear, in these last days, Repsol, has revealed a very interesting conflict of interest between its CEO and largest shareholder of the company, the builder Sacyr, which holds 20.01% of its capital. The issue of conflict is the dividend paid to shareholders over the year [...]
Dear employer, in all the years of collaboration with the Economic Focus, if a subject I have written is of Corporate Governance (38 articles in the category Corporate Governance). Even in 2003, during the Enron crisis, we published a monograph in the Keys Collection, dedicated to this subject, the contents of which [...]
Dear employer, the title of this article reproduced from the book by Alfred Chandler (1918-2007) in 1977, the Spanish version of which has just published the editorial in the collection Belloch Esade Hondo. The author, holder of the Chair of Business History at Harvard Business School since 1971, explains how the U.S., the modern enterprise [...]
Dear employer, I think I begin to understand the crisis we are experiencing: a crisis of confidence, not economic, the last and lasting distrust among financial agents. Because, indeed, is a problem between them have been fooling each other and eventually pay it all. Maybe it [...]
Dear employer, more than three years ago they're writing a letter entitled 'remuneration and senior executive, was in 2004 and started to implement measures adopted following the corporate crises of the early century - Enron (s) and company - and one of the most controversial was the transparency [...]
Dear employer, about fifteen days the "Grupo de Trabajo Special advisers to the CNMV on harmonization and update of the referrals Olivencia and Aldama Reports of them on Good Government of the Sociedades cotizadas" presented a first draft of "Unified Code" and opened a public debate on a set of [...]
Dear employer, you want to write this article in an issue that directly affects me, you know that's not my style of address professional issues of self, but what happened this week brings me. 'll Explain.
Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to participate as a speaker at a monthly meeting organized by [...]
Dear employer, a few months ago I got invited to a talk on good governance and business results. I have to say that when I came up I hesitate to accept the invitation. The reason? Within academia there are no conclusions on the subject due to the lack of consensus on the variables [...]
Dear employer, in a recent article (La Vanguardia, 31 January) Professor Wheat, also executive director of Fomento del Trabajo Nacional, exposing his concern that Spain intended to regulate social responsibility (CSR) and therefore appear a series of mandatory regulations. He gave two reasons for [...]
Dear employer, all is known that a few weeks ago the CEO of Repsol YPF, Alfonso Cortina, he resigned and was replaced in office by Antoni Brufau. One consequence of this "resignation" is the compensation of 19 million that the company will pay on resignation, according [...]
