By Austin Wright “INSIDE THE DEFENSE STOCK BUYBACK BONANZA: Our colleague Austin Wright has a look at the industry’s controversial stock maneuver: “Defense stocks are soaring despite a decline in military spending because of tactics that are at odds with the…
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Why you don’t (and can’t) have a full-time ScrumMaster
By Greyrock Agile “Among the most common impediments facing teams and organizations when they are attempting to adopt Scrum is the lack of a full-time ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Team Members in general, and Team Members with testing expertise in particular.”……
Despite big moves by Alibaba, Maersk, US remains stock buyback king
By Owen Davis “Recent share repurchase announcements from overseas companies seem cut from the same cloth as U.S. companies currently engaged in a buyback craze. Alibaba, the Chinese online retailer, tacked a $4 billion buyback onto its disappointing earnings report Wednesday.”… [Click HERE…
Should share buybacks be made illegal?
By Andrew Ross Sorkin “Should corporate stock buybacks be regulated? Or made illegal? Those are the questions not-so-quietly being floated in Washington by a group of elected officials and others trying to get elected, including most recently, Hillary Rodham Clinton.”… [Click…
SEC admits it’s not monitoring stock buybacks to prevent market manipulation
By David Dayen “The Securities and Exchange Commission has admitted that it has no ability to enforce the main rule intended to prevent market manipulation when companies buy back their own stock, and has no intention to do so. SEC…
Clinton’s Proposals on Stock Buybacks Don’t Go Far Enough
In his Harvard Business Review Blog Network article on August 11, 2015, William Lazonick argues that Hillary Clinton’s economic policy proposals will be ineffective in stemming stock buybacks, and could even make the situation worse. [Click HERE to read the…
Stock Buybacks Draw Scrutiny From Politicians
In a New York Times article on August 10, 2015, Andrew Ross Sorkin recognizes that the problem of stock buybacks has entered into US political debate. [Please click HERE to read the article]
Why the SEC’s CEO pay rule matters
By Lenore Palladino “Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally approved a rule mandating that public companies regularly reveal the compensation gap between their chief executives and the rest of their workforce. Once the first data points from the rule…
Why Hillary Clinton’s capital-gains tax plan won’t work
By Eric Reed “We’ve been hearing for months now about the possibility of a Clinton campaign answer to inequality and the problem of “short term capitalism.” For Democrats, it’s an increasingly unavoidable issue as party activists have embraced economic populism…
Christine Oughton
Christine Oughton is Professor of Management Economics and Head of the Department of Financial and Management Studies at SOAS, University of London. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Before joining SOAS she was Professor of…
