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.”……
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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…
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…
Stock buybacks can be a harmful ‘sugar high’
By Mickey Kim “CEOs are routinely bashed for their outsized pay, but companies are under intense pressure from Wall Street to produce steady, predictable gains in earnings per share every calendar quarter (i.e. 13 weeks). Pity the poor CEO who…
Six questions about the curse of ‘quarterly capitalism’
By Stian Westlake “A lot of people nowadays are worried about “quarterly capitalism”: the idea that big companies are too busy meeting the short-term demands of equity markets to invest in the future.”… [Click HERE to read the full article]
How Hillary Clinton wants to get companies to invest in workers rather than shareholders
By Bryce Covert “On Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will give a speech in which, among other things, she will call for greater transparency and oversight of a tactic companies use to inflate their stock prices and reward shareholders,…
Could a Hillary Clinton tax hike on short-term investments curb corporate ‘short-termism’
By Catherine Dunn “Hillary Clinton is set to propose a tax hike on investors that her campaign camp says will encourage companies and investors to think more long-term about opportunities for economic growth. In a speech Friday afternoon at the New York…
