A company ballot is not a town hall
The federal proposal rule turned corporate meetings into a venue for campaigns that shareholders never asked to fund. Ownership questions belong in state law.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2026
TopicCorporate Strategy
The ballot is the only lever owners have
A shareholder proposal is the one mechanism by which the people who own a company can put a question to it without buying control. The SEC proposes to remove it.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2026
Thirty films a year, a monitor for CNN
Paramount is reportedly close to settling with the states blocking its Warner takeover. The terms under discussion read less like an antitrust remedy than an industrial policy.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2026
Building startups for one customer
Vantora raised its first outside capital, $100m, on a model that inverts the venture bargain: each company it builds belongs to the corporate partner that commissioned it.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2026
The settlement stays sealed
OpenAI wanted to see what Apple gave Elon Musk's companies to get out of the case. The judge read it privately and said it had nothing to do with the claims that remain.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2026
The SEC steps out of the proxy ballot
The Commission proposes to repeal the rule that lets shareholders put proposals on a company's ballot, arguing it never had the authority to write it.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2026
Boards plan the exit in advance
Chief executive departures ran at records for two years. The change worth noticing is that a growing share of them were arranged rather than forced.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
The training budget finds a purpose
Corporate learning spend was a compliance function with a course catalogue. It is being redirected at a skills gap most employers say they have.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
The office is a quality trade
Attendance mandates have largely won the argument. They have not produced demand for offices, only for a narrow band of them.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
The exit is an acquisition
The listing is not the plan and has not been for years. Most companies that reach an exit reach it by being bought, usually for a modest sum.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2026
Boards formalize AI oversight before regulators ask twice
Audit committees are adding AI to their charters, demanding inventories of deployed systems and clarity on who answers when one fails.
JULY 17, 2026
The middle layer absorbs aI's organizational shock
As reporting, coordination, and status work automate, companies are redefining what management means rather than simply thinning it.
JUNE 10, 2026
Corporate venture arms return with narrower mandates
After a chastening cycle, corporate investors are back in startup funding rounds, now tied tightly to commercial partnerships rather than strategic optionality.
JANUARY 15, 2026