Eleanor Bloxham
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Past articles by Eleanor:
Here's How Wells Fargo's Board Of Directors Just Failed Customers
The Board's independent investigation falls short in many ways. → Read More
Will Donald Trump Keep His Campaign Promise To Reinstate Glass-Steagall?
The law was created in 1933 to avoid another financial crisis amid the Great Depression, but most of it was rescinded in 1999. → Read More
What Airbnb’s Brian Chesky Gets Right In His Latest Initiative
This week, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced that he would step up communications with property owners who use his home-sharing startup by creating an advisory board of users and inviting a few users to provide feedback, once a year, at a company board meeting. While these are good ideas since Airbnb's revenue depends on the loyalty of landlords using its platform, the concepts aren't new. The… → Read More
Snap Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed to Go Public Without Voting Rights
If Snap Inc. wanted public ownership funds without the voting strings, the firm could have issued preferred stock. → Read More
How Wells Fargo Can Recover From Its Fake Accounts Scandal
An internal report released next year will be key. → Read More
What the Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Scandal Says About Flaws at the SEC
Last week, CEO John Stumpf retired from his post amid growing criticisms. → Read More
Here Are All The Ways Viacom Has Become a Hot Mess
Viacom is poised to takes its place in history and not in a good way. → Read More
Big Bank Shareholders Face a Crucible This Week at Annual Meetings
We depend on investors at big banks to protect us from economic collapse. They aren't up to the task → Read More
America’s Big Banks Still Can’t Figure Out How to Save Themselves
Who is responsible for oversight of big banks' less-than-adequate "living wills?" It's hard to tell. → Read More
United-Continental’s Leadership Problems Have Deep Roots
Board flare-ups are a part of United-Continental's history. → Read More
Years of CEO Stock Incentives Are Causing Economic Volatility Today
A system that rewards short-term cost cutting is reaching the breaking point. But there are fixes. → Read More
Here’s why Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s board are in hot water
A Delaware judge ruled that Zuckerberg and Facebook's board will have to answer to minority shareholders on director pay. → Read More
Trouble is brewing at the SEC
The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the SEC are moving to water down already inadequate corporate disclosure requirements. → Read More
Here's why you should care about how CEOs get paid
There’s a silent killer wreaking havoc on our economy. Last year, the CEOs of the S&P 500 cost their companies nearly $7 billion in wages and bonuses, according to the AFL-CIO. Or put another... → Read More
Here’s why you can’t trust a company’s financials
A new study says auditors’ signoffs on a company’s books are unreliable a good portion of the time. → Read More
Here’s why you can’t trust a company’s financials
Audit firms seem to be spinning opinions out of thin air. At least that’s the case in more than one in four audits, according to a report issued on Thursday by the Public Company Accounting Overs... → Read More
Here’s why you can’t trust a company’s financials
Audit firms seem to be spinning opinions out of thin air. At least that’s the case in more than one in four audits, according to a report issued on Thursday by the Public Company Accounting Overs... → Read More
Walmart’s new CFO has his work cut out for him
Walmart announced a changing of its financial guard Friday. “Brett Biggs, 47, will succeed Charles Holley, who has elected to retire as the company’s chief financial officer,” the discoun... → Read More
Whole Foods faces a whole new ballgame, with shareholders and customers
Whole Foods is one company that may need to start thinking differently about both shareholder and animal rights. This year, shareholder rights were front and center at many large companies. And pro... → Read More
Sandy Weill and friends need more ‘practice’ running Carnegie Hall
You know the old joke: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice! Practice! Practice! Well, the board of trustees there recently proved that if you sit on some tax-exempt boards you just might get ... → Read More