The Corporate Board
Proxy Access At The Tipping Point
March/April 2017
What happens when the shareholders of most U.S. corporations gain the power to nominate their own slate for board elections? We are about to find out. By the end of 2016, just over half of America’s largest corporations had shareholder proxy access policies in place. The following report examines what this quiet revolution in activist power over the board will mean for proxy season 2017.
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