Corporate Rights and Responsibilities: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 455 páginas |
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... independent agency is no guarantee of socially responsible corpo- rate behavior . Harvard economist Richard Caves concluded 20 years ago that the effect of CAB regulation was to create an oligopolistic market and unnecessarily high air ...
... independent agency is no guarantee of socially responsible corpo- rate behavior . Harvard economist Richard Caves concluded 20 years ago that the effect of CAB regulation was to create an oligopolistic market and unnecessarily high air ...
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... independent of all but a few basic legal rules and surely does not resemble the apparent legal struc- ture of " ownership " in the shareholders and " unaccountable " discretion in the management . " D. The proper role of law We may now ...
... independent of all but a few basic legal rules and surely does not resemble the apparent legal struc- ture of " ownership " in the shareholders and " unaccountable " discretion in the management . " D. The proper role of law We may now ...
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... independent directors . Audit committees , for instance , are becoming virtually routine . I think both auditors and members of the board can testify to the effect that they have indeed been a very effective means by which the direc ...
... independent directors . Audit committees , for instance , are becoming virtually routine . I think both auditors and members of the board can testify to the effect that they have indeed been a very effective means by which the direc ...
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... it would mix , I think , govern- ment and a free economy to an extent that would be undesirable . Proposals have been made that there should be outside staff people , independent of the corporation , to assist the directors . 56.
... it would mix , I think , govern- ment and a free economy to an extent that would be undesirable . Proposals have been made that there should be outside staff people , independent of the corporation , to assist the directors . 56.
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... independent of the corporation , to assist the directors . Justice Gold- berg suggested that . It seems to me that suggestion is a problem because then you would have a staff that would be adversary to the staff of the corporation ...
... independent of the corporation , to assist the directors . Justice Gold- berg suggested that . It seems to me that suggestion is a problem because then you would have a staff that would be adversary to the staff of the corporation ...
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Página 73 - ... 1 ) to employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, (2) to make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading...
Página 98 - No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office.
Página 36 - ... under common control with, the person specified. (b) Control. The term "control" (including the terms "controlling", "controlled by" and "under common control with") means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract...
Página 101 - Corporation, or, without being duly authorized, draws any order or issues, puts forth, or assigns any note, debenture, bond, or other obligation, or draft, bill of exchange, mortgage, judgment, or decree thereof...
Página 227 - Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
Página 426 - Great corporations exist only because they are created and safe-guarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
Página 73 - Every person who, directly or indirectly, controls any person liable under any provision of this title or of any rule or regulation thereunder...
Página 100 - ... knowing the same to be falsely altered or spurious, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
Página 79 - Officers and directors shall be deemed to stand in a fiduciary relation to the corporation, and shall discharge the duties of their respective positions in good faith, and with that diligence, care and skill which ordinarily prudent men would exercise under similar circumstances in like positions.
Página 100 - ... or (4) passes, utters or publishes, or attempts to pass, utter or publish, as true any falsely altered or spurious...