I am attending the Global Ethics Summit 2010, hosted by Dow Jones and Ethisphere. Here are my notes from this session: General Electric and Google are two very different, yet equally substantial powerhouses with varying businesses to each company’s name. Ensuring compliance with U.S. and foreign regulations while maintaining Google and GE’s respective competitive edges … Read more »
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GE To Stop Offering Quarerly Earnings Forecasts
GE had originally begun making quarterly earnings forecast to display its consistent earnings to Wall Street. According to the Wall Street Journal, some GE observers think the earnings forecast prompted executives to sell assets or make other moves to hit their estimates. From a compliance perspective, you would be worried that the pressure to hit … Read more »
Securities Litigation and the FCPA
last week the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in a securities litigation case related to FCPA violations in Glazer Capital Management LP v. Magistri. Glazer’s claims arose after InVision Technologies, Inc. (InVision) announced, in March 2004, that it had entered into a merger agreement with General Electric (GE). Several months later, in July 2004, … Read more »