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Welcome to Silicon Valley: Give Right or Get Out! (NBC News; 4/10/14)

Welcome to Silicon Valley: Give Right or Get Out! (NBC News; 4/10/14)

Activists who campaigned for the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich over a $1,000 anti-gay marriage donation made in 2008 got their wish, but may also have inadvertently opened a Pandora’s Box in Silicon Valley, where Birkenstocks and kale smoothies don’t always mean liberal political views....
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Shareholders slam Facebook over ‘incongruent’ PAC contributions on gay rights, online piracy (PC World; 4/8/14)

Shareholders slam Facebook over ‘incongruent’ PAC contributions on gay rights, online piracy (PC World; 4/8/14)

Read PC World’s article about NorthStar’s shareholder proposal at Facebook which takes issue with how the company’s PAC makes political contributions....
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NorthStar seeks proxy support from fellow shareholders at annual meetings

NorthStar seeks proxy support from fellow shareholders at annual meetings

Among its many filings for 2014, NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. has filed four shareholder proposals that will be up for a vote this spring. Details on those votes are below: 1) At EMC, our shareholder proposal entitled “Congruency between Corporate Values and Political Contributions” is propo...
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Facebook’s hypocritical approach to transparency (Fortune; 3/27/14)

Facebook’s hypocritical approach to transparency (Fortune; 3/27/14)

Fortune interviewed NorthStar’s CEO Julie Goodridge about our shareholder proposal on political contributions. Read the article here....
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Investors Protest Corporate Lawsuits Against Shareowners (SocialFunds; 3/25/14)

Investors Protest Corporate Lawsuits Against Shareowners (SocialFunds; 3/25/14)

A coalition of investors led by NorthStar Asset Management writes to four companies that have sought to bypass regulatory system by bringing lawsuits against shareowners for resolutions they filed....
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Groups Rap Omnicom for Suing Chevedden (O’Dwyer PR; 3/24/14)

Groups Rap Omnicom for Suing Chevedden (O’Dwyer PR; 3/24/14)

O’Dwyer PR reported on NorthStar’s investor campaign in support of shareholders that received lawsuits from companies, purportedly, to silence them. Read the article here....
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How to Weigh the Future (Inside Higher Ed: 5/23/2013)

How to Weigh the Future (Inside Higher Ed: 5/23/2013)

Would you be willing to pay about $13,000 more a year in tuition to go to a college that doesn’t invest in fossil fuels? . . . “My view of the Swarthmore paper is that it’s asking, ‘What’s the worst possible case of what it’s going to cost to divest?’ " said Christine Jantz, an inve...
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Investing With Foresight (The Dartmouth: 5/23/13)

Investing With Foresight (The Dartmouth: 5/23/13)

Last Monday, I attended a jam-packed “Dialogue on Divestment” with visiting Tuck School of Business professor Anant Sundaram, 350.org founder Bill McKibben and visiting environmental studies professor Terry Tempest Williams. 350.org’s “Fossil Free” movement has already succeded at encourag...
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Intel Becomes First Company to Commit to Political Giving Alignment Review

Intel Becomes First Company to Commit to Political Giving Alignment Review

After fruitful negotiations with NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., a Boston-based wealth management firm, Intel Corporation will become the first U.S. corporation to commit to reviewing its political contributions for congruence with its company policies (such as the Intel Code of Conduct, Environme...
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Boston Reaches Out to LGBT Grad Students with MBA Conference (EDGE Boston: 10/29/12)

Boston Reaches Out to LGBT Grad Students with MBA Conference (EDGE Boston: 10/29/12)

The 15th Annual Reaching Out Conference for Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Business Graduate students was held last weekend, October 18-20, at the Seaport Hotel World Trade Center in Boston. The largest conference of its kind, it welcomed more than 1,000 students, business professionals and re...
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