You can learn a lot about Julie Goodridge, the CEO of NorthStar Asset Management, by asking her about her first job. "When I got out of college, I went to Philadelphia and then to Tampa," she says. "My job was to knock on people's doors and help understand what their concerns were in their completel...

What does the Bay of Pigs have to do with lack of diversity in boardrooms—a situation in corporate America that Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat recently described as an "embarrassment"? More than you might think....

Julie Goodridge was an invited guest on CNBC's Closing Bell to discuss NorthStar's proposal at Facebook's annual meeting this May. View the video here....

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....

Read PC World’s article about NorthStar’s shareholder proposal at Facebook which takes issue with how the company’s PAC makes political contributions....

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...

Fortune interviewed NorthStar’s CEO Julie Goodridge about our shareholder proposal on political contributions. Read the article here....

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....

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....

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...