Andrew Behar

The Shareholder Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable

Mitwirkender: Bleed, Wes

• Audio CD

Produktbeschreibung

Learn how individual shareholders can effectively challenge a corporation's destructive practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: DREAMSCAPE MEDIA
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781520046310
• Artikelnr.: 45345188

Autorenporträt

Andrew Behar is a lifelong environmental advocate as well as the founder of a clean-technology start-up that developed innovative fuel-cell technologies for grid-scale energy storage. Since 2010, he has been CEO of As You Sow, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing environmental and social corporate responsibility. Founded in 1992, As You Sow envisions a safe, just, and sustainable world in which environmental health and human rights are central to corporate decision making.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD by Thomas Van Dyck
Introduction You Have More Power Than You Think
Chapter 1 Who Let the Dog Out
Chapter 2 How Ordinary Investors Can Bring Real Change to Big Problems
Chapter 3 What You Can Ask a Corporation to Do
Chapter 4 How to Vote Your Proxy
Chapter 5 How to Influence Your Fund Manager
Chapter 6 Engaging with a Corporation and Filing a Shareholder Resolution
Chapter 7 Opportunities and Decisions to Make Real Change
Chapter 8 What Kind of People Engage with Corporations
Chapter 9 Foundations and Individual Shareholders Can Make a Difference
Chapter 10 The Power of Disclosure
Chapter 11 Divestment as the Ultimate Escalation of Engagement
Chapter 12 How Do I Know What I Own?
Chapter 13 How to Get Your Company to Offer Funds Aligned with Your Values
Chapter 14 A New Generation of Corporate Leaders
Chapter 15 Time to Take Back Your Power
Resource A Acknowledgments and Biographies of Interviewed Leaders
Resource B Links
Resource C Alliance Building for a Shareholder Movement
Resource D Glossary and Acronyms
About As You Sow
About the Author
Endnotes
Index