Divesting the right businesses at the right time is critical to maximizing shareholder value. However, even the most sophisticated companies encounter substantial barriers to good corporate portfolio management.

As we become a less and less private society, helped by the web, data breaches, and the like, the question actually should be raised: is anything really private any longer? Certainly, based on Proofpoint's fifth annual report on Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention, you shouldn't be expecting any privacy in your work email as 41 percent of large U.S. corporations monitor employee email.

In a just-completed survey of Fortune 500 companies operating in accelerating economies – Brazil, Russia, India, and China (the so-called “BRIC” countries) – a team at Stevens Institute of Technology has found that continued, accelerated corporate growth may be hampered by insufficiently trained technical personnel failing to meet international standards.

As part of its overall efforts to promote transparency for stockholders and others, General Motors Corporation is releasing its first, voluntary disclosure of corporate contributions for the calendar year to section 527 organizations and individual candidates for state and local office.

Paddy Briggs, a former executive of Royal Dutch Shell has written an important article stimulated by current events in Burma.

A senior Russian environmental official, Oleg Mitvol, has claimed that a $50 million bribe was allegedly offered to him by the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell in respect of the multi-billion dollar Sakhalin-2 project in Russia.

Is skullduggery by the oil giant Shell in far away Nigeria responsible for crimping the flow of oil, resulting in artificially inflated oil prices and alleged price gouging at the gas pump?

US companies take their corporate history far more seriously than most of their UK counterparts, according to a new study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Most grew up with the familiar saying, "It is better to give than to receive," and many corporations live by this adage when they donate money to charitable causes. University of Missouri-Columbia researchers, however, have found that corporate giving may not be the cure-all that some companies would expect.

Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and an architect of the Iraq war in his preceding Pentagon job plans to argue that the institution's ethics committee knew of his involvement in securing a promotion and pay raise for his girlfriend.