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More proposals may make it to the ballot, but they also may get fewer votes because the shutdown interfered with shareholder efforts to garner investor support.

Activism against M&A reached an all-time high this year, with more first-time and nontraditional activists agitating for change.

Corporate America wake-up call on borrowing to fund stock buybacks: Once-acquiescent bondholders are balking at increasing leverage to reward equity owners.

Companies see an opening to silence proxy-advisory firms, powerful critics of CEO compensation.

However, Apple will stop reporting quarterly unit-sales data.

"Every man was a first-time director once. If someone took a bet on an untrained director who happened to be a man, you can take a bet on an untrained director who happens to be a woman."