Netflix shareholders

The article discusses Netflix shareholders, who will vote at the company’s annual meeting on a proposal by two public pension funds to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive officers.

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http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/08/netflix-investors-to-vote-on-c-e-o-chairman-split/?

Questions:

1. Who are the backers of this corporate governance issue and why do you think they are pursuing this?
2. What other firms have been pressured to do this in recent years? Is this a good thing? Discuss in terms of costs and benefits.
3. What are some of the recent battles that Netflix has encountered? Discuss whether any of these could be related to this corporate governance issue.

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Netflix Company is being faced with an issue that makes it necessary for the shareholders to vote for during the coming general annual meeting. Different from the matter of subjecting the members of the board to a re-election annually from the usual three year term, the shareholders are supposed to vote on whether the duties of chairman should be separated from those of the chief executive. The two backers were Calpers and Mr. Scott M. Stringer who believed that separating these roles would improve corporate…..

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