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Proxy Music

May 31, 2015
Readers, grab a cocktail and prepare to hear incredible but true tales from Clean Yield’s 2015 proxy season, a compendium of surprises both pleasant and unpleasant, some outright success stories, ironic twists, and at least one instance of bad luck.… Read More >

Clean Yield’s 2014 Proxy Season Wrap-Up

August 26, 2014
Forget Game of Thrones. The real drama this year concerned the fate of Clean Yield’s shareholder proposals and the outcomes of our dialogues with corporations. We’ve been in talks with HBO — for what seems like forever — about a… Read More >

Proxy Help Is On The Way!

March 25, 2014
April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot, and he didn’t even have to deal with an influx of corporate proxy ballots, guiltily cluttering his in-box and begging to be voted in time for their respective stockholder meetings. As we… Read More >

Remembering Rian/Dad

August 21, 2013
Every day since the passing this summer of my father and colleague, Rian Fried, I’m reminded of something else about him that I miss. First and foremost, Dad was a natural advice-giver (a nice trait to have in our business),… Read More >