Structural Shifts: concomitant widespread elimination of (i) supermajority voting requirements, (ii) staggered or classified board terms, and (iii) stockholder rights plans (often done to avoid or compromise likely stockholder proposals), accompanied by limitations on (iv) change-in-control executive severance agreements, along with (v) increased stockholder rights to call special stockholder meetings, in tandem with (vi) highly publicized proposals advocating multiflavored… [read post]