Big Tech’s brush with shareholder activism in India
Voting powers at Alphabet and Meta have ensured that shareholder proposals on human rights concerns in India hardly make a dent; separately, Reliance-owned Fynd finds itself in the soup.
2 June, 2023•9 min
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