Olympus misses out on restorative surgery
The Japanese optical equipment maker largely squandered a chance at its EGM to draw a clear line under the $1.7bn accounting scandal
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Concerns over deal-making at the Japanese camera maker have been aired by the group’s former chief executive, Michael Woodford
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Olympus settles with ex-chief Woodford
Agreement is subject to approval by Japanese group’s board, with its former head expected to receive a payment in excess of £10m
Olympus expected to settle with Woodford
Sacked former chief of the Japanese optical equipment maker could receive £10m as talks at the employment tribunal edge closer to compromise
Ex-Olympus chief seeks $60m compensation
Michael Woodford, a British executive, is suing the Japanese camera maker at an employment tribunal in London for unfair dismissal and discrimination
Olympus defies critics with new board
Shareholder approval for new line-up despite objections from ousted former chief executive, who threatened court action at an EGM, and small investors
Former Olympus chief warns on governance
Michael Woodford criticises the camera maker for failing to change its culture and practices, and says wider Japanese business also needs reform
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Olympus is litmus test on governance
The camera and medical equipment maker’s largest Japanese institutional investors have been conspicuously silent over the accounting scandal
Olympus committees criticise executives
Investigations have so far provided little comfort for the shrinking group of executives still running the Japanese camera maker
Olympus: the beginning of the end
Market gains were attributed to action against former execs over its accounting scandal. Takeover speculation may also have played a role
Olympus accounts deadline exposes auditors
Camera-maker needs to submit revised statements by Wednesday to avoid delisting, but that also puts its accountants under pressure to sign them off
Olympus epic is less Hollywood and more samurai
Bubble era Japan Inc. was as far from the deregulated ‘Anglo-Saxon model’ as you can get without state ownership, writes Peter Tasker
Is Woodford the right man to run Olympus?
Michael Woodford has undoubtedly done a service to Japanese capitalism by exposing the accounting scandal at Olympus, writes Andrew Hill
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