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Chesapeake Energy May Be in for a Culture Shock

Posted: May 20, 2013 at 8:05 am

Barely six weeks after founder and former chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon was shown the door, Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has named his successor. Robert Douglas Lawler, currently senior ...
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New CEO: Chesapeake Energy Cleans Up Its Act

Posted: May 20, 2013 at 7:05 am

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) finally has succeeded in throwing out its morally challenged CEO Aubrey McClendon and some of his equally morally challenged board. McClendon not only enjoyed extravagant compensation, ...
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He’s Baaaack — Aubrey McClendon Launches New Venture

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 12:30 pm

That didn’t take long. Co-founder of and former Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) CEO and chairman Aubrey McClendon is back in the oil & gas business. McClendon’s last day at ...
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Chesapeake: The First Day of the Rest of Its Life

Posted: April 1, 2013 at 7:55 am

Aubrey McClendon, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), is officially the former CEO of the company today. Last Friday the company’s board of directors named long-time ...
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Chesapeake Raising Another $2.3 Billion in Capital

Posted: March 19, 2013 at 1:26 pm

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) is raising more capital, with this latest offering being a debt offering to the tune of about $2.3 billion. The laddered maturity schedule is going ...
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Michigan Firm Sues Chesapeake, Encana for Bid-Rigging

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 4:34 pm

Natural gas producers Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) and Encana Corp. (NYSE: ECA) are the targets of a federal civil suit by Northstar Energy, a Michigan oil and gas field ...
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Aubrey Gets How Much for Retiring (Getting Fired)???

Posted: January 30, 2013 at 12:16 pm

There is a common belief among the public that chief executive officers of public companies get hundreds of millions of dollars, even when their results are not good. While that ...
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McClendon Out at Chesapeake

Posted: January 30, 2013 at 7:26 am

Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s (NYSE: CEO) CEO Aubrey McClendon is leaving the company he co-founded in 1989, citing “philosophical differences” with Chesapeake’s board. Until last year, there would have been no ...
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Eight Outrageous CEO Perks

Posted: December 13, 2012 at 5:46 am

The outcry about overpaid CEOs has gone on for years as the financial press combs SEC statements for outlandish pay packages that sometime run into the tens of millions ...
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America’s Worst Boards

Posted: July 17, 2012 at 12:17 pm

At a time when corporate malfeasance is high on the public radar, it is important to understand corporate structure and how the checks and balances within a public company operate. ...
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Chesapeake CEO McClendon: Living Large & Leveraged

Posted: June 7, 2012 at 8:19 am

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) CEO Aubrey McClendon used his stake in the company’s wells to borrow more than $1.5 billion to pay for his share of the operating expenses ...
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Icahn Tries To Replace Four Chesapeake Directors

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 4:39 pm

Carl Icahn has used the mess at Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) to try to take four board seats. Chesapeake's shares have cratered because of trouble involving the side-by-side investments of ...
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Insider Buy at Continental Resources Less Than Meets the Eye

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 11:35 am

When a CEO lays out good money to purchase shares of his company at market prices, that’s usually a positive signal to shareholders. Such is the case with Continental Resources ...
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Chesapeake Shares Diving on Results, McClendon (CHK, XOM, EOG)

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 8:04 am

Natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) reported first quarter results after the markets closed yesterday. The company missed the headline numbers, but that’s not the company’s biggest problem. ...
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McClendon Out as Chairman at Chesapeake (CHK)

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 11:59 am

Aubrey McClendon, chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), will relinquish his chairman’s role as soon as the company’s boards appoints a new non-executive chairman. The announcement said ...
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