ISS

British  

abbreviation

1. International Space Station

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Example Sentences

An earlier study I co-wrote with Manhattan Institute colleagues found that an ISS recommendation “for” a shareholder proposal was associated with a 15-percentage-point increase in support; other studies have shown similar results, with Glass Lewis also having a major, if smaller, influence.

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In 2024 ISS supported 53% of all “social” shareholder proposals, while Glass Lewis supported 43%.

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And although ISS radically scaled back support for social proposals in 2025 and supported “only” 28% of environmental proposals this year, down from 61% in 2024, it still supported asking Deere & Co. to conduct a civil-rights audit.

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First, although they only advise rather than direct voting for institutional investors, ISS and Glass Lewis exert a huge influence over a large swath of the American stock market.

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A 2021 Manhattan Institute study by Paul Rose, now dean of the Case Western Reserve University law school, found that 114 institutional investors with assets under management of more than $5 trillion voted in lockstep alignment with either ISS or Glass Lewis in 2020.

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