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I have a personal relationship with Dov Seidman, and therefore have a conflict of interest. I am submitting the following proposed changes for independent editors to evaluate, in accordance with the directions at Wikipedia's Contact Us [1] page for the subjects of articles.
1. In the Infobox, in the Children section, PLEASE DELETE
| children = 2. Lev Seidman and Lana Seidman.
and INSTEAD, PLEASE ADD
| children = 2
Note: This is no source for the names of the children. Even if there were one, for privacy reasons I would request Seidman’s children’s names be removed.
AND
for personal website, please delete:
| website =
www
and change it to:
| website =
thehowinstitute
Note: This is a more recent website.
2. In the first paragraph, as the last sentence of the paragraph: PLEASE ADD
He is also the founder and chairman of The HOW Institute for Society. [1] [2]
Note: These sources support that his work at the HOW Institute is now a major part of his career, so should be included.
3. In Section “Career”, in the first paragraph, please add two sentences to paragraph one.
Borrowing money from friends and using credit cards, he launched the Legal Research Network in 1994, to offer outsourced legal research and analysis to corporate law departments and law firms. He raised $2 million from 42 investors. [3]
Reason: accurately sources the beginning of the company. Sources to major newspaper (Wall Street Journal)
Relevant Excerpt Behind ProQuestPaywall:
“He left his job, canceled a clerkship for the Supreme Court of Israel, borrowed money from friends and went into debt on his credit cards. He wrote Zoe Baird, the Aetna general counsel, and outlined his ideas after reading that she was studying ways to cut the company's legal costs. He did the same with a lawyer at MCI, who introduced him to other corporate executives. As the business plan developed, Mr. Seidman lured a well-connected board of directors and advisers, some of whom became investors. They include the dean of University of Southern California law school and former Rep. Mel Levine, now a partner at the Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn &Crutcher. Through a private stock offering completed in April, LRN raised just over $2 million from 42 individual investors.”
4. In Section “Career”, in the first paragraph, please add a third sentence to paragraph one.
By the end of 1999, he transitioned LRN into offering a SaaS-based ethics and compliance education platform becoming one of the first companies in compliance training.. [4] Seidman also had LRN analyze corporate cultures and write codes of conduct. [5]
Reason: Describes the transition the company went under in late 1990s. Sourced to Fortune Magazine and Salt Lake Tribune.
5. In Section “Career”, in the first paragraph, please add a fourth sentence to paragraph one:
In addition to helping companies meet their compliance requirements, Seidman’s work at LRN was focused on advising companies on how to build ethical cultures that operate successfully. [6]
Reason: more accurately describes the transition that LRN underwent from providing research to training on compliance and ethics. Sources to major magazines and newspapers.
6. After the first paragraph, add a second paragraph
Seidman founded The HOW Institute for Society, a non-profit focused on moral leadership, and served as its chairman.. [7] In the How Institute's 2020 the State of Moral Leadership in Business report, Seidman said the global pandemic and political environment had intensified the need for moral leadership. [8]
Reason: Seidman has taken on a new role as chairman of the HOW Institute. The institute is publishing research on moral entrepreneurship.
7. In the Early Life section after the last sentence, which begins “He returned to the United States...”, PLEASE ADD
Seidman’s first business was as a teenager detailing automobiles, including R&B singer Lionel Richie’s cars every Saturday. [9] [10]
Reason: an interesting fact which is part of Seidman’s early life. Not critical but colorful and demonstrative of being an early entrepreneur.
8. As the new last paragraph of “Career”, please add:
In 2022, Seidman became a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. [11]
Reason: Teaching position at Harvard has a Wikipedia page; used a leading foreign publication as source. It covered VP of Phillipines getting same position in same year as Seidman.
Thank you. Wikiqueen32 ( talk) 23:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC) Wikiqueen32 ( talk) 23:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
The allegations have yet to be tested in court, including the plaintiffs’ assertion that Mr Seidman was discussing a potential sale at the time of the 2017 tender offer.
Mr Seidman’s lawyers have dismissed the lawsuit as “seller’s remorse”, stating that no one was forced to sell their shares and that “the [LRN] board never claimed that the tender offer price was fair”.
@ Spencer:Thank you for your consideration and thoughtful revisions. As you were kind enough to encourage me to make further suggestions, I went through the updates and have a few additional proposed edits that I hope you will consider meritorious:
The following year, in 2019, Seidman, LRN, and two other board members were sued by a former shareholder for breach of their fiduciary duties alleging that shareholders were encouraged to sell their shares at an unfairly low price in 2017 and for not disclosing information regarding a potential transaction to them.
To Mr Seidman’s supporters, the increase in LRN’s value is not a sign of wrongdoing, but a consequence of the growing clamour for corporate ethics initiatives.
The context here is that there was a big uptick that year in business for LRN due to increased awareness of harassment in the workplace in light of the “Me Too” movement. [6] A revised statement might say something like:
Lawyers for Seidman called the lawsuit "seller’s remorse” and others said the growth in LRN’s value was due to greater demand for corporate ethics services. As of October 2020, there had not been a court ruling regarding the allegations.
“At the time, a number of LRN shareholders were looking for a way to liquidate their holdings… LRN used the surplus cash to grant the shareholders their wish, offering to buy them out….”
I appreciate all your conscientious work and openness to engage in a conversation. Wikiqueen32 ( talk) 02:51, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
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![]() | This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
![]() | This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
I have a personal relationship with Dov Seidman, and therefore have a conflict of interest. I am submitting the following proposed changes for independent editors to evaluate, in accordance with the directions at Wikipedia's Contact Us [1] page for the subjects of articles.
1. In the Infobox, in the Children section, PLEASE DELETE
| children = 2. Lev Seidman and Lana Seidman.
and INSTEAD, PLEASE ADD
| children = 2
Note: This is no source for the names of the children. Even if there were one, for privacy reasons I would request Seidman’s children’s names be removed.
AND
for personal website, please delete:
| website =
www
and change it to:
| website =
thehowinstitute
Note: This is a more recent website.
2. In the first paragraph, as the last sentence of the paragraph: PLEASE ADD
He is also the founder and chairman of The HOW Institute for Society. [1] [2]
Note: These sources support that his work at the HOW Institute is now a major part of his career, so should be included.
3. In Section “Career”, in the first paragraph, please add two sentences to paragraph one.
Borrowing money from friends and using credit cards, he launched the Legal Research Network in 1994, to offer outsourced legal research and analysis to corporate law departments and law firms. He raised $2 million from 42 investors. [3]
Reason: accurately sources the beginning of the company. Sources to major newspaper (Wall Street Journal)
Relevant Excerpt Behind ProQuestPaywall:
“He left his job, canceled a clerkship for the Supreme Court of Israel, borrowed money from friends and went into debt on his credit cards. He wrote Zoe Baird, the Aetna general counsel, and outlined his ideas after reading that she was studying ways to cut the company's legal costs. He did the same with a lawyer at MCI, who introduced him to other corporate executives. As the business plan developed, Mr. Seidman lured a well-connected board of directors and advisers, some of whom became investors. They include the dean of University of Southern California law school and former Rep. Mel Levine, now a partner at the Los Angeles law firm Gibson, Dunn &Crutcher. Through a private stock offering completed in April, LRN raised just over $2 million from 42 individual investors.”
4. In Section “Career”, in the first paragraph, please add a third sentence to paragraph one.
By the end of 1999, he transitioned LRN into offering a SaaS-based ethics and compliance education platform becoming one of the first companies in compliance training.. [4] Seidman also had LRN analyze corporate cultures and write codes of conduct. [5]
Reason: Describes the transition the company went under in late 1990s. Sourced to Fortune Magazine and Salt Lake Tribune.
5. In Section “Career”, in the first paragraph, please add a fourth sentence to paragraph one:
In addition to helping companies meet their compliance requirements, Seidman’s work at LRN was focused on advising companies on how to build ethical cultures that operate successfully. [6]
Reason: more accurately describes the transition that LRN underwent from providing research to training on compliance and ethics. Sources to major magazines and newspapers.
6. After the first paragraph, add a second paragraph
Seidman founded The HOW Institute for Society, a non-profit focused on moral leadership, and served as its chairman.. [7] In the How Institute's 2020 the State of Moral Leadership in Business report, Seidman said the global pandemic and political environment had intensified the need for moral leadership. [8]
Reason: Seidman has taken on a new role as chairman of the HOW Institute. The institute is publishing research on moral entrepreneurship.
7. In the Early Life section after the last sentence, which begins “He returned to the United States...”, PLEASE ADD
Seidman’s first business was as a teenager detailing automobiles, including R&B singer Lionel Richie’s cars every Saturday. [9] [10]
Reason: an interesting fact which is part of Seidman’s early life. Not critical but colorful and demonstrative of being an early entrepreneur.
8. As the new last paragraph of “Career”, please add:
In 2022, Seidman became a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. [11]
Reason: Teaching position at Harvard has a Wikipedia page; used a leading foreign publication as source. It covered VP of Phillipines getting same position in same year as Seidman.
Thank you. Wikiqueen32 ( talk) 23:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC) Wikiqueen32 ( talk) 23:00, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
The allegations have yet to be tested in court, including the plaintiffs’ assertion that Mr Seidman was discussing a potential sale at the time of the 2017 tender offer.
Mr Seidman’s lawyers have dismissed the lawsuit as “seller’s remorse”, stating that no one was forced to sell their shares and that “the [LRN] board never claimed that the tender offer price was fair”.
@ Spencer:Thank you for your consideration and thoughtful revisions. As you were kind enough to encourage me to make further suggestions, I went through the updates and have a few additional proposed edits that I hope you will consider meritorious:
The following year, in 2019, Seidman, LRN, and two other board members were sued by a former shareholder for breach of their fiduciary duties alleging that shareholders were encouraged to sell their shares at an unfairly low price in 2017 and for not disclosing information regarding a potential transaction to them.
To Mr Seidman’s supporters, the increase in LRN’s value is not a sign of wrongdoing, but a consequence of the growing clamour for corporate ethics initiatives.
The context here is that there was a big uptick that year in business for LRN due to increased awareness of harassment in the workplace in light of the “Me Too” movement. [6] A revised statement might say something like:
Lawyers for Seidman called the lawsuit "seller’s remorse” and others said the growth in LRN’s value was due to greater demand for corporate ethics services. As of October 2020, there had not been a court ruling regarding the allegations.
“At the time, a number of LRN shareholders were looking for a way to liquidate their holdings… LRN used the surplus cash to grant the shareholders their wish, offering to buy them out….”
I appreciate all your conscientious work and openness to engage in a conversation. Wikiqueen32 ( talk) 02:51, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
References