Friday July 30, 2010
Liz Barron | July 27, 2010

Culture Shocks and Mergers

As employees, executives and board members, we find change both challenging and exciting, which is, after all, only human. In a merger setting, this >>>

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Richard S. Levick | July 26, 2010

Calling All Leaders

The collapse of the powerful Knickerbocker Trust Co. in 1907 triggered a financial panic similar in many ways to today’s economic quicksand. Public >>>

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Judy Warner | July 20, 2010

Beware: The Whistleblowers

Harry Markopolos writes emphatically about the need to compensate corporate whistleblowers in his book, “No One Would Listen.” The independent >>>

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Peter Gleason | July 16, 2010

Behind Proxy Plumbing

Last Wednesday, the SEC announced its decision to review the proxy voting system. This system, referred to by the SEC as “proxy plumbing,” >>>

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Henry Stoever | July 14, 2010

The Cake

I had the pleasure to speak with Mellody Hobson, the president of Ariel Investments, after her opening remarks last week at the  >>>

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Game Changer: NACD and Directorship to Merge

The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) has agreed to acquire Directorship LLC which includes NACD Directorship magazine, www.Directorship.com, the Global Boardroom Forum and the Directorship 100 >>>

Textron Names CEO Donnelly Chairman

Textron named CEO and president Scott Donnelly as chairman. Ametek appointed Anthony J. Conti new director. CGGVeritas named Denis Ranque to the board of directors.

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Concerns, Risks Confronting Boards

With heightened awareness of the need for corporate governance, American boardrooms are immersed in increasingly intense discussions about the issues of risk and compliance. With these new concerns, directors of public companies are under the >>>

Experiment Shows Ill Effect of Incentive Compensation

When I was CEO of the Monsanto Company, I occasionally read business academic journals, but sometimes lost interest because they were often written in opaque “journal speak” or else the subject matter didn’t seem particularly relevant to >>>

New Books for Boards

Peruse any bookstore business section and you’ll find a number of works by authors highlighting the maladies of Wall Street and the destruction of the global economy. With every setback, there are lessons to be learned. Directors and C-suite >>>

NACD Directorship Forum: A Mixture of Angst and Relief

As financial services continue to be at the forefront of public and political criticism, the increase in government regulation is partially welcomed by the least likely source: the banks themselves. "It is a myth that banks resist reform; banks >>>

What You Know Matters, Who You Are Is Essential

The “science” of director selection, analyzing the competencies and experience boards require to accomplish their work, gets a lot of attention. The intensity and importance of the board’s work has accelerated in recent years, pushing boards >>>
As expected, cost cutting has been a key response of most companies to the economic crisis: With revenue growth flat or negative, there hasn’t been much choice. In fact, while more than 70 percent of S&P 500 companies beat earnings >>>

Governance

This session at The Directorship Forum challenged world-class directors and advisors to respond to the unexpected emergency: product recall, Senate committee >>>


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