Thursday May 17, 2012
Bob Gariano | May 15, 2012

Corporate Board Service

Why should talented executives serve on company boards? To answer this question, I must tell a seemingly diversionary story. I have been called twice >>>

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Jeff Cunningham | May 4, 2012

She’s Done It All—Then More

Sandra Day O’Connor—the Stanford-trained lawyer who became the Arizona State Senate majority leader before being named the first female member of >>>

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Corporate Law: It Matters

Establishing and maintaining proper corporate governance structures and compliance programs has always been fundamental to business strategy; >>>

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James R. Gregory | April 26, 2012

Brand Must Answer to a Higher Power

Corporate brand campaigns are a highly efficient tool for value creation but very few CEOs use brand effectively because they don’t understand how >>>

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Christopher Y. Clark | April 24, 2012

Legal Momentum: Fraser Aims High

Six months before Jane Fraser took charge of Citi Private Bank in 2009, Citi had shaken up its wealth management arm with the 51 percent sale of >>>

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Update on Proxy Access, Say on Pay and Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Welcome to Washington, a town where at any given moment: Congress may pass a law, an agency may issue a rule or a judge may deliver a verdict. Each time, we might think the story is over. But directors know that when it comes to policy, it ain’t >>>

Adobe Appoints Three Directors

Adobe Systems has expanded its board to 12 members with the addition of Comcast Senior Vice President Amy Banse, Cisco CFO Frank Calderoni and Starcom MediaVest Group global CEO. Vincent H. Tobkin has joined the Radisys board of directors.

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Aligning Interests: Power of ‘Skin-in-the-Game’ Executive Warrants

Corporations, via their boards of directors, have adopted a myriad of measures over the years to help ensure that the interests of senior executives and shareholders are aligned. While the use of stock-based awards, such as >>>

Boards Value Battlefield Experience

Lockheed Martin CEO and Chairman Robert J. Stevens has announced he will retire from his CEO position at the end of this year. Throughout Stevens' more than 12 years of experience in the company's executive office, he has worked closely >>>

Increasing Diversity in the Boardroom

With the topic of “diversity” at the top of many boardroom agendas, the National Association of Corporate Directors has made diversity a focus this year with a series of >>>

What Better Directors Do

There is a lot of good advice available for boards of directors about how to become more effective. The problem is, most of it is directed to the board as a group. To date, there has been very little guidance available for individual >>>

Special Litigation Committees: Best Practices

A corporation confronted with a derivative lawsuit, which involves claims brought by shareholders purportedly acting on the corporation’s behalf, has several options at its disposal. One option is to form a special litigation committee (SLC) to >>>
With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 nearly 10 years ago, the responsibilities and roles of the audit committee and independent auditors changed dramatically. Under the Act, it is the audit committee’s responsibility to oversee the >>>

Steven Hall & Partners' Sandra Pace provides a full not-for-profit compensation outlook for directors.

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