The best advice I ever gave a board: following on the choice
counsel offered by past authors, a few just-surveyed directors and
Run the company, not the stock
THE BEST ADVICE I ever gave any board has never been accepted. I
believe strongly that boards should prohibit CEOs and CFOs from giving
"earnings guidance"--that . . .
A bit of history, a lot of advice.(Editorial)
A CHALLENGE EVERY EDITOR FACES is what to do about anniversary
issues. We want to make them special for the reader, for the advertiser,
and, yes, for all the individuals--from the owner to the . . .
Company index.(DIRECTORS ROSTER)
Accuride Corp.
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Allete Inc.
American Financial Realty Trust
American Technology Corp.
AmerisourceBergen Corp.
Ametek Inc.
Apollo Investment Corp.
Applebee's . . .
Four tough questions about real estate: in an era of deeper
engagement, look for real estate oversight to occupy more space on t
BOARDS REGULARLY REVIEW major real estate transactions. Too often
they are presented with a set of facts and projections that may be
difficult to analyze if they don't have prior experience . . .
Enrich your strategic mind.(STRATEGY)
I have found that law school prepared me substantially better for
business than graduate business school did. The study of law forces you
to dig deeply in the well of information and fully discern . . .
Sayings of chairman milt: the publisher who led Directors &
Boards into the activist and M & A-fueled decade of the 1980s always
DR. MILTON L. ROCK, armed with psychology degrees from Temple
University and the University of Rochester, joined Edward N. Hay &
Associates in 1949. It was a one-office firm founded in 1943 . . .
Directors & Boards celebrates 30 years: the journal was
founded during a tumultuous period for corporate governance and three
de
1976
Directors & Boards is founded by business consultant and
publishing entrepreneur Stanley Foster Reed to be the thought leadership
journal in corporate governance. The U.S. business world is . . .
Director index.
Addison, Jimmy, SCBT Financial Corp.
Ahlmann, Kaj, SCPIE Holdings Inc.
Anathan, Mone, Factory Card & Party Outlet Corp.
Anton, Arthur, Sherwin-Williams Co.
Aretakis, Nicholas, QuickLogic . . .
Director's guide: personal wealth management; Tips,
strategies, and tactics for directors interested in managing and growing
the
Working with professional money managers
AFTER FINDING HIMSELF suddenly liquid after the sale of his
business, a member of the Institute for Private Investors described a
feeling akin to vertigo. . . .
Spinoffs: how to build just the right board; How many new CEOs
have the chance to put together their own board of directors? And
A SPINOFF OR SPLITOFF from the parent corporation is a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a public company management team to
start with a blank sheet of paper and build a board that will . . .
Board chairmen I have known ... and what I have learned from
them.(LEADERSHIP)(Personal account)
OVER THE YEARS, I have known many board chairmen of large and small
companies, and have thought a good deal about the nature of both their
business and personal lives. I have admired many of them . . .
That was then ... this is now: what progress has been made in
corporate governance over the past three decades? To find out, we
Improvement, yes, but dangers lurk
Ed. Note: Roderick M. Hills was chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Commission when DIRECTORS & BOARDS was founded in 1976. He
has been a leading advocate . . .
A merger master's playbook: there is a time to buy and a
time to sell, and always a time to do right for the
shareholders.(ENDNO
Ed Note: J.B. Fuqua (1918-2006) built a small manufacturer of
bricks into a multibillion-dollar collection of businesses known as
Fuqua Industries. This self-made entrepreneur who never went to . . .
Succession: reaching in, reaching down, reaching out; Boards are
taking a new approach to succession management to provide the r
THE BOARD OF A major financial services firm faced a dilemma.
Directors had begun working with the CEO on his succession well in
advance of his planned retirement and were reasonably comfortable . . .
Director pay: what makes sense today; Compensation received
should reflect the work done. Here is a model for the new corporate
OUTSIDE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION has increased significantly over the
last few years in response to increased visibility and accountability
around the directors' role in safeguarding shareholders. . . .
Your tip sheet for being a successful director.
What does it take to succeed in the boardroom? These leaders have
shared plenty of advice in the pages of DIRECTORS & BOARDS over the
past 30 years. Read on for their wisdom of the ages.
AUDITING . . .
Enduring principles.(LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN)
FOR THREE DECADES the mission of DIRECTORS & BOARDS has stayed
the same: to be the "thought leader" in the evolving field of
corporate governance. We inform and motivate directors to perform . . .
Directors Roster: a quarterly record of new director
appointments.(Cousins Properties Inc. has appointed William B. Harrison
Jr
THE DIRECTORS & BOARDS Directors Roster--a quarterly record of
new director appointments--is compiled from public and private sources
by the editorial staff of DIRECTORS & BOARDS, and is sponsored . . .
'Blood is thicker than EPS': how to excel as a board
member of a family-owned company.(PRIVATE COMPANY BOARDS)
OVER THE PAST FIVE DECADES I've had the privilege of serving
on the boards of four very different family-owned and -operated
companies. In fact, I started my career in the mid-1950s working for . . .
Feeding a board's 'appetite for strategy': how to
get a board more engaged in strategy development? Three critical success
facto
MUCH OF THE GOVERNANCE FOCUS in the first half-decade of the 21st
century has been on compliance and the board's fiduciary
responsibility to protect shareholders from financial fraud. More
quietly, . . .
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