Director term limits come up for review.(BOARD PRACTICES)(Cover
story)
Our panel participants tackle some thorny topics concerning board
tenure: How long before directors get stale or too complacent? Are term
limits a necessity or a hindrance to board performance? How . . .
The many (dis)guises of corruption: battling bribery in your
global business practices? Incorporate technology and automation to
THERE'S NO QUESTION today's global economy provides great
opportunity. But it also presents a myriad of new risks as multinational
businesses expand into new and emerging markets. One of the . . .
Tenure of the times.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
I'VE BEEN THINKING a lot about tenure lately. Right after the
first of the year I began editing a 56-page transcript of a panel
discussion on board tenure to adapt it into the cover story for . . .
Penned from Phnom Penh.(LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN)
SITTING IN THE Foreign Correspondents' Club in Phnom Penh, I
began to write my Publisher's Letter. This Christmas my family and
I visited Southeast Asia. The bustling streets and crowded . . .
Directors Roster: a quarterly record of new director
appointments.
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 . . .
Diversify the board ... by personality type! A key to a
high-functioning board is to intentionally bring together people with
di
TYPICALLY, when boards look for new members they primarily consider
an individual's title, industry background, and functional
expertise. They also look to achieve a diversity of gender . . .
Volatile times call for best D & O coverage: dangerous
scenarios can play out, so don't be complacent about your
protection.(RIS
FOR DIRECTORS, the past few years may have been the best of times.
But could the worst of times be lurking just around the corner?
Two independent consulting firms, Cornerstone Research and . . .
Does BBR render CGR and CGI DOA? Or, no matter what the evidence,
is it all CYA?(QUIDDITIES)
ARE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE "indices" valuable ... or
meaningless? Do so-called governance "best practices" lead to
better corporate performance ... or are they not worth a John Nance
Garner bucketful . . .
Balancing acts: for directors, the virtue of independence should
be leavened with the strengths of industry knowledge and
experi
THE CURRENT DIALOGUE on directors' roles has largely focused
on the value of independence, particularly for public company directors,
who are seen as the protectors of the stockholders' . . .
Company index.(DIRECTORS ROSTER)
Accelrys Inc.
Allete Inc.
Ampex Corp.
Applied Materials Inc.
Applied Signal Technology Inc.
Arbitron Inc.
Avery Dennison Corp.
Blyth Inc.
Boston Private Financial Holdings
Caribou . . .
Good grief! What's with the SEC and exec pay? This
government is continuing to insert itself unwisely in boards'
confidential de
THE SEC IS FORCING a sampling of 350 public companies to more
specifically disclose the compensation, benchmarking, and forecasting
decisions of their boards and compensation committees. This . . .
Inadvertent disclosure: the Ryan case is a reminder of the need
for board policies on the handling and communicating of privileg
THERE HAS BEEN a steady increase in litigation over conflicts of
interest and allegations of wrongdoing involving officers and directors
of public companies. In addition, there certainly is greater . . .
Face the music.(LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN)
BRACED FOR ANOTHER HARANGUE from an itinerant corporate gadfly, my
fellow directors were surprised when he lauded the board at our annual
shareholders' meeting this winter. Although he began by . . .
On power and empowerment: share your power while you have it,
because it's going to go away.(ENDNOTE)(Reprint)
GENUINE POWER PLAYERS work for a larger cause than consolidating
their own power They empower others.
Sharing your power does not mean diluting it or abdicating your
responsibilities. When Kraft . . .
The verdict on SOX: full adjustment; As the Sarbanes-Oxley era
marches on, veteran board counselors Richard Beattie and John Fin
FOR ALMOST four decades, Richard Beattie has been an integral,
behind-the-scenes player in of some of Corporate America's most
significant boardroom dealings. As a longtime partner, and now . . .
Earnings guidance: the real issue; The current debate focuses on
the wrong question.(COMPETITIVE EDGE)
THERE IS A long-running argument about whether or not companies
should provide earnings guidance. The media has produced an endless
string of articles and opinion columns. Academics have churned . . .
Who could've known? Directors cannot predict the strange
things that happen to every business. What they do is guide the
reactio
'DOES THE BOARD adequately consider unknown threats to the
business?"
There's a stupid question.
Our blue-chip law firm asks this in the questionnaire each director
fills out annually as part . . .
A prime target: a personal rebellion against
'think-alike' boards motivated the founding of Directors &
Boards.(ENDNOTE)(Excerpt
Ed. Note: Stanley Foster Reed, founder of DIRECTORS & BOARDS,
died on Oct. 25, 2007, at the age of 90 (see tribute by his daughter,
Alexandra Reed Lajoux, on page 28.) The following article is from . . .
Director index.(DIRECTORS ROSTER)
Alexander, Mark A., Kaydon Corp.
Armitage, Carol, Windstream Corp.
Bailar, Gregor S., Corporate Executive Board Co.
Benson, James M., Sapient Corp.
Blackwell, Robert J., Intelli-Check Inc.
. . .
Book it: best bets for board reading; From a roundup of new
books, leadership insights on hiring smartly, succeeding at successi
The 'boa' we all wrestle with
From What Really Matters by John Pepper. Copyright 2005, 2007 by
Procter & Gamble. Published by Caravan, Yale University Press
(www.caravanbooks.org).
LIVING . . .
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