Nearly three-quarters of the directors responding to the National Association of Corporate Directors' latest corporate governance survey say that ...
Driving sustainable business practices in companies requires involvement from boards of directors . And there is some evidence that sustainability is ...
In the last two decades we have witnessed many large-scale corporate scandals ... monitoring bodies, and improved corporate governance practices...
After years of asking corporate directors about the importance of diversity in ... in cooperation with Stanford's Rock Center for Corporate Governance , ...
When asked why companies don't talk more about the long term, CEOs ... risks and opportunities, corporate governance , corporate purpose, human ...
However, Germany relies on a specific corporate governance model which is not ... Corporate governance is just one part of a “package” of economic ...
... GE's long and steep decline, where was the company's board of directors ? ... GE's board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance ...
The board of directors of a public company has a long list of oversight responsibilities, but it is not always the case that directors receive the ...
To estimate the effect of a CEO's social network's diversity on their firm's value, we used ordinary least square regression models to control for other variables that could potentially change firm value, such as firm size, profitability, financial leverage, investment intensity, and corporate governance .
These techniques are rapidly changing many industries — could they also improve corporate governance ? To explore that question, we conducted a study of how machine learning might be used to select board directors, and how the selected directors might differ from those selected by management.
Mary Barra, Meg Whitman, Indra Nooyi: These are just three of the women who have successfully broken through the notorious “glass ceiling” to become CEOs of large public firms. Although women are still underrepresented at the top of corporations, there is growing interest in understanding whether ...
With a typical CEO of an S&P 500 company earning $11 million in total ... is significantly tighter and more competitive than governance experts might ...
Remarkably, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embraced shareholder activism, in a bid to encourage the adoption of his corporate governance reforms, ...
The public corporation is typically bedeviled by the gap between managers' and shareholders' interests. Over the years, governance has attempted to ...
Certification revealed that the company could benefit from HR/ governance improvements, such as a global code of employee conduct and new ...
Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S. companies, the ... them to oversee governance and other matters of shareholder concern?
Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. In fact, the largest number of shareholder resolutions filed by investors — the method through which activists work — now concern social and environmental issues ...
Why would a busy executive agree to sit on a board? Why is there is a cottage industry of executive search firms focusing on “reverse board searches,” where they proactively work to place executives on outside corporate boards? What do executives gain from ...
Boards aren’t working. It’s been more than a decade since the first wave of post-Enron regulatory reforms, and despite a host of guidelines from independent watchdogs such as the International Corporate Governance Network, most boards aren’t delivering on their core mission: providing strong oversight and strategic support for management’s efforts to create long-term value. This isn’t just our opinion. Directors also believe boards are falling short, our research suggests...
Many senior managers desire — and are qualified — to join a board. And many companies around the world would greatly benefit from infusions of fresh talent and insight into their boards. Yet all too often board positions go to people who are already serving on other boards. So how can you, a promising potential new director, realize your aspiration...
Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. They are, after all, the company's steadfast guidance system, charged with keeping an even keel in rough waters. Corporate directors are the flywheel, the keeper of the flame, the preserver of ...
Bulls in a china shop—or catalysts for change? The divides created when activist investors muscle their way onto boards as varied as those of Hewlett-Packard, J. C. Penny, and Yahoo can run as deep as those on Capitol Hill. Has Ralph Whitworth of Relational Investors restored shareholder value at HP? Did William A. Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management destroy value at J.C. Penney? Has Daniel Loeb of Third Point rebuilt value at Yahoo...
