Great expectations
Activist investors, especially hedge funds, have an obsession with corporate boards. More and more, they say they want a seat at...
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Boardroom archive
Making history, one word at a time
Many years ago, one of my student vacation jobs was to bag and burn the shelves of yellowing paper cluttering up the cellars of an...
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Creating the perfect director
Heinz’s historic ‘57 Varieties’ slogan stressed the breadth of its product line, but the company liked just one approach for its...
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Planning for the golden years
Let’s get the statistical shocker out of the way. Only about half of companies that should have a CEO succession plan in place do...
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The expanding world of XBRL
Having trouble sleeping? Here are four words that might help to get you snoozing: eXtensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL...
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Changing of the Guard
Can glass once broken be reassembled? That is the question that is keeping executives up late in San Francisco, where proxy...
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Trouble on the horizon
When the SEC talks, corporations had better listen, but one message many companies seem to be missing lately is 10b5-1 plans that...
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Rules of engagement
Last December’s changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure drastically reinterpreted the discovery and handling of electronic...
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Across state lines
One of the most vexing problems a company can face is a multi-jurisdictional investigation. This was exactly the topic of the most...
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ARMA review
Records managers are reeling from constant changes in technology and the resultant vortex of online information. In addition to...
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