The director merry-go-round
Os are still getting the axe, and lots of them. By Booz Allen Hamilton’s count of 2,500 global corporations, 14.3 percent of CEOs...
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Boardroom archive
Democracy for sale
As the proxy season pendulum swings in favor of majority voting, shareholder activism and access, memories of landslide director...
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Accessing the future
Whether you view the SEC’s new ‘notice and access’ rule as terrific or just one more confusing possibility amidst a rapidly...
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Glass houses
Activist investing is now commonplace. Aided by regulatory advances and a changing attitude to ownership rights, shareholders are...
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Is plain English too hard to understand?
Writing this column is a bit like being caught in a time warp in an episode of Star Trek. You’ll be reading it in August, even...
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Fifth anniversary
There has been no shortage of significant milestones in the world of corporate governance and compliance since the dramatic and...
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Getting on the same page
It has been a long time coming but it appears as though the SEC may have finally coordinated its Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404...
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Breaking the broker vote
In response to the heated debate generated by the NYSE’s proposal to eliminate broker voting for uncontested director elections...
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Open to discussion
In late May, the Lotos Club in Manhattan hosted the third Corporate Secretary East Coast Think Tank, where speakers and...
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new era of privilege
Corporate Secretary magazine has partnered with Foley & Lardner to produce a series of webcasts that will continue throughout the...
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