Director matchmaking
In May, the Nasdaq Stock Market launched Board Recruiting (www.boardrecruiting.com), a new service aimed at public and private...
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Boardroom archive
A five-step framework
The perfect storm of option-accounting began in 2002 with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Once the floodgates were open, a number of other...
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The fine line for UK activists
In May, the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) issued advice in its 'Market Watch' newsletter about shareholder activism...
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All change
Now’s a busy time for corporate secretaries in the UK, or company secretaries as they’re known across the pond. For the first time...
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Tokyo calling
Just as scandals at Enron and Worldcom gave rise to the governance reforms of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, fraud at Japanese companies...
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Mediation and the SEC
The SEC had to do a bit of fire-fighting in late spring as a Wall Street Journal story smoked out the topic of arbitration as a...
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A modest proposal? Speak for yourself
It’s not a pretty picture. Especially not when you are looking at shareholder voting from your executive perch in Corporate...
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Minutes of Integrity
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s an old adage, but often old sayings are the most accurate. This certainly appears to be...
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Failure to communicate
Investors aren’t happy, and company leaders are feeling the effects. Over the past two years one CEO after another left companies...
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Protecting the messenger
Retaliation against company employees who bring inappropriate or illegal action to light has long been a problem. With the...
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