A Fair deal
Corporate executives wonder whether their company will be the next defendant submerged in asbestos litigation and what their...
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Boardroom archive
How diverse is your board?
Around half the US workforce is female, and their wages are rising. Yet the number of women serving on the boards of US companies...
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Equity and fairness
Compensation committee members are finding themselves at the center of the storm as regulators, exchanges and investors put...
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Trends among transfer agents
Finding a transfer agent whose representatives could recognize – and spell – Kalaniana’ole Highway and other vowel-laden Hawaiian...
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Do the right thing
Q.) What steps can my directors take to protect themselves? A.) According to E Norman Veasey, former chief justice of Delaware and...
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The trillion-dollar pig
They now control $1 tn in assets in the US alone, and they have more than doubled in size in the past two years. Moreover, these...
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Mailing madness
In the proxy mailing process few things are as important as accuracy. ‘More than 17 percent of the population moves every year...
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Rewriting the minutes
‘Because there’s a buzz about how important minutes are, people who draft minutes are paying more attention,’ says Robert Lamm...
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Directors go back to school
‘If you were lucky enough to be on a board with other directors who really knew what they were doing, then you learned well,’ says...
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Testing directors
Most companies just limit evaluations to the overall boardroom assessment required under NYSE listing rules. Understandably, they...
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