Promoted to the limelight
Anxious to help restore the post-Enron breach of trust, stand-alone corporate committees devoted to exemplary governance certainly...
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Gambling on governance
Good governance certainly comes at a premium. The cost of complying with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley is, as we are learning, no...
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Eliot Spitzer: friend or foe
US Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue lambasted Spitzer in early July, saying the attorney general had exceeded his...
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Boardroom dynamics
As such, corporate secretaries have spent much of the last few years making sure their boards meet the requirements for...
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Guiding e-discovery
Issued in March 2003, the principles were authored by the working group of the Sedona Conference, a confederation of private...
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The blob meets the incredible shrinking man
There aren’t enough directors to go around. Demand for directors, especially independents, is growing like the monster in the...
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Inside Nasdaq
The Nasdaq stock market is known worldwide as the leading market for trading tech stocks. But the New York-based electronic stock...
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Fine line between audit and non-audit
In the thick of last year’s proxy season, Calpers told its portfolio companies – some 3,000 firms – that it would oppose the...
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Agent of change
It has been said people are necessary to bring about change, and institutions to make change take root. David Beatty is taking no...
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Meeting success head-on
All successful annual general meetings resemble each other – and each botched one is a disaster in its own way. In an investment...
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