Language Matters
I spend the majority of my day reading, interpreting and discussing directors and officers’ (D&O) liability insurance policies. In...
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Boardroom archive
The M&A problem
Board directors are being forced to take on new responsibilities at every turn. Nowhere is this more the case than in the world of...
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A little more conversation
Given that widespread failure in risk oversight led in part to the global financial collapse, risk management is garnering new...
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Follow the leader
During Foley & Lardner’s National Directors Institute, the ‘Board and management succession planning’ webinar proved a lighthouse...
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Networking: the Swiss army knife of life
The last 12 months or so have been downright ugly. We’re talking Aunt Matilda-ugly, and you can’t begin to conceive how ugly my...
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Learning from past mistakes
Sometimes a shake-up is just what a company needs to shape up. Take Siemens, the Munich-based global electronics company that was...
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Rewriting the book
Change is one of the few constants in the world of business. When it comes to technology, US companies have become famous for...
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Security divide
When PricewaterhouseCoopers surveyed executives last year, asking them, among other things, what the primary driver of corporate...
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Human capital
Identifying and employing the best corporate directors and senior executives is an extremely difficult task, and one that is only...
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Fiction becomes fact
It sounds like the plot of a science fiction film: intelligent robots wreaking havoc while executives quiver beneath their sheets...
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