Vol. 35 No. 5, September - September 2011
Index
- 'You don't call anymore'.
- A new high mark.
- Truth in labeling? The 'independent director' tag doesn't tell us much.
- Needed: a good dose of CEO leadership: as Congress dithers, corporate leaders must step in. Here is what they could he doing.
- Separation anxiety: in many situations, it may be far from clear whether the roles of CEO and chair should be filled by different persons.
- Managing expectations in an IPO: there are sensitive, and subtle, issues that the compensation committee will need to anticipate.
- Whistleblower rules: Impact on insurance: there may be a greatly increased focus on internal investigations, and therefore an increase in legal costs.
- What are your core principles? By defining and adopting them, a board raises the level of its capability to focus on the big picture.
- The next big thing: finally, a governance initiative that has some consequence for shareholder wealth.
- Zeal must be tempered by a culture of integrity: a lesson manifested in the company of Bill Salomon.
- The power of three: three women on a hoard, that is. Five prominent women corporate directors analyze the 'female factor in a board's success. Says one: 'We survive by our wit and our grit.'.
- Susan Ivey made it happen for women.
- The path to the boardroom.
- A women on boards goalsetter.
- The Directors and Boards Survey: CEO and director compensation 2011: there has been some catch-up CEO pay, and say on pay in having limited impact on a board's approach to executive compensation.
- Compensation committee checklist: The fall agenda: begin framing your 2012 proxy statements now ... and take other key action steps.
- What is a CEO worth? Don't look to peers: peer group comparisons skew the board's determination of a CEO's intrinsic value. A new performance metric is required--and we have conceptualized what that should be.
- A CEO's lament: the dastardly scoreboard.
- 'How do I explain that to my wife?'.
- Peer groups: clear drawbacks, but the jury is still out.
- An attractive alternative to a peer index.
- Anne Mulcahy: It's all about staying focused.
- Not one share do you hand over.
- Mom's encouragement spurred Larry Bossidy.
- The collective power of small groups.
- Activism and the concept of counterintuitiveness.
- Governance in all its 'simplicity'.
- Thomas Jefferson's debt-reduction plan.
- Time for a reset.
- Bringing 'Asia' onto the board: finding the right candidate presents some familiar, and not-so-familiar, director-recruiting challenges.
- Directors Roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments.
- Donald Rumsfeld, the corporate boardroom days.
- Academics on boards--let's debunk some myths.
- Tribute to Geraldine Ferraro, businesswoman.
- Keith Williams: the UL board as adviser, partner, demanding boss.
- Gary McMillan: a little luck, a lot of the right experience.
- All boards need a self-renewal plan.
- The 'known quantity' factor in finding new directors.
- When chairmen came courting Condoleezza Rice.
- Company index.
- Director index.
- The Directors Roster.
- 'Your head has to be up, not down': a good tip for chairmen on being more effective in leading their hoards.