Vol. 37 No. 2, January - January 2013
Index
- Many happy returns.
- Talent for the times.
- Conference agenda.
- Private Company Governance Summit 2013: confirmed speakers.
- Conference location and hotel.
- Who should attend.
- Your conference hosts.
- No litmus test: the superficiality of considering the chairman-CEO split as 'best practice.'.
- Social media: the gorilla in the boardroom: my advice regarding social networks: be more worried about their pitfalls than you are bullish on their opportunities.
- Director resignation and fiduciary duties: a court decision raises questions about when directors cannot resign--i.e., 'run away' from problems.
- Audit committee priorities for 2013: KPMG's annual spotlight on what should be top of mind and top of agenda for audit committee members.
- ZPIC audits: another government weapon: boards of healthcare organizations risk heightened exposure in the war being waged against abuse and fraud.
- Recruiting the digital director: how to find them ... attract them ... and get value from them.
- Digital directors can be the deciding factor: why boards need them, and what they look for when recruiting members with digital and social media expertise.
- A DD checklist for the nominating committee: if adding a digital director is a powerful way of increasing the digital competency of a board, doing so successfully requires forethought and planning.
- Digital expertise comes in many forms: proceed with caution, and think beyond the board.
- Digital director spotlight: Alex Schmelkin: 'corporate boards that lack leaders who are fluent in digital media are doing their shareholders a disservice.'.
- Bring your board into the digital era: go young--the likely candidate pool for this digital infusion is largely under 40--and other tips for recruiting this new generation of board candidates.
- A new model of director has arrived: a benefit of the digital director is their potential to act as a 'disruptor' and change how a board thinks.
- Have you addressed the nuances of your digital director needs?
- Digital director spotlight: Ellen Siminoff: 'pretty much everybody who has approached me to join a board is looking for someone who has digital expertise.'.
- Lead or be left behind: a chairman's perspective on social media.
- How boards can avoid a social media mishap.
- Boards and social media, from a director's perspective.
- The directors & boards report: 2013 annual meeting survey: the annual meeting is rated a ho-hum tool for exercising shareholder relations and corporate democracy. An opportunity for digital technologies to come to its rescue?
- The special litigation committee: special handling required: the SLC is a powerful tool for boards in dealing with shareholder derivative litigation. But the committee's work is highly complex and carries significant risk if not conducted properly.
- The core work of the SLC's investigation.
- Preparing the SLC's report.
- A Chinese JV means big work for the board: given the likely importance of China to the company's future, the board has an important role to play in ensuring a joint venture's success. Here are the decisive pressure points.
- 'Their' meeting, not 'your' meeting.
- It's up to the CEO to say, 'Let's go do this'.
- Are you 'trustable'?
- Six strategy traps.
- Power must go to those who are paid last.
- The executive pay model--yes, it works.
- Leading the family controlled company: here are three management and governance issues that family-member CEOs and independent CEOs alike have identified as crucial for their success.
- Directors roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments.
- 'Flatlined': a year of no change.
- BCDC: a force for empowering black directors.
- Peter Georgescu: revisiting a painful past for a deeply personal exploration of good vs. evil.
- In the Garden, with the Serpent: the importance of careful choices.
- Midcap companies bump up their board pay.
- Cyber breach: one of the most challenging and complicated issues a board can face.
- Dawning of the digital director: boards needed them when they went through a data information revolution before.