Vol. 41 No. 1, December - December 2016
Index
- Diversity of thought.
- CEO: 'jump' board: 'how high?'.
- Corporate governance is personal: directors should make a complex decision as if they were facing a similar situation in their own business affairs or those of another close family member.
- Prevention is key to crisis readiness: while there is rarely a perfect response, you can better position yourself to manage a crisis effectively.
- Past is prelude in the boardroom.
- Put an economist on your board: having them throw cold water on unrealistic forecasts and on bad strategy ideas are just two ways shareholders could benefit.
- Is your board ready for an activist investor?
- The best directors ... and how they become the best: my 10 principles for success in your role as a board director.
- Why I founded directors & boards.
- Forty years of corporate governance: what we have today is nearly unrecognizable from that of 1976.
- What is ahead for boards?
- As demands on boards grow, how are directors responding?
- The top five questions boards of directors should ask.
- Lifting the curtain on the boardroom: one of the most dramatic aspects of the new board transparency and board accountability is a better understanding of how boards work.
- Investor and company partnership is key to success.
- What exactly is a director supposed to be doing?
- Present at the creation: a new era of transparency: the GM corporate governance guidelines that I helped develop were rightly called a Magna Carta for directors.
- The next big thing? Dealing with the new (political) economics.
- What is the next big thing for boards?
- What's next for boards? Coping with the 'instant of everything'.
- Digital technology expertise at the board table is a must: why no company board can afford to be without it in 2017.
- Welcome to the board: 40 new directors in their 40s.
- The academic view of boards: it's in the understanding that boards are 'systems' and studying them as such that has yielded important knowledge of how boards function.
- Recruiting directors--now vs. then.
- 8 positive trends that are transforming boards: boards are more aware than ever of their duty to create value for their shareholders.
- Trends in board recruitment: board diversity, now including generational diversity, will continue to be high on the director recruitment agenda.
- Three ways to start building board diversity.
- Once they were giants: a remembrance of 40 authors who were governance thought leaders, major corporate chief executives, and other dynamos of the board world.
- Forty celebrities who served as corporate directors: from Cary Grant to Oprah Winfrey, some boldfaced names familiar on the big and little screens, in sports stadiums and other prominent venues--and on company boards.
- How exceptional boards accelerate the contributions of new directors.
- Directors roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments.
- Why I joined the Enron board.
- Principles to govern by.
- A boardroom enigma.
- Boards of a different breed.
- A letter to a shareholder on board diversity.
- Director education is underestimated.
- Yes, you can, and should, have fun being a corporate director. Alas, few fiduciaries have any fun while they 'fiduce.'.