Vol. 41 No. 2, January - January 2017
Index
- Thank you.
- What I learned.
- Director independence after Zynga: The second case in little over a year expands the grounds on which a director's independence may be challenged.
- On the 2017 audit committee agenda: There are several important matters that committee members need to keep in mind.
- Considerations in issuing retention grants: As useful as such grants can be in some situations, they should be approached with skepticism.
- Essentials for the board-CFO relationship: Here is a set of questions boards can use to explore and define the attributes they might want from a CFO.
- Danger: board of director overreach: the push for 'expert-directors' could lead to decreasing trust and increasing dysfunction between the board and the management team.
- Keeping your board relevant in 2017: boards must consider, advocate for, and support new approaches to strategy.
- Are expectations on board members too high: most directors think so?
- Confused expectations: to demand more from boards than they can provide will surely be counterproductive.
- Top 10 topics for directors in 2017.
- You can't know it all: why directors have such difficulty understanding their companies.
- CEO onboarding: the board's missed opportunity: five ways the board can improve its 'launching' of a new CEO.
- Why you need a chief digital officer.
- Getting real about what it takes to secure a board seat: three highly accomplished corporate board members share insights from the trenches.
- Women in the boardroom: how far we have come ... how far we still need to go: WCD--from a dining room table to a global network.
- Getting to the head of the table.
- Climate change and the corporate board: Too hot not to handle?
- Panel on climate risk: Its real, it's material, it's a board issue.
- Making the best deal in 2017: What has changed that all boards need to consider in selecting an M&A advisor.
- The Chairman: Who's in charge around here? Simply put, this is where the 'buck' stops for a board to achieve its fullest potential..
- There should be no desire for the CEO role.
- Should an activist be allowed to address the board? Keep your friends close and your activists closer.
- M&A, activism and shareholder dynamics--what has changed and what's ahead? Activists have been added to boards of 224 public companies since 2015.
- 'Civility isn't always the case in the boardroom'.
- The default plan can change.
- 'They can't get away from us!'.
- Advice to CEOs: Talk, and talk some more.
- Think, plan, and act like an insurgent.
- Key questions for your expanding oversight.
- What a difference take two was.
- Five risk-related concerns boards and CEOs must manage in 2017: In this brave new world the challenge for companies is enormous, the possibilities are nearly limitless, and the risk of being marginalized is high.
- Directors roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments.
- You try to do the right thing.
- 'Fight them as hard as you can': interview with Charles Wohlstetter.
- How boards get into big trouble.
- The 'untoward' things that can happen.
- Why put arbitrary limits on a good director?
- How to build a successful company.
- Stories that served me well.
- 35 for 35: pearls of governance wisdom and years of service, that is.