Vol. 29 No. 3, March 2005
Index
- The proverbial beer truck.
- Job one.
- Caught in the Webb: just the facts, ma'am--to be read with care.
- On bailing out from a board: when the reasons to resign are compelling, just do it--walk away.
- Do independent directors need IDL coverage? A look at independent director liability insurance and the added protection it offers.
- When should you call separate counsel? Not often, because the board should be able to rely in full confidence on the company's general counsel.
- No need to pay guaranteed bonuses: other less-suspect alternatives can achieve the desired recruitment and retention objectives.
- The first duty of a director: wisdom from Walter Wriston, a master banker and board leader.
- Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out.
- Create a new story about business: we have a unique moment to make a lasting difference in corporate practice. This is a moment we must seize.
- Nine ways to handle a boardroom bully: forceful personalities on the board can steer an organization down a destructive path. Here's how to take on that 'bad boy' or 'bad girl'.
- What a board needs from its general counsel: in order to make a positive contribution toward excellence in governance, corporate counsel must be a teacher, a mentor, and more.
- Director's guide to board, committee, and personal counsel: as boards become more proactive, their use of outside legal advisers--a 'legal second opinion'--is on the rise.
- The workout board member: why every company should have a turnaround expert on its board.
- Compensation: being more 'on message'; Transform the tenor of your executive compensation disclosure from 'mandatory and mystery' to 'meaning and message.'.
- How a candidate made the cut: this step-by-step board-recruiting process turned up a new compensation committee chair.
- EHS oversight: what's wrong with this picture? Most European companies are vitally concerned at the board level about environmental health and safety issues. Why aren't boards of U.S. companies equally as concerned?
- Board guidance for going private: five critical debating points for boards with an ESOP transaction on the agenda.
- Put the 'fair' in fairness opinions: avoiding conflicts of interest will increase the likelihood that a fairness opinion provides adequate protection for directors.
- Advice to new CEOs: get the board on board; Effective bridge-building techniques to help a new CEO establish a productive working relationship with the board.
- Directors roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments sponsored by Spencer Stuart.
- Company index.
- Director index.
- From a whisper to a firestorm: how ready are you to respond to the revenge-laced rhetoric promoted by activist organizations and shareholder-revolt leaders?