Vol. 37 No. 4, June 2013
Index
- Board portals: value added?
- Shareholder Spring.
- The competitive lever of strong boards and good governance: today, more than ever, we need a firm set of hands at the helm of our organizations. So, do we have the right rules in place for governing the corporation? Are we selecting the right people? And are our boards structured for maximum positive impact?
- Have we taken independence a step too far? It is plausible that the mandate for director independence is overdone. Here's where we may have gone wrong.
- What should we expect from aboard?
- The eclipse of a classic board: despite impressive people, policies and performance, the AIG board did not pass muster with the new regulatory regime and governance gurus. A case of power shifting, relationships fraying, and the traditionally supportive model collapsing.
- Political spending: big risk for boards: directors' responsibility for protecting companies must embrace meaningful oversight of direct and indirect political spending.
- The year in governance: it was a full agenda for activists, regulators, and reformers--and the boards that had to react to them. A month-by-month timeline of year 2012 and the people, companies, organizations, initiatives and events that kept corporate governance in the headlines and on the move.
- The interdependence of independence.
- Need global D&O protection? A growing number of choices are available.
- Governance book of the year: Lynn Stout's the shareholder value myth.
- One myth dies and another is stillborn.
- The myth of governing for shareholder value.
- 2013 survey: oversight of company-sponsored retirement programs: a mercer and Directors & Boards collaboration concludes that these programs are requiring ever-greater scrutiny by board members.
- Survey methodology and demographics.
- Boards and the permanent revolution in governance: the real story over the next decade will be how boards respond to these five ever-rising challenges.
- Who's on board 2012: the Directors Roster annual review of newly elected board members.
- 2012 article index: these were the hot issues and the top of the agenda topics that Directors & Boards authors addressed this past year.
- A shareholder writes.