CEOs

With All the Brains in the Room

With All the Brains in the Room — That’s how real value is created in corporate governance, not by making…

9 months ago

Proxy Power and Proposal Abuse: Reforming Rule 14a-8 to Protect Shareholder Value

Proxy Power and How to Squash the Voice of Shareholders would have been a better title for the September 10,…

12 months ago

Employee Ownership: Comments on SEC HCM Petitions

        Employee ownership has a huge potential to improve firm performance, reduce layoffs, improve employee compensation and…

4 years ago

BRT’s Stakeholder Capitalism

BRT's Stakeholder Capitalism Exposed Lucian Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita recently published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, ‘Stakeholder’ Capitalism Seems Mostly for…

6 years ago

CEO Compensation was a Joke Before Covid-19

CEO Compensation was a Joke Before Covid-19, Now It is Just Obnoxious In an era of sacrifice, risk, and despair…

6 years ago

Sock Puppets for Proxy Advisory Rule

Sock puppets are trying to generate another round of astro-turf comment letters to the SEC. Proxy advisors do NOT file…

7 years ago

Compensation: The Difference it Makes

Compensation:  The Difference it Makes Compensation. Most Americans think CEOs of the 500 largest publicly traded corporations are overpaid, even…

8 years ago

Gordon Gekko and Governing Small-Caps: Greed Works

Few who have seen it can forget the iconic scene from the movie Wall Street when Michael Douglas’s character Gordon…

11 years ago

Small Gains by Women in California Companies

Women in California companies continue to make slight progress. More of California's largest 400 public companies public companies than ever…

11 years ago

The Power of Shame Applied to CEOs and Corporations

Robert A.G. Monks, concerned with shameful corporate behavior today blogged When a Child Rules the Parent: The Problem of Corporate…

11 years ago

Wayback: Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago in Corporate Governance

Mr. Peabody and Sherman prepare to go back in time to visit corpgov.net 5, 10 and 15 years ago. Five…

12 years ago

California Women Business Leaders: Discrimination Continues

The rewards of corporate leadership accrue faster for men. Not only do women hold just one in nine of the…

12 years ago

A VC’s Role on Boards & Director’s College

The role of VCs on private boards and their boardroom role in the IPO process are the stuff of Silicon…

12 years ago

Should CEO Des Hague be Fired for Kicking Puppy?

Sports catering giant Centerplate fined and censured CEO Des Hague last week after an internal review of surveillance video showing…

12 years ago

Directors&Boards: Digital Advisors & Knowledge Capture

Directors&Boards is one of our "stakeholders." No, that doesn't mean they own part of us or that we own part…

12 years ago

Stanford Academics Focus on Wrong Problems at ISS

In a recent Stanford "Closer Look" publication (How ISS Dictates Equity Plan Design), Ian D. Gow (Harvard but graduated from…

13 years ago

SVNACD Event – Corporate Boards: Strategy, Not Just Operations Review

Bob Frisch is the managing partner of Strategic Offsites Group. He has more than 29 years of experience working with executive…

14 years ago

Boys' Club Still in Charge of California Businesses

The 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a "boys' club" with women filling…

14 years ago

Corporate Governance Bites

Continuing challenges to exclusive forum bylaw provisions - Lexology An increasingly popular trend in recent years has been the adoption by…

14 years ago

New CEOs: The Diversification of the Corner Office

Sociologists Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff began studying ascendance to the top corporate office 20 years ago and, while the…

14 years ago

Guest Post: Performance of Indian Boards

The following is a guest post by by Sonia Jaspal from her blog, Sonia Jaspal's RiskBoard, originally posted on June 12, 2012.…

14 years ago

Emotional Intelligence

We need to do a better job of evaluating the emotional competency or our leaders. "A fine balance has to…

14 years ago

Parsing the Vote: CEO Pay Characteristics Relative to Shareholder Dissent

That's the title of a new report from ISS on the factors that contributed to significant investor opposition during last…

14 years ago

The Incoherent Way We “Hire” Directors

Republished here with permission, Ralph Ward's essay was included in his January 2, 2012 publication: Ralph Ward's Boardroom INSIDER, the best quick…

15 years ago

When the CEO Really Must Go

It is often said that "the most important function of a board is to hire and fire the CEO." Yet…

15 years ago

CEOs: Not the Best Directors

The new 2011 Corporate Board of Directors Survey from Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Heidrick & Struggles…

15 years ago

When the CEO Really Must Go

It is often said that "the most important function of a board is to hire and fire the CEO." Yet…

15 years ago

Power Struggles Over Pay

Gary Larkin's recent post, 2011 CEO Succession Report: Dismissals Up, Outside Hires on the Rise, informs Conference Board readers that…

15 years ago

Video: Abe Friedman on CEO Pay

CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies saw their pay jump sharply in 2010, as boards rewarded them for strong profit…

15 years ago

CorpGov and Exec Pay

GovernanceMetrics International recently sampled large corporations and found that CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010 to a median of $9…

15 years ago

Excess-Pay: Beyond the 2% Solution

Excess executive pay can impose substantial costs on companies and shareowners even if manipulation or misconduct isn't involved. Executive pay…

15 years ago

CEOs Should Get Out Vote Among Employees Says Daly

In remarks before the National Press Club, the CEO of Broadridge, the nation’s largest shareholder communications company, called on all…

15 years ago

Video Friday: Financial Crisis & CEO Input Into Board Selection

In response to growing concerns on the spread of the financial crisis, the Yale School of Management, in partnership with…

15 years ago

Effective Chair-CEO Relations

The number of U.S. companies that separate the chairman and CEO roles is at a historic high: 40% of the…

15 years ago

HP Nomination Committee Under Fire

I recently got this from an anonymous member (here are related thoughts from Cydney Posner and Marty Lipton): You may…

15 years ago