With All the Brains in the Room — That’s how real value is created in corporate governance, not by making…
Proxy Power and How to Squash the Voice of Shareholders would have been a better title for the September 10,…
Employee ownership has a huge potential to improve firm performance, reduce layoffs, improve employee compensation and…
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…
CEO Compensation was a Joke Before Covid-19, Now It is Just Obnoxious In an era of sacrifice, risk, and despair…
Sock puppets are trying to generate another round of astro-turf comment letters to the SEC. Proxy advisors do NOT file…
Compensation: The Difference it Makes Compensation. Most Americans think CEOs of the 500 largest publicly traded corporations are overpaid, even…
Few who have seen it can forget the iconic scene from the movie Wall Street when Michael Douglas’s character Gordon…
Women in California companies continue to make slight progress. More of California's largest 400 public companies public companies than ever…
Robert A.G. Monks, concerned with shameful corporate behavior today blogged When a Child Rules the Parent: The Problem of Corporate…
Mr. Peabody and Sherman prepare to go back in time to visit corpgov.net 5, 10 and 15 years ago. Five…
The rewards of corporate leadership accrue faster for men. Not only do women hold just one in nine of the…
The role of VCs on private boards and their boardroom role in the IPO process are the stuff of Silicon…
Sports catering giant Centerplate fined and censured CEO Des Hague last week after an internal review of surveillance video showing…
Directors&Boards is one of our "stakeholders." No, that doesn't mean they own part of us or that we own part…
In a recent Stanford "Closer Look" publication (How ISS Dictates Equity Plan Design), Ian D. Gow (Harvard but graduated from…
Bob Frisch is the managing partner of Strategic Offsites Group. He has more than 29 years of experience working with executive…
The 400 largest companies headquartered in California, representing almost $3 trillion in shareholder value, still resemble a "boys' club" with women filling…
Continuing challenges to exclusive forum bylaw provisions - Lexology An increasingly popular trend in recent years has been the adoption by…
Sociologists Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff began studying ascendance to the top corporate office 20 years ago and, while the…
The following is a guest post by by Sonia Jaspal from her blog, Sonia Jaspal's RiskBoard, originally posted on June 12, 2012.…
We need to do a better job of evaluating the emotional competency or our leaders. "A fine balance has to…
That's the title of a new report from ISS on the factors that contributed to significant investor opposition during last…
Republished here with permission, Ralph Ward's essay was included in his January 2, 2012 publication: Ralph Ward's Boardroom INSIDER, the best quick…
It is often said that "the most important function of a board is to hire and fire the CEO." Yet…
The new 2011 Corporate Board of Directors Survey from Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance and Heidrick & Struggles…
It is often said that "the most important function of a board is to hire and fire the CEO." Yet…
Gary Larkin's recent post, 2011 CEO Succession Report: Dismissals Up, Outside Hires on the Rise, informs Conference Board readers that…
CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies saw their pay jump sharply in 2010, as boards rewarded them for strong profit…
GovernanceMetrics International recently sampled large corporations and found that CEO pay jumped 27% in 2010 to a median of $9…
Excess executive pay can impose substantial costs on companies and shareowners even if manipulation or misconduct isn't involved. Executive pay…
In remarks before the National Press Club, the CEO of Broadridge, the nation’s largest shareholder communications company, called on all…
In response to growing concerns on the spread of the financial crisis, the Yale School of Management, in partnership with…
The number of U.S. companies that separate the chairman and CEO roles is at a historic high: 40% of the…
I recently got this from an anonymous member (here are related thoughts from Cydney Posner and Marty Lipton): You may…