The March/April edition of The Corporate Board contains several excellent articles. I e-mailed a couple of quotes from their ‘Spoken & Written’ section to a CEO who needs a real board, instead of a rubber stamp. (more…)
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Good Reads in Corporate Governance: Quarterlies & More
James McRitchie, 09/12/2013 ,
“The Annual Report 2013” from Directors & Boards has lots of great articles, as always, but my favorite in the current issue is James Kristie’s The Year in Review. “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 […]
Nell Minow: The Unfinished Business of Corporate Governance
James McRitchie, 03/25/2013 ,
Writing in the March/April edition of The Corporate Board, Nell Minow titles her latest bit of advice, The Unfinished Business of Corporate Governance. Here’s the lead in: After a decade of frantic corporate governance reform, business leaders may believe that governance has reached the pinnacle of responsibility and effectiveness. Not so fast, says Nell Minow, […]
Boardrooms at the Speed of Light
James McRitchie, 03/15/2011 ,
Technology has become a staple of the boardroom over the past decade. Today we see it reshaping the parameters of corporate governance itself. Electronic board books and board portals are shaking up what happens in the boardroom, of course, but online social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn will force directors to rethink how […]