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CFO March 15, 2006 Anne Stuart	Serenity Now! Board members worried about compliance-related lawsuits may want to revisit their directors' and officers' insurance policies.
CFO December 1, 2002 David M. Katz	Cover Me Anyone searching for D&O coverage will find it more expensive and less inclusive than ever before.
Inc. March 1, 2003 Tahl Raz	Governing: Boardroom Makeover Like many company owners, Richard Domaleski set up a board of directors only to realize he had done it all wrong.
CFO November 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2011 Alyce Lomax	1 Path to Better Boards in 2012 Strong companies require strong directors; diversity would help.
Knowledge@Wharton	Corporate Boards Should Focus on Performance, Not Conformance After the corporate governance revolution of the 1990s that led to a new era of accountability to shareholders, the Enron debacle has brought new attention to the role of corporate boards and governance...
HBS Working Knowledge January 17, 2007 Malcolm Salter	Learning from Private-Equity Boards Boards of professionally sponsored buyouts are more informed, hands-on, and interventionist than public company boards. The author argues that this board model could have helped Enron and perhaps your company as well.
HBS Working Knowledge May 11, 2011 Carmen Nobel	Building a Better Board While corporate board members take their jobs more seriously than ever, they are not necessarily as helpful or effective as they could be, says Harvard Business School senior lecturer Stephen Kaufman.
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003	Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end?
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HBS Working Knowledge August 9, 2004 Lucian A. Bebchuk	Bring Shareholders into the Board Room How can we improve board performance? One way is by reducing the extent to which boards are insulated from, and unaccountable to, shareholders.
IndustryWeek November 17, 2010	Board Member Today; CEO Tomorrow The number of Fortune 1000 directors who became the CEOs of the companies on whose boards they served more than doubled in the past year.
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2009 Jamie Reeves	Evaluating Your D&O Protection The first step the board must take in steeling itself against liability is undergoing a thorough review of its insurance carrier. This interview offers tips on questions the board should be asking before the going gets tough.
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 David Henry	Will Directors Morph Into Corporate Constables? Thanks to new federal sentencing guidelines, boards will be expected to do a far more thorough job of ensuring that no laws are being broken.
CIO December 23, 2008 Carrie Mathews	Corporate Boards: What You Need to Know Before Joining One Four CIOs share tips on how to make sitting on an outside board work for you.
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BusinessWeek April 25, 2005 Henry et al.	The Boss on the Sidelines Auditors, directors, and lawyers are asserting their new-age power, and the reason for their defiance is no great mystery. The watchdogs are finally facing genuine liability for their failures.
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BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Louis Lavelle	A Simple Way To Make Boards Behave Requiring directors to win a majority of votes would give shareholders more say. Investors at as many as 100 companies will vote on nonbinding shareholder resolutions urging those companies to adopt majority voting.
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CFO December 1, 2007 Lori Calabro	Look Who's Not Talking Both company directors and senior managers place a premium on strategic planning. So what keeps them from collaborating on it?
The Motley Fool January 7, 2005 Bill Mann	Are Corporate Directors Next Against the Wall? Worldcom's Directors settle a landmark case by paying out of pocket. Meanwhile, Walter Forbes skates.
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Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 Kimberly Crowe	2010 Director Compensation Review The results of the latest compensation survey offer an in-depth review of industry pay practices and reveal how the latest issues and trends in compensation are affecting banks and directors nationwide.
CFO July 1, 2006 Laura DeMars	Heavy Vetting Boards of directors now want to talk to would-be CFOs -- and vice versa.
CFO April 1, 2009 Russ Banham	A Tale of Two Markets Are your directors'-and-officers' liability insurance premiums about to soar? That depends on which industry you're in.
The Motley Fool April 8, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Corporate Boards Need to Wake Up One of investors' biggest problems -- whether they know it or not -- has been a tendency toward ineffective, entrenched boards of directors that don't do their primary job, which is to look out for shareholder interests.
HBS Working Knowledge December 22, 2003 Martha Lagace	How to Build a Better Board Boards need to work smarter and with a design in mind, says Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch. Lorsch discusses his new book Back to the Drawing Board, co-written with Colin B. Carter.
CIO July 15, 2006 Michael Schrage	Visibility for the Board With boards of directors under increased scrutiny by regulators and other entities, CIOs should consider creating a digital dashboard that gives them a view into the key performance indicators of the business.
CFO December 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart	Should You Buy D&O ASAP? Directors' and officers insurance rates have dropped, but recent settlements may swing the pendulum in the other direction.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2008 Rich Duprey	Corporate Boards Are Broken Extreme measures are needed to get boards to do their jobs.
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IndustryWeek August 1, 2005 Jill Jusko	Beefed Up Boards More diligent and accountable, today's directors are scrutinizing executive compensation like never before -- and changing the dynamic of the board-management relationship.
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