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BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004 |
Investors Fight Back From the Netherlands to South Korea, corporate boards are taking major steps to improve shareholder rights in the wake of financial scandals.   |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Dees Stribling |
Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry. |
BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004
Balfour & Tashiro |
In Asia, A Change In Attitude A combination of government initiatives, pressure from global institutional investors, and the efforts of grassroots investor groups have shaken things loose in many Asian boardrooms. Increasingly, board members and executives who abuse minority shareholders can expect to be challenged. |
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. |
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? |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Craig Schneider |
Transatlantic Answers Can U.S. regulators improve corporate governance at home by looking overseas? |
CFO
September 1, 2004
John Goff |
Who's the Boss? Spurred by a slew of portfolio-punishing accounting scandals and angered by decades of corporate indifference to their requests, shareholder activists want more say in how American companies are run. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Daimler's Fumbles Are Firing Up Europe's Shareholders Finally, investors are becoming angry enough to throw their weight around |
BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004
Kerry Capell |
Royal Ahold: From Europe's Enron To Model Citizen? More than 800 angry shareholders of Royal Ahold gathered at the Hague on Mar. 3 for what would be a first in Dutch corporate history, a shareholders' meeting devoted purely to corporate governance. |
| 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... |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 25, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Germany Inc.: Come Clean Or Else If German companies don't improve governance, new laws will force change. |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006 |
An Acid Test for Boards Institutional Shareholder Services is making financial performance a metric for supporting directors' reelection. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Lori Calabro |
The Prime of Ms. Nell Minow For the prominent shareholder activist, these have been both the best and the worst of times. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2004
Paul Wanner |
REITs Get the Bronze for Governance The group of REIT companies studied in this analysis exhibits superior governance practices relative to the entire universe of companies ranked by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS.) |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
Those Who Sit on Company Boards Face a New, Tougher Job Description Two longtime executives and board members talk about the changing role of boards of directors in what they say is becoming an increasingly volatile, litigious and risky environment. |
CFO
October 1, 2002 |
Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals. |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Governance: Backlash In The Executive Suite Many in America's business community say reform is going too far, as activists dig in. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Ann Therese Palmer |
Activist Capitalists Today, corporate governance analysts are legion. Here's what two key corporate governance experts say about nuances on corporate governance analysis. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2007
Charles Keenan |
Pillars of Good Governance REIT corporate governance is among the best in the United States and boards across the industry remain highly focused on corporate performance and strategy. |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
More Rules, Higher Profits? New research shows that good governance practices may reduce your cost of capital. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2004
Eliot Cohen |
Lies, Half-Truths, and Hubris Help the SEC make the right choice about fairer elections for boards of directors. Corporate insiders are spouting lies, half-truths, and hubris to prevent investors from getting a whiff of fairer elections for boards of directors. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 6, 2004
Mallory Stark |
Executive Comp: Pay Without Performance Out-of-control executive compensation schemes are "widespread, persistent, and systemic," and new reforms won't clean up the mess, argue two law professors in this Q&A and book excerpt. |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2007
Jena McGregor |
Activist Investors Get More Respect Boards are listening, and shareholder proposals are making headway. |
BusinessWeek
April 3, 2006
Emily Thornton |
ISS Looks Like It's Channeling Icahn The proxy advisory firm says Fifth Third's CEO should go despite stellar governance. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2005
Rich Duprey |
S&P Ratings a Zero The credit rating agency ends its corporate governance evaluation service. Considering that it was up to the end user to decide whether to make S&P corporate governance score (CGS) ratings public, the ratings' value to the investing public was probably minimal. |
Knowledge@Wharton
December 18, 2002 |
Re-Examining the Role of the Chairman of the Board Faculty members at Wharton and a board member of a major U.S. corporation say that while there are some circumstances in which a division of authority between a chairman and a CEO may make sense, it is by no means a surefire way to keep companies on the straight and narrow. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Should We Be Like Britain? The UK's mandating corporate governance rules. Should we follow suit? |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Ann Therese Palmer |
Watching the Insiders An interview with Nell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library, a research group that evaluates corporate governance policies, on why a rep should consider a company's corporate governance when deciding which stocks to purchase for a client. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2003
James B. Wright |
Governing REIT Compensation As recent well-publicized REIT proxy/management battles have demonstrated, REIT governance issues are no longer under the radar. In time, shareholder concerns (and any REIT vulnerabilities) relative to independent compensation decisions will also receive scrutiny. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2011
Dominguez & Esterhuizen |
Board Risk: List of Companies With Low Corporate Governance Risk Do you think these boards have shareholders' interests as a top priority? |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2005
Dean Starkman |
The 8 Governance Issues That Matter Most For REIT investors, these 8 corporate governance factors carry the most weight in their investment decisions. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Dayana Yochim |
It's Time for a Shareholder Revolution The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act is the most prominent, widely publicized proposal on corporate governance to come out of this crisis. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2008
Rich Duprey |
When Good Isn't Good Enough A new study shows that good corporate governance scores don't really help predict trouble. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
U.S. Banker
June 2006
Rebecca Sausner |
Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 21, 2009
Roger Thompson |
Excessive Executive Pay: What's the Solution? In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. |
BusinessWeek
May 3, 2004
Stanley Reed |
Can Shell Put Out This Oil Fire? The company is floundering, and there's no sign of major changes on the way |
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
June 11, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Can This Factor Improve Your Returns? Too many shareholders forget one crucial element. Companies plagued by self-centered, short-sighted managers could easily foreshadow lousy investment results to come. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2012
Jay Lorsch |
Book Excerpt: 'The Future of Boards' In an excerpt from "The Future of Boards," the author discusses why directors are newly questioning their roles. |
U.S. Banker
April 2010
Michael Sisk |
Boardroom Burdens Bank directors must be more hands-on than ever, exercising tighter control over management and setting strategic direction. Here are five issues that need attention now. |
BusinessWeek
January 22, 2007
Byrnes & Sasseen |
Board of Hard Knocks Activist shareholders, tougher rules, and anger over CEO pay have put directors on the hot seat. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Der Hovanesian et al. |
How to Fix the Mutual Funds Mess Hidden fees, lax boards, and now scandal. Here's what has to be done. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2009
Chris Jones |
Does Good Governance Make Great Stocks? Reemphasizing the importance of shareholder rights. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Corporate Boards Are Broken Extreme measures are needed to get boards to do their jobs. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Edmondson & Kline |
Can Parmalat Be Saved? If creditors support Enrico Bondi's plan, the Italian milk company Parmalat could be out of bankruptcy by November, less than a year after the implosion that rocked financial markets around the world. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2002
Steve Bergsman |
Direct Effect As the focus on corporate governance issues intensifies, real estate companies will need to ensure that board composition and practices keep pace with rapid changes at all publicly traded companies. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2004
Stanley Reed |
Shell's Drama Isn't Over After the downgrade shock, can management get back on track? Senior managers at Shell suggest that Sir Philip Watts step down. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Best and Worst Corporate Boards Did any of your companies make the Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame? |
