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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.   |
Inc.
May 2007
Jennifer Gill |
Smart Questions: How to Vet a Board Member There's a lot of talk these days about the lack of independent directors on corporate boards. But it's not just a big-company issue. There should be at least one outsider on your board, too. Here's what to ask to get the right person in the chair. |
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. |
CFO
January 1, 2005
Julia Homer |
Friends on Board CFOs are spending more time with directors outside the boardroom. |
Inc.
July 2006
Darren Dahl |
CEOs Are From Mars, VCs Are From Venus It's official: CEOs ans VCs see everything differently. |
Job Journal
February 25, 2007
Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros:Sports Stars Can't Compete with Overpaid CEOs Can America bring it's high-flying CEOs down to earth? |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
New CEOs, Same Old Trouble Executive turnover can be a bad sign for your holdings. |
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
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. |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jan/Feb 2005
Bryson & Gast |
Board Briefing: CEOs on the Board What are the advantages and limitations of CEOs on foundation boards? If the CEO is on the board, should he or she have full voting rights? How do your non-profit colleagues approach this decision? |
CFO
May 1, 2010
Alix Stuart |
A Chance to Direct CFOs often have the skills to be a board member, but that doesn't mean it's easy to find a seat. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2009 |
A Trio of Options Shareholders could soon have an easier route to proposing their own directors on company boards, thanks to three changes |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
This Secret Weapon Could Save Your Stocks The presence of women in the boardroom could be a little-known advantage for shareholders. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Kerry J. Sulkowicz |
CEO Pay: The Prestige, The Peril CEOs should reflect on the impact of their pay on their boardrooms and employees. |
Entrepreneur
July 2005
Aliza Pilar Sherman |
Woman On Board In the boardroom, there's still plenty of room for women. |
U.S. Banker
October 2010
Rob Garver |
Board Diversity Remains a Work in Progress In the financial services industry, there are more women than ever on boards of directors, but there's still a long way to go. |
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
June 4, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Should We Be Like Britain? The UK's mandating corporate governance rules. Should we follow suit? |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Women on Board, for Better Governance A 2006 study found that a critical mass of three or more women can cause a fundamental change in the boardroom and enhance corporate governance. Why is this important to investors? |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
More Women Than You Think It's better to focus on the strides women have made into the corporate boardroom rather than on more depressing data. |
CIO
December 14, 2010 |
Why Boards Need CIOs Suzanne Woosley, a veteran corporate board director, makes the case for CIOs as corporate advisors. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2010
Jeffrey Morgan |
Corporate America Wants Your Vote Why we should all care about corporate governance. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
1 Path to Better Boards in 2012 Strong companies require strong directors; diversity would help. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Joseph Webe |
How The Best Boards Stay Clued In Director John A. Krol says a culture of openness has helped turn Tyco around. |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2012
Caroline McDonald |
Reputational Risk Tops Board Worries Directors are taking their companies' good names very seriously. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 13, 2006
Jay W. Lorsch |
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do Compensation committees are under pressure to keep CEO pay high, even as shareholders and the media agitate for moderation. The solution? Boards of directors need better competitive information and an ear to what shareholders are saying. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
CEO Turnover Spikes Volatility in the economy does not necessarily lead to volatility in the C-suite. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
A Modest Proposal to Reduce CEO Pay Let's have some Dutch auctions for CEO jobs. |
Inc.
July 2008 |
Advisers or Directors? The alternatives are presented for each. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Magyer & Moscovitz |
Let's Fix Board Elections Part of an ongoing series about the Shareholder Bill of Rights currently in Congress. In this article, board elections. Whom will you pick to run the ship? |
U.S. Banker
September 2010
George F. Colony |
Hey, CEOs, Be More Social Social media is fast gaining influence in the business world, but there s one demographic almost completely untouched: chief executives. |
CIO
November 14, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
Boards Want to Learn About Emerging IT Issues Directors admit they aren't adequately engaged in topics such as social media and IT-enabled business innovation |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Will the Next Female Director Be You? As more women take their place among the corporate elite as directors and executives, it's interesting to take a look at how they're getting there. |
Insurance & Technology
May 3, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Getting Closer Insurance company CEOs might not yet know as much about technology as their technology officers might hope, but they know they need to be informed -- and so do the boards that evaluate their performance. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Do CEOs Care What Shareholders Think? "Say on pay," where shareholders to voice their approval or disapproval of executive pay packages via nonbinding votes, is slowly gaining traction, and over many years we'll come to see many companies featuring it. |
CFO
August 1, 2012
Andrew Sawers |
More CEOs Go As CEO turnover rises, insider CFOs who take on the top spot may have a better chance of success than external hires. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Let's Fix Director Independence The Shareholder Bill of Rights would separate the chairman and CEO roles. |
CIO
April 1, 2004
Susan H. Cramm |
Reader Q&A The author answers questions on "Managing IT Demand 101" |
The Motley Fool
June 25, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
All Aboard: Let's Rock Some Boats on Boards We need more diverse, independent thinking on corporate boards. |
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. |
Fast Company
September 2004
Chuck Salter |
Mr. Inside Speaks Out Former Medtronic CEO Bill George has split with his brethren to make an impassioned case for courageous leadership. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Boards Need Women Over the last few decades, women have made great strides toward gender equality in many arenas -- but not on corporate boards. |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
John Helyar |
The Recession Is Gone, and the CEO Could Be Next More boards are cleaning out the corner office, looking for different kinds of leadership |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2009
Toby Shute |
Shareholders 1, Board Bozos 0 Score one for shareholder empowerment. |
IndustryWeek
February 17, 2010
Jill Jusko |
Keep It Inside Internal candidates make better CEOs than outsiders, study finds. |
