Boardroom A five-step framework Jun 30, 2007 By Gary Levine 6 min read The perfect storm of option-accounting began in 2002 with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Once the floodgates were open, a number of other... Read More
Boardroom The fine line for UK activists Jun 30, 2007 By Caroline Thomas 6 min read In May, the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) issued advice in its 'Market Watch' newsletter about shareholder activism... Read More
Boardroom An environment of risk May 31, 2007 By Elizabeth Judd 13 min read In 2004, more than two years before Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ hit movie theatres nationwide, Cinergy, now part of Duke... Read More
Boardroom Leading the Society of ‘doers’ May 31, 2007 By Anna Snider 7 min read The annual Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals national conference marks a changing of the guard when... Read More
Boardroom Following the leader May 31, 2007 By Glenn Curtis 7 min read Analysts and investors often review insider transactions in an effort to gain insight into management’s bullish or bearish... Read More
Boardroom All change May 31, 2007 By Caroline Thomas 6 min read Now’s a busy time for corporate secretaries in the UK, or company secretaries as they’re known across the pond. For the first time... Read More
Boardroom Tokyo calling May 31, 2007 By Janine Armin 6 min read Just as scandals at Enron and Worldcom gave rise to the governance reforms of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, fraud at Japanese companies... Read More
Boardroom Mediation and the SEC May 31, 2007 By Michael Reilly 9 min read The SEC had to do a bit of fire-fighting in late spring as a Wall Street Journal story smoked out the topic of arbitration as a... Read More
Boardroom A modest proposal? Speak for yourself May 31, 2007 By Geoff Loftus 6 min read It’s not a pretty picture. Especially not when you are looking at shareholder voting from your executive perch in Corporate... Read More
Boardroom Minutes of Integrity May 31, 2007 By Brendan Sheehan 10 min read Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s an old adage, but often old sayings are the most accurate. This certainly appears to be... Read More