Boardroom The new CEO Jul 31, 2008 By Janine Armin 3 min read Ben Heineman Jr, former general counsel at GE, has tackled the ever-important governance debate in a new book, High performance... Read More
Boardroom The game of risk Jul 31, 2008 By Janine Armin 6 min read The economic climate has changed a great deal since David Hensler, partner at Hogan & Hartson, worked in the SEC’s general counsel... Read More
Boardroom Rating the raters Jul 31, 2008 By Adam Piore 9 min read For years, the major credit rating agencies – Moody’s, Fitch and Standard & Poor’s – have been the quasi-official gatekeepers of... Read More
Boardroom The new face of activism Jun 30, 2008 By Randy Hecht 11 min read Eric Jackson was annoyed. As a minor Yahoo shareholder in 2006, he felt like he was ‘watching a train wreck as an outsider,’ which... Read More
Boardroom Beating back the tide Jun 30, 2008 By Robert McGarvey 12 min read One day in late May a small airplane circled Dallas’ city center capturing the attention of onlookers with a large banner that... Read More
Boardroom Having their say Jun 30, 2008 By Janine Armin 10 min read A new voice joins the vigorous compensation debate amongst proxy advisory services, shareholder activists and corporations in the... Read More
Boardroom Compliance programs as quality control Jun 30, 2008 By David Collins 11 min read Corporations face growing demands not only to comply with all the laws and regulations that apply to their business but also to... Read More
Boardroom Advancing the paperless revolution Jun 30, 2008 By Brendan Sheehan 5 min read Despite more than 40 years of dematerialization, many paper stock certificates still circulate on numerous exchanges. This might... Read More
Boardroom A good working relationship Jun 30, 2008 By Brendan Sheehan 6 min read With many other parts of the increasingly complex shareholder communication and services business, the world of stock transfer is... Read More
Boardroom Surviving the fallout Jun 30, 2008 By Brendan Sheehan 6 min read It seems that every time a company makes a move, or doesn’t for that matter, it faces a new risk. If it’s not regulators passing... Read More