Boards of Directors

Risk-Taking Women Will Destroy World, Say Male Economists

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.28.2012

In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right? The ones more likely than men to buckle their seatbelts, less likely to funnel whiskey a...

Fixing Dysfunctional Boards

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.30.2011

Mark Goulston, M.D.

What do Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Bank of America, Sprint-Nextel, AMD, Moody's, Best Buy, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Sears and GE have in common?

Directors Must Create Transnational Standards of Conduct

Brad Reid | Posted 09.17.2011

Brad Reid

I remind business leaders to create governance and integrity standards with this issue of extraterritoriality in mind.

Boards Must Communicate Core Values That Guide Decision Making

Brad Reid | Posted 09.07.2011

Brad Reid

The recent verdict in the Casey Anthony trial and the unfolding controversy surrounding News of the World illustrate the inherent uncertainty in our w...

Turn Up the Heat on the Insurance Industry

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Dreier

A few hundred people serve on the boards of the nation's largest health insurance companies. They, the industry they serve, and the politicians who do their bidding, need to be held accountable.

John McCain's New Populism?

Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011

Diane Francis

McCain can "pledge" to reform Wall Street business practices all he wants, but he hasn't walked the walk in the Senate in past years, nor has his party ever done so.