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Corporate Boards

Do Corporate Fines and Punitive Damage Awards Serve Their Purpose?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

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Judge H. Lee Sarokin

Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle fraud claims regarding its marketing practices -- the largest criminal fine of any kind ever. But it's the shareholders, and not the corporate officers, who will be punished.

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The Right Way to Icahn-Proof Your Board

Carl Icahn | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Shareholders, Corporate Boards, Corporate Responsibility, Carl Icahn, Economy, Corporate Board Member, Business News
Carl Icahn

I await Corporate Board Member magazine's upcoming article, "How to Icahn-proof your board," with keen interest, particularly since I serve on a number of boards that apparently failed in this regard.

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The New CEO at Yahoo is Urgent to Stop the Brain Drain

Penny Herscher | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

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Penny Herscher

Seeing a VP engineering go to My Space and the director of search engineering go to Current TV -- and there are many of these -- tells the story of what's happening inside the company.

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Hillary's $5 Million Dump Truck

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Arkansas, Barack Obama Fundraising, Clinton Loan, Rose Law Firm, Funding, Corporate Boards, $5 Millon Loan, Dump Truck of Dirt, Supermarket Magnate, Super Tuesday Results, Hillary Clinton Fundraising, Kazakhstan, Bill Clinton, Giustra, Marc Cooper. Ron Burkle, Breaking Politics News, Whitewater, Hillary Clinton, : Barack Obama, Uranium Deal, Home News
Marc Cooper

When Obama said Republicans would find a "whole dump truck" of dirt on Hillary Clinton he knew what he was talking about. She just poured $5 million into its tank.

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