Let's put the focus and accountability on whether CEOs are making good business decisions and not on their resumes and personal behavior.
Bernie Bulkin | Posted 05.09.2012
Policies embody the essence of what a company stands for. For each policy there is a corporate commitment and a set of policy expectations. Everyone in the company, throughout the world, is expected to live by these. No exceptions.
Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.03.2012
Companies, like 3M and Google, that allow employees to carve off a certain percentage of their paid time for innovation are rare. Most other firms want their people to stay focused on today's business -- and only work on innovation in their spare time.
Alice Korngold | Posted 05.03.2012
Assess and enhance your board's composition, practices, and structure based on the direction in which you are taking the organization. This is the path to building a better world.
Alice Korngold | Posted 04.22.2012
What does it mean to get compensation right? And why does it matter so much? Getting it right is called "fair and reasonable" by the IRS. It's what the law requires, it's what any CEO wants, and it's what any donor and member of the public expects.
Bill George | Posted 04.19.2012
Ultimately, actions like Google's will make the U.S. more competitive as companies invest in people, research, and facilities to ensure their long-term success.
Robert A.G. Monks | Posted 04.11.2012
So why the hue and cry -- why the determination to slay a "beast" barely visible from the towering heights of the Shareholders Communication Coalition? No surprise, the answer is money.
Alice Korngold | Posted 03.13.2012
By sixteen I could have been the poster child for a crisis nursery, domestic violence shelter, and rape crisis center. On the positive side, however, I grew up in a neighborhood with friends from many countries, religions, and races.
Alice Korngold | Posted 03.06.2012
Imagine the board also fulfilling a fourth duty: the duty of imagination -- envisioning the greater potential of the organization to advance the community it serves.
Alice Korngold | Posted 02.19.2012
If companies and their boards of directors truly commit to a corporate global vision of justice, businesses can make greater profits than they ever imagined and people throughout the world would have food on their tables and live in peace.
Jack Ucciferri | Posted 02.01.2012
Hopefully the next time a bank commits a crime, the guys who fell asleep at the wheel won't have their defense paid for out of your retirement account. We'll only see improvements in banks when directors are liable.
Jack Ucciferri | Posted 01.23.2012
While it is true that CEO's dominate contemporary corporate governance, it need not be so. It should not be so. In theory, it is not so.
Margaret Heffernan | Posted 01.21.2012
Boards are biased, too like-minded, made up of friends who are typically cronies uncomfortable with conflict. Worse still, in most of our leading corporations today, the positions of Chairman and CEO are held by the same person.
Dr. Pablo Hafner | Posted 11.23.2011
At the outset of the financial crisis, most people thought that large public corporations would be best prepared to withstand the blow. They were wrong.
Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 11.14.2011
I think the most exciting and important development is that there is greater public awareness of corporate governance and boards, which is vital. It's no longer a black box, or a mysterious room.
Ken Allen | Posted 10.11.2011
We may say that functions are moved to the "private sector," but they are almost invariably taken over by corporations. It is not truly a "private sector" to which they are moved, but the corporate sector.
Dr. Hischam El-Agamy | Posted 10.11.2011
In the Middle East and North Africa, the Second Wave of corporate governance will be stimulated because of the region's extraordinary need for growth and enhancement in the welfare of its citizens.
The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Charlotte Jensen | Posted 08.09.2011
Thinking about forming a board of directors for your business? First, you should probably figure out if you really need one. While a formal board of d...
Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011
The board room agenda is going through a reformation. What are some of the essential things that boards and board members need to think about? Five areas need an update.
Rich Nadworny | Posted 05.25.2011
A lot of people got very worked up last year over the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The more I read the news these days, the more I think those justices might be on to something.
Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011
The role of modern corporate boards is the juxtaposition of grounding and stargazing. Grounding is about making sure that the company fulfills all o...
Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011
Clearly, it looks odd these days for a board to be comprised of only white men, but does diversity make a difference in real economic terms? Does it actually affect the bottom line?
Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011
As a non-executive board director, I have been thinking a great deal about what it means to do this role in today's environment.
Dov Seidman | Posted 05.25.2011
The governance operating system is based on an underlying assumption that employees act in their self-interest. This operating system worked perfectly fine for decades, until leaders began calling on employees for other things besides productivity.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011
Proxy access comes down to this: If you give long-term shareholders (meaning those who own 3% of the shares for three years) easy access to board nominations, they will finally be able to perform their monitoring function adequately.
Marty Robins | Posted 05.17.2012