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Corporate Governance

Too Compromised to Govern: the Top Conflicts Plaguing Corporate Governance

Jesse Strauss | Posted 01.07.2010 | Business

Read More: Shareholder Rights, Corporate Governance, Say on Pay, Corporate Boards, Compensation Consultants, Proxy, Too Big to Fail, Board of Directors, Business News
Jesse Strauss

Although Wall Street maybe too big to fail, corporate governance reform is just too important to fail.

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Succession Planning 101: Lessons for the Bank of America

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Banking, Leadership, Succession Planning, Corporate Governance, Ken Lewis, Business News
Alicia Whitaker

Succession planning has moved from being a largely academic exercise to an element of corporate governance that regulators and investors demand.

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Executive Compensation - "Keep the Bubble in the Middle"

David M. Roberts | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Executive Compensation, Say on Pay, Wall Street Crisis, Corporate Governance, Business News
David M. Roberts

A recent academic study by Fahlenbrach & Stulz actually shows that on average the CEO's in the financial crisis did not take big gains while shareholders suffered losses. The median loss for a CEO was $5.1million.

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The Bizarre World of Nell Minow

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Movie Mom, Corporate Governance, Comic Con, Nell Minow, Media News
Robert J. Elisberg

Nell Minow, movie reviewer and one of the leading experts in America on corporate governance, is perhaps the most bizarre woman in America.

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Beyond The Myth of the Rational Market

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: The Myth of the Rational Market, Regulation, Justin Fox, Capital Ideas, Wall Street, Peter Bernstein, Corporate Governance, Against the Gods, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Despite the denunciation of deregulation and the free-market ideology, we haven't left the market behind. It often feels as if it's all we've got.

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CEO, Chairmanship Split: Pressure Growing To Change Rules

Huffington Post via WSJ | Julie Satow | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, Harry Pearce, Corporate Governance, Ceo Chairman Split, Ceo Chairman Report, Ceos, Nyse:Rmg, Tse:Nt, Business News

More than 50 high-profile corporate executives, investors and think tanks pushed for splitting the role of CEO and Chairman on Monday. A new report,...

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Blue Dog Democrats and Republican Triangulation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Gop, Mitch McConnell, Ann Coulter, Progressives, Afghanistan Occupation, Employee Free Choice Act, Conservatism, Obama Administration, Democratic Party, Economic Meltdown, Blue Doggery, Meghan McCain, U.S. Senate, Bush Doctrine, Triangulation, Laissez-Faire, Progressive Democrats, Grover Norquist, Capitalism, Republican Party, Blue Dog Democrats, Corporate Governance, Bretton Woods Accords, Evan Bayh, John McCain, North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry, President Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Iraq Occupation, Congress, Efca, Triangulate, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dogs, Republicans, Free Market, Alan Greenspan, William Kristol, Senate, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

We must not allow the Blue Dogs to slow down President Obama's momentum or water down the sweeping reforms the nation needs in these trying economic times.

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The New Accountability in Governance

Roger Fransecky | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Governance, Regulation, Sec, Wall Street Regulation, Mary Schapiro, Business News
Roger Fransecky

It's time for boards of directors and CEOs to seriously examine their governance practices -- before an angry crowd of citizens calls for their heads

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Why Chinese Babies are Dying

Jeremy Haft | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Quality Control, Corporate Governance, Wall Street, Melamine, Tainted Chinese Milk, Chinese Baby Formula, Capitalism, China, Business News
Jeremy Haft

We blame bad regs for China's melamine myopia. This isn't the problem. China lags centuries behind the West when it comes to corporate governance.

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Carl Icahn, Blogger?

New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Bloggers, Billionaires, Icahn Report, Corporate Governance, Carl Icahn, Business News

For two decades, Carl C. Icahn has been among the most visible of rabble-rousing investors, garnering attention from the press for nearly every invest...

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