Smaller boards for better governance
How small boards can be more efficient than bigger? What is the impact on the daily governance? Robert Pozen, a Harvard Business School lecturer and former general counsel for Fidelity Mutual Funds,...
View Article9 keys issues for board of directors in 2013
Here you have a list of the key issues that are newly emerging or will be especially important in the coming year. Each year, the legal rules and aspirational best practices for corporate governance,...
View ArticleFive principles for getting the most out of a board assessment
Corporate boards today are expected to be more engaged, more knowledgeable and more effective than in the past. One tool that a growing number of boards are using to examine and improve their...
View ArticleMajor Differences Between Roles of Direction and Management
In this article, we will remind the principal differences between the boards of directors and the management of the company. Source: Guide Pratique de Médiatisation du Gouvernement D’Entreprise...
View ArticleThe 2013 Director Compensation and Board Practices Report
The Conference Board, NASDAQ OMX and NYSE Euronext jointly released the 2013 edition of Director Compensation and Board Practices, a benchmarking study with more than 150 corporate governance data...
View ArticleSeveral keys questions for board members and their comittees.
The PwC (refer to Price water house Coopers) has published a report about the keys questions that a board should consider in order to carry out their governance duty. Here you have the questions and...
View Article10 important topics for board of directors in 2013
The havard law school forum gave ten good topics that board of directors should consider for the next years 2013. “A fog of uncertainty hangs over U.S. public companies as 2013 approaches. The looming...
View ArticleThe US Patriot Act, in the news again for privacy risks!
The debate on the confidentiality of companies’ private information stored online with American hosts has been aroused with a recent notice by a US District Court. The court requires Microsoft to hand...
View ArticleDo not share confidential board information by email if you want it to remain...
This week, yet again in the news have been exposed and illustrated the risks of using non secure email accounts to send and discuss sensitive board data. As a consequence of the “Sony Hack”, highly...
View ArticleSecuring The Digital Boardroom
Securing The Digital Boardroom By Amanda Biggs Marketing Manager for Leading Boards published by the magazine Ethical Boardroom, Winter Edition 2014. Over the past decade boardrooms around the world...
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