Topic: Corporate Governance

Rules for Executive Compensation

BY Jack Zinda
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The federal securities laws require clear, concise disclosure about compensation paid to CEOs, CFOs, and certain other high-ranking executive officers of public companies. READ MORE›

Government Contractors HP, IBM, Merck Top List of Best Corporate Citizens

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Government contractors aren't always the best corporate citizens. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who has witnessed the public meltdowns of energy companies, defense contractors, and financial institutions. But, as in ...READ MORE›

Surfing for Boards

BY Heath Row
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The Oct. 1 edition of CEO Notes highlighted a slew of useful corporate governance resources. I've hand picked some of the best tools the newsletter's editors recommended: PriceWaterhouseCoopers ValueReporting: "an innovative ...READ MORE›

Memo to: CEOs

BY Robert Simons, Henry Mintzberg, and Kunal Basu
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Business is at a crossroads. Scandal and recession have cast a pall on the way CEOs go about leading their companies. Three distinguished professors send this memo -- Five Half-truths of Business -- as a wake-up call.READ MORE›

Hurricane Governance II

BY Heath Row
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In chapter five of Authentic Leadership, Bill George outlines how authentic companies approach organizational values: Values begin with telling the truth, internally and externally. Authentic companies value the importance of ...READ MORE›

Scandal, Us

BY Fast Company Staff
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Three years after Arthur Anderson's conviction on obstruction of justice charges, the revisionists are closing in. The public has largely moved on, satisfied that something is being done even if the outcome isn't neat and clean. The ...READ MORE›

SAS 70 Audits | A Historical Timeline & Overview

BY charles denyer
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SAS 70 Audits have been used since the inception of the auditing standard in 1992. They've also grown tremendously in the last five (5) years due to the explosive growth of regulatory compliance and corporate governance. So, ...READ MORE›

Freeland's Washington Post Op-Ed Is Wrong: CSR Does Maximize Corporate Profitability

BY Alice Korngold
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"The cult of corporate social responsibility" is one of the culprits in the BP oil spill, claims Chrsytia Freeland, global editor at large for Thomson Reuters, in her opinion piece in yesterday's Washington Post. How is that? Because, ...READ MORE›

The practice of giving back - Business

BY Chris Jarvis
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The following article by Jiayan Huang from The Ticker is an excellent example of the current trends in Corporate Social Responsibility. It highlights the importance of volunteerism through the employer as a benefit that displaces ...READ MORE›

SAS 70 Audit Tutorial | Learn about SAS 70 Audits - Section 1.0

BY charles denyer
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SAS 70 audits seem like they are everywhere these days. From regulatory compliance to corporate governance, SAS 70 Type I and Type II audits are having a profound impact on today's business arena. Developed in 1992 by ...READ MORE›

CEOs in the Slammer

BY Angus Loten
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This year, a record number of CEOs were ousted. Some were fired, some retired, and some even died. But a great number were also sent to prison, like the CEOs of Enron and WorldCom. What happens to company leaders when they run roughshod over their corporations?READ MORE›

The SEC: What's Wrong And How To Fix It

BY Greg Selker
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Noted legal expert, Marc Morgenstern speaks his mind in this Selker Leadership interview on what is wrong with the SEC and potentially how it can be fixed, coming to the conclusion that the natural human tendency towards greater regulation is exactly the wrong approach to deliver safety, transparency and liquidity. This is part 1 of a 2 part seriesREAD MORE›

Does Fiduciary Duty Enter a Zone of Insolvency?

BY Alan Insul
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The recent decision by the California Court of Appeal, Berg & Berg Enterprises v. John Boyle et al., a reaffirmation of California earlier Trust Fund doctrine and rejecting the so-called “zone of insolvency” approach of ...READ MORE›

What's The ROI On That Skybox?

BY Amy Feldman
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Bank of America's ticket inventory numbers in the hundreds of thousands, including seats in more than 80 suites for teams like the Boston Red Sox, the Dallas Cowboys, and the San Francisco Giants. Managing that inventory? That wasn't ...READ MORE›

Playing Kings: The CEO and President

BY John Elkington
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In the third post of their 7-part series, John Elkington and Charmian Love look at how CEOs are coping with the new wild cards dealt by environmental, social and governance challenges.READ MORE›

Corporate Responsibility Magazine Publishing Black List of Corporate Villains

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Corporate Responsibility Magazine is well-known for its annual list of the 100 Best Corporate Citizens, which has been honoring ultra-transparent companies like HP, Intel, and Abbott Laboratories for the past 11 years. Now CRM is ...READ MORE›

"Everybody Else Is Doing It"

BY Fast Company Staff
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Those may be the five most dangerous words in business, wrote Warren Buffet in a September 27 memo to his top managers at Berkshire Hathaway. According to an article today in The Financial Times, the billionaire investment guru is ...READ MORE›

Business Schools and the Financial Crisis

BY Y Araki
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A large number of articles have been asking the question of whether business schools are to be blamed for the financial crisis. I believe the question that should be asked is not whether business schools are to be blamed of, but how ...READ MORE›

Bribery

BY HASSAN ABOU GHAYDA
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Companies should always respect the law in the country they are operating in. So in Saudi Arabia women faces severe discrimination in many aspects of their lives, including education, employment and the justice system and they are ...READ MORE›

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES IN BANGLADESH

BY Mohammed Alauddin
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Corporate Governance Practices in Bangladesh: Do corporates fulfill the expectation of shareholders? By Mohammed Alauddin MBA 9th Batch (HRM) University of ...READ MORE›

The List

BY Heath Row
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In the June 6 edition of The Deal, Jeffrey Kanige offers his pecking order ot People Whose Opinion Matters to most executives: Head of compensation committee Eliot Spitzer Paramour Outside directors Maitre d' at Per Se Spouse Head ...READ MORE›

CEO See-Ya!

BY Jennifer Reingold
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Raymond Gilmartin, CEO of Merck Co.READ MORE›

Carrot v. Stick

BY Chris Jarvis
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Enron, WorldCom, AIG… CSR was born into a world because of failure, lack of oversight and is a concept that we must compel companies to follow. This stance has never sat right with me, as it makes CSR a dirty word that ethical and progressive companies shouldn’t subscribe.READ MORE›

Dick Grasso and the New York Stock Exchange

BY Fast Company Staff
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Forget about the money. Sure, a $140 million payout in deferred compensation and retirement bennies to NYSE Chairman Dick Grasso is obscene. So was the $21.8 million he got in 2000 alone or the $25.6 million he gained in 2001 or the ...READ MORE›

Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause

BY Moishe Alexander
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Moishe Alexander reviews Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause and gives it 3.5 out of five.READ MORE›