By now, it's the perceived wisdom that people who are chief executive officers should not also be chairmen of the board. Institutional Shareholder Services and all sorts of rating agencies state, with complete conviction, that the job should be split--at all times, and at all companies. But...
CEO pay is "too high in most cases," say about one in three directors of U.S.-based public companies in a just-released survey by Heidrick & Struggles International and the Center for Effective Organizations CEO at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The survey also found...
This is a tough question to ask because Meg Whitman has been a legendary Silicon Valley CEO for 10 years and one of America's leading women CEOs, but ask it we must: does her expected departure from eBay at the age of 51 signal a management failure on her part?...
I'm indebted to Thomas Kirchner, a fellow business commentator, who has a radical idea. If the goal of organizing a CEO's compensation is go give him or her a real personal stake in how the business performs, why not look at how Porsche has structured the compensation of CEO Wiedeking?:...
Bravo to the board of Coca-Cola and Chairman and CEO Neville Isdell: This is how to handle CEO succession. Isdell, who is 64, announced he would step down as CEO and turn over the reins to Muhtar Kent, 55, who had been serving as president and chief...
If you're ever tempted to undertake a cross-cultural merger or acquisition, think real hard about it. Very hard. Lucent's merger with France's Alcatel is a case in point. Although much ballyhooed when Lucent CEO Pat Russo and Alcatel CEO Serge Tchuruk reached the deal 18 months ago,...
Glass Lewis & Co. is one of the cops on the beat. Although not as powerful as Institutional Shareholder Services ISS, Glass Lewis' ratings of companies and their corporate governance practices really matter. And in contested proxy battles, many investors turn to Glass Lewis for its opinion. ...
It takes a pretty confident CEO to engineer a deal that puts Steve Jobs on his board--where Jobs could emerge as chairman. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But part of the reason Bob Iger may have felt so self-assured was the faith he had in his...
Ed Zander was a Silicon Valley star, having been president of Sun Microsystems before joining a private equity firm. So in January 2004 when he arrived at Motorola, which was seen as a sleepy inward-looking company that had been late to the digital cell phone revolution, many...
At Dell Inc.'s headquarters on the northern outskirts of Austin, Michael Dell is standing in his office and looking at a feature that's rather unusual in a CEO suite. It's a glass wall, with a wide open, sliding glass door, leading into the office of President and...
Articles 2003-11-01
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