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Corporate Governance: the system by which companies are directed and controlled. Boards of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies. The stockholders' role in governance...; Corporate Governance definition on BNET »

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Who Pays for Minority Director Campaigns?: Let's say your board is being challenged by dissident shareholders to bring in directors on a minority slate. Who should pay for it? That's question that the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has asked the Delaware Supreme Court to answer. The SEC is doing so because about...; Tags: SEC, Computer Associates International Inc., Director, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-06-30
No Freedom of Speech for Executives: Champions of corporate transparency believe that dialog between shareholders, executives and directors is essential. Yet a big hurdle remains. Regulations at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission strictly regulate not just what can be said, but where and to whom it can be said. Known as Regulation...; Tags: Shareholder, SEC, Blog, Director, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-04-21
McKinsey: Boards Consider Compliance a Pain: Corporate directors consider compliance issues a pain and want to spend more time developing long-term strategies and managing talent, according to a new survey by McKinsey Quarterly. The findings are hardly a surprise considering what boards have been through over the past six years with the Sarbanes-Oxley....; Tags: Human Resources, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Workforce Management, Director, McKinsey & Co., Peter Galuszka, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Board, Talent, Strategy; Blog posts 2008-04-09
Sprint Gets Rid of Four Directors: I've been beating up on the Sprint Nextel board of directors for months and it appears that someone in Kansas agrees with me: four out of 13 directors are stepping down. See this account. Two directors, Linda Koch Lorimer and Keith Bane, told the Securities and Exchange...; Tags: Board, Sprint Communications, Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Corporate Boards Responding More To Shareholders: Thanks to the Enron-style management lapses and collapses, shareholders suddenly find their collective voices being heard more than ever by boards of directors. For any investor who has ever suffered through an annual meeting, you know that shareholder proposals almost routinely get shot shot down by directors,...; Tags: Finance, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Proposal, Shareholder, Director, Board, Sean Silverthorne; Blog posts 2008-03-10

Study: Many Directors Think CEOs Are Overpaid. Will They Fix It?: 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...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Human Resources, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Benefits, Corporate Governance, CEO, Director, Board, Compensation; Blog posts 2008-02-05
Why Directors Should Not Become CEOs?: The Wall Street Journal's Joanne S. Lublin says today that in the latest version of management musical chairs, outside directors are moving insde as chi'ef executive officers. Because it's such a hassle to access the Journal site, here's the jist of what she...; Tags: William J. Holstein, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Corporate Governance, CEO, Director, Board, Wall Street Journal, Danger; Blog posts 2008-02-04
The New CEO Philosophy Regarding Boards: For many years, CEOs regarded boards as necessary evils. Their goal was to stack the board with people who wouldn't challenge management's authority. After Enron and Sarbanes-Oxley, boards veered in the other direction--they included more independenty directors who were more inclined to challenge and question a CEO and his or...; Tags: Board, Director, CEO, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2008-01-22
Why Governance Committees Need to Get Smarter: Following the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the audit committees of boards of directors got much stronger. In effect, they took over their companies' financial disclosure process. Compensation committees now are under big pressure to get a grip on CEO and overall executive compensation, and they appear to be responding. ...; Tags: Board, Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-12
How To Get Rid of a Bad Director: So you're the chief executive officer of a company and you rely on your board of directors for sound advice and counsel. But there's one director who isn't delivering. He or she doesn't read the meeting materials before hand. Dozes during the meeting. Goes on long-winded rants not related to...; Tags: Solution, Gig, Board, Problem, Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-12-05
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors: Minutes are the instant written record of a meeting or hearing. They often give an overview of the structure of the meeting, starting with a list of those present, a statement of the various issues before the participants, and each of their responses thereto. This is a template which can...; Tags: Corporate Law, Director, Board, Annual Meeting, Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Minutes, Home Business Online; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Waiver Of Notice Of The First Meeting Of Board Of Directors: This simple form constitutes the waiver of the director of the corporation. It would show that all notices of the first meeting of the board of directors of the corporation is waived and consents to the meeting to be held at the same place and immediately following the initial meeting...; Tags: Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, FreeBusinessForms.com, Business Operations, Director, Waiver, Board, Corporation; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Ratification Of Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Board Of Directors: Use this template to prepare a ratification of minutes of the annual meetings of the board of directors of a corporation.; Tags: Ratification, Annual Meeting, Board, Director, FreeBusinessForms.com, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Minutes Of The First Meeting Of The Board Of Directors: Board of Directors is appointed by the shareholders to take care of their best interest and act as representatives of the shareholders. A board meeting usually runs for a longer duration than the shareholders meeting and the frequency of the meeting is also more as compared to the shareholders meetings....; Tags: Shareholder, Board, Director, FreeBusinessForms.com, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Ratification of Minutes of the First Meeting of the Board of Director's: Ratification is the act of giving official sanction or approval to a formal document. This template can be used to ratify the minutes of the meetings of the first meeting of the board of directors.; Tags: Ratification, Board, Director, Home Business Online, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Ratification Of Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Board Of Directors: Ratification is the act of giving official sanction or approval to a formal document such as a treaty or constitution. It includes the process of adopting an international treaty by the legislature, a constitution, or another nationally binding document such as an amendment to a constitution by the agreement of...; Tags: Ratification, Board, Treaty, Director, Home Business Online, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law; Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Make Executive Sessions More Than Just Gripe Sessions: Ever since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the accompanying new rules from the major stock exchanges, boards of directors of publicly held companies have had to have a majority of independent directors. And many more today also have lead directors, even at companies where the CEO is also chairman...; Tags: Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Executive Session, CEO, Director, Board, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-11-15
Board Compensation: A Little Estrogen Goes a Long Way: Approximately 91% of S&P 500 companies have at least one woman on the board, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart, and, on average, those women are bringing in about $15,000 more annually than their male counterparts. The Corporate Library's annual pay survey indicated that median total compensation for male corporate directors is $104,375,...; Tags: Lori Deschene, Human Resources, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Benefits, Gender And Diversity, Corporate Governance, Corporate Library, Director, Board, Women, Compensation; Blog posts 2007-11-08
Is the Countrywide Board Voting With Its Feet?: Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros resigned from the board of the embattled Countrywide Financial Corp. this week, the third director to leave the board this year. Cisneros said he was leaving to spend more time as chairman of a firm that provides financing to U.S....; Tags: Urban Development Henry Cisneros, Director, Board, Countrywide Financial Corp., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, William J. Holstein; Blog posts 2007-10-26
Are Independent Directors a Benefit or Burden?: Since Sarbanes-Oxley a slew of new requirements and oversight found its way into the law books, one of which is the "outside director" requirement. Enron taught us that we needed a little more oversight in our boards -- and one solution was to require more independent board members. Are companies...; Tags: Jonathan Haeber, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Director, Benefit, Board; Blog posts 2007-10-02