Board’s role in M&A
In this age of shareholder rights and director fiduciary responsibility, a lot of attention is being focused on the board’s role...
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Great expectations
Activist investors, especially hedge funds, have an obsession with corporate boards. More and more, they say they want a seat at...
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Cross-border compliance
Get a group of CEOs and board chairmen together, as Foley & Lardner recently did in its headline panel at the National Directors...
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Inside investigations
Regulatory scrutiny of public corporations has intensified incredibly in recent years. From governance critics, prosecutors, SEC...
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Manning the ramparts
If you ask a European about shareholder activism, you will typically hear that this is an American idea, about as refined as a...
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Fighting excessive pay
What with being responsible for a giant labor organization’s legal matters, sitting on committees and performing a glut of other...
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Banking on a change?
When, in early March, North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole came out in favor of restricting Sarbanes-Oxley’s power over banks...
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Striking the right tone
There is no question that the expectations placed on board members have changed in recent years. Serving on a board today is...
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Creating the perfect director
Heinz’s historic ‘57 Varieties’ slogan stressed the breadth of its product line, but the company liked just one approach for its...
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Making history, one word at a time
Many years ago, one of my student vacation jobs was to bag and burn the shelves of yellowing paper cluttering up the cellars of an...
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