An environment of risk
In 2004, more than two years before Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ hit movie theatres nationwide, Cinergy, now part of Duke...
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Boardroom archive
Leading the Society of ‘doers’
The annual Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals national conference marks a changing of the guard when...
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United we stand
Earlier this spring the British consumer group Which? surprised corporate Europe by suing a sporting goods retailer on behalf of...
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Electronic media as compliance challenge
For decades, records managers toiled in relative obscurity, developing methods and processes to archive and retrieve the tons of...
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What lurks within…
As a by-product of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the NYSE added annual board self-assessment to its new listings rules. If handled...
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O, these naughty times indeed
What’s the modern shareholder to do? As Portia said in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: O, these naughty times, Puts...
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Cultural club
Globalization is pushing markets and stock exchanges to consolidate, and the broadening scope of collaboration indicates a...
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The power of perception
Each year brings new challenges for corporate directors. They contend with legislative changes from Sarbanes-Oxley on down...
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Going Private
When Texas utility TXU agreed in February to be taken private by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Texas Pacific Group and the private...
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Taking the wrong option
Directors and officers most often solve problems and settle crises for others. Now they are in their own heap of trouble. America...
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