Lessons from Tesco’s accounting nightmare
Tesco’s leadership team and its board of directors are under fire for accounting errors that led to an overstated profit forecast...
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Strategic motivating terms: encouraging boardroom change
Consider the myriad of instances over the past few years in which board directors have appeared woefully unresponsive or ill...
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Cyber haunting we will go
With Halloween less than two weeks away, forget haunted houses, Walking Dead parties and masks that drip ‘blood’. Ransomware that...
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Board makeup first key to inspiring innovation, says NACD
Reatha Clark King, Board Chair of the National Association of Corporate Directors, opened the 2014 Board Leadership Conference by...
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One-stop shop to manage foreign entity risk
As more US companies expand into new geographic territories, it’s more crucial than ever for corporate secretaries and other...
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Boards of the most global firms come up short in foreign experience
There’s a mismatch of mega proportions in corporate boardrooms. The disparity between the largest companies’ global footprints and...
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New evidence in favor of proxy access?
Much like say on pay and majority voting proposals, CFA Institute expects proxy access would also motivate increased engagement...
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Last chance to avoid unclaimed property audit in Delaware
When it comes to compliance, filing annual unclaimed property reports with the state in which they’re incorporated is often...
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Concerns about combining the GC and corporate secretary roles
In early September, I posted a query on the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals’ online discussion board...
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Making data governance a bigger priority
Data governance initiatives aren’t keeping pace with the efforts US companies are putting into other kinds of data projects, such...
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