directors
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Bob discusses the DC Circuit Court decision regarding the SEC proxy rules in Dodd-Frank. The ruling "tells you more about the Court than it does the issue or the SEC." July 26, 2011.
July 28, 2011 | CEO power
, directors
, SEC
, proxy
, Dodd-Frank
, regulation
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Regarding the DC Circuit Court on SEC Proxy rules: a legal system that preserves the hegemony of the CEOs. What does a board do that would be impossible to do with an outside director there? July 26, 2011.
July 28, 2011 | CEO power
, directors
, SEC
, proxy
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Bob Monks talks about director liability -- one of the "polite lies of corporate governance." June 16, 2011.
June 29, 2011 | directors
, independent directors
, accountability
, fiduciary duty
, director liability
Thursday, January 1, 2004
2004 shareholder resolution to ExxonMobil proposing an independent chairman.
January 1, 2004 | Exxon
, annual meetings
, directors
, independent chairman
, shareholder resolutions
, shareholder resolutions
, ownership
Sunday, May 5, 1991
Independent directors? Take a closer look at how boards are chosen. 1991 article by Bob Monks in the New York Times.
May 5, 1991 | directors
, corporate governance
, independent directors
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
In thinking about director liability lately -- and it's a subject that never seems to go away -- I'm convinced that it's an underlying weakness in corporate governance. Can a director truly fulfill their required duty to shareholders if they are indemnified and insured against every action, word, deed…
June 29, 2011 | accountability
, directors
, fiduciary duty
, shareholder rights
, director liability
Thursday, April 28, 2011
This is the fifth post in my effort to clarify corporate governance terms that now seem misleading to me. We all know what these words mean in a literal sense but in the context of governance, of business and of our post-crash world do they still mean the same…
April 28, 2011 | accountability
, directors
, fiduciary duty
, independent directors
, Disinformation
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Some reflections after reading What's a Director to Do? By Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen. The emergence of the CEO as autocrat has reduced the position of boards of directors to "parsley on fish." If a different system is desired, boards will have to change in virtually all…
April 26, 2011 | accountability
, fiduciary duty
, board collegiality
, directors
, independent directors
Thursday, April 7, 2011
I talked with Ben Berkowitz of Reuters yesterday about the Berkshire Hathaway Board. Read the story.
April 7, 2011 | directors
, corporate governance
, independent directors
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
There has been a lot of news coverage about women serving on corporate boards recently. Be sure to see these: Nell Minow discussed it on her BNET blog and Governance Metrics International has just released a free report: 2011 Women on Boards. The report includes: -Statistics for countries…
March 9, 2011 | directors