Category: - eBoardmember

Top 10 Director Reads: 3rd Quarter 2015

10/4/2015

To compile a “best reads” list for corporate directors and director candidates is a challenge that keeps me on the cutting edge. Feel free to just review the list, provide feedback on what you like and challenge what you feel is not worthy of the list- maybe even make suggestions about what to read next.

1) A New Paradigm for Corporate Governance
By Martin Lipton
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Forum

2) Why More Corporate Board Candidates Are Saying ‘No’ to the Job
By Chana Schoenberger
Bloomberg Business

3) Understanding the US Listing Gap
By René Stulz, Professor of Finance at Ohio State University
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Forum

4) The Short-Termism Debate: Are There D&O Liability Issues Involved, Too?
By Kevin M. LaCroix
The D & O Dairy

5) Put the House in Order: An Interview with Former European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet
BCG Perspectives

6) CalSTRS Issues Board Composition Best Practices
By Marketwired

7) Making the Case for a Security Committee of the Board
By Catherine A. Allen
Shared Assessments Blog

8) Even Companies Facing Strong Economic Headwinds Can Deliver Superior Shareholder Value
BCG’s Annual Value Creators Report

9) Capital Allocation: From Back Office to Boardroom
KPMG Audit Committee Institute

10) Future Boardroom Issues That Will Challenge Directors
“Inside America’s Boardrooms” David Chun, CEO at Equilar, joins TK Kerstetter,

Top 10 Director Reads: 2nd Quarter 2015

6/22/2015

To compile a “best reads” list for corporate directors and director candidates is a challenge that keeps me on the cutting edge. Feel free to just review the list, provide feedback on what you like and challenge what you feel is not worthy of the list- maybe even make suggestions about what to read next.

1) Changing the Nature of Board Engagement
By Bill Huyett and Rodney Zemmel in McKinsey Quarterly - April 2015

2) Shareholder Activism: Who, What, When, and How?
Posted by Mary Ann Cloyd, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Forum

3) Balancing Division of Board Labor with Overall Director Responsibilities
Posted by Eric Geringswald, Corporation Service Company
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Forum

4) The Support-Challenge Tightrope in Board-CEO Interactions
Jean-Francois Manzoni, The Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organisational Development and Professor of Management Practice, INSEAD

5) Demystifying the Risks of Board-Level Risk Committees
By Jaclyn Jaeger in Compliance Week

6) Strategy, Risk Oversight Are Lead Areas of Boardroom Focus
By Deborah DeHaas in Deloitee Risk and Compliance Journal

7) DuPont Spent $15M to Keep Peltz Off Board
By Jeff Mordock in The News Journal, Delaware Online

8) “No Pay” Provisions: The Forgotten Middle Ground in The Fee-Shifting Battle
Posted by A. Thompson Bayliss, Abrams & Bayliss LLP
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation Forum

9) No 'Silver Bullet' in Battle for Board Effectiveness
By Richard Summerfield in Financier Worldwide

10) Becoming a Public Company Director: Interview Strategies
By Tracy E. Houston, Founder eBoardGuru™.com

Top 10 Director Reads: 1st Quarter 2015

4/3/2015

To compile a “best reads” list for corporate directors and director candidates is a challenge that keeps me on the cutting edge. Feel free to just review the list, provide feedback on what you like and challenge what you feel is not worthy of the list- maybe even make suggestions about what to read next.

1. Coping with a Still-Fragile Global Finance System
An Interview with Martin Wolf of the Financial Times

2. How the Best Board Directors Stay Involved
By Bill Huyett and Rodney Zemmel in HBR

3. Making Board Evaluations a Best Practice
By Marlisse Silver Sweeney in Corporate Counsel

4. Email Intelligence - Does Your Board Possess it?
By Donna DiMaggio Berger, Esq., Shareholder with Becker & Poliakoff.Blog

5. 2015 Investor Survey: Deconstructing Proxy Statements — What Matters to Investors
By David F. Larcker, Ronald Schneider, Brian Tayan, Aaron Boyd
Stanford University, RR Donnelley, and Equilar.

6. The Unintended Consequences of Proxy Access Elections
By David A. Katz, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz,Harvard Law Blog

7. What CEOs Are Afraid Of
By Roger Jones, HBR

8. Keeping Your Eye on Risk: A Guide for Boards
By Yelena M. Barychev and Jane K. Storero, The Legal Intelligencer

9. The real business of business
By Marc Goedhart, Tim Koller, and David Wessels, McKinsey

10. A New Focus on the Governance Committee
By Aaron Boyd, Director of Governance Research, Equilar

Top 10 Director Reads: 4th Quarter 2014

4/3/2015

To compile a “best reads” list for corporate directors and director candidates is a challenge that keeps me on the cutting edge. Feel free to just review the list, provide feedback on what you like and challenge what you feel is not worthy of the list- maybe even make suggestions about what to read next.

1. Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values
By Lawrence A. Cunningham, Author

2. Redefining Capitalism
By Eric Beinhocker and Nick Hanauer, consultants, McKinsey

3. Tesco's Meltdown Shines A Light On Board Evaluation
By Dina Medland, Forbe’s Contributor

4. Vanguard's McNabb, on Corporate Power
By Joseph N. DiStefano, Philly.com’s Business Writer

5. Twitter Slam Following a Whisper Campaign: The New Activist Investor Plan
By Christopher Westfall, FEI Daily

6. The Handpicked CEO Successor
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan, Stanford Closer Look Series

7. The Rise of Political Risk
By Edward Teach, CFO.com

8. Beyond the Duty of Care: 3 Sources of Director Liability
By John R. Monsky and Stephen J. Shimshak, Corporate Counsel

9. Shareholder Scrutiny and Executive Compensation
By Mathias Kronlund of the Department of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Shastri Sandy of the Department of Finance at the University of Missouri at Columbia.

10. 90% Of Investors Satisfied With Corporate Board Performance
Posted by Value Walk Staff

Top 10 Director Reads: 3rd Quarter 2014

4/3/2015

To compile a “best reads” list for corporate directors and director candidates is a challenge that keeps me on the cutting edge. Feel free to just review the list, provide feedback on what you like and challenge what you feel is not worthy of the list- maybe even make suggestions about what to read next.

1. Special Report on Ethics & Compliance
By David Bogoslaw, editor, Corporate Secretary

2. The Spotlight on Boards
By Martin Lipton, founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

3. Survey of Board Leadership 2014
By Robert E. Hallagan and Dennis Carey, both Vice Chairmen at Korn Ferry

4. Does the Composition of a Company’s Shareholder Base Really Matter?
By By Anne Beyer, David F. Larcker, and Brian Tayan, Stanford Closer Look Series

5. Boards Still Don’t See the Value of Digital
By Walter Frick, associate editor, Harvard Business Review

6. Is Climate Change a D&O Insurance Issue?
By Kevin M. LaCroix, attorney and Executive Vice President, RT ProExec, a division of R-T Specialty, LLC. RT

7. What the Boss Makes: Silicon Valley CEO Pay Can be Perplexing, No Indicator of Talents
By Steve Johnson, reporter, San Jose Mercury News

8. Strategic Principles for Competing in the Digital Age
By Martin Hirt and Paul Willmott, consultants, McKinsey

9. Replacing the Board: The Case for Outsourcing Company Boards.
By Economist Staff, Contributor

10. How Sudden CEO Deaths Help Us Understand Executive Compensation
By Patrick Clark