Four Tips for Working with Board Search Firms
As boards increasingly become less an informal network of cronies and more a hardworking corporate resource, the search for new board members becomes incr... Read story
Ralph Ward
Predictions for the Future Boardroom
Corporate governance is one of the fastest-changing fields in business, stirring almost as much recent turmoil as the exploding balloon of the dotcom and ... Read story
Need Boardroom Yardsticks? Here Are Five.
What are best, worst, and in-between practices in the boardroom? Here are a few answers to the question, "if you had one tool to measure the value of a bo... Read story
Handy Online Audit " Financial Literacy" Test
It's coming up on a year since the SEC and major stock exchanges started cracking down on "financial literacy" requirements for U.S. board audit committee... Read story
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Q: "At our company, those of us on the board have always had a fairly open communications with staff, but some of the things I've bee... Read story
The Earnings Management Crackdown
The SEC is cracking down hard on corporate earnings management ? but is your board? Everything from abuse of special charges to stuffing the sales pipelin... Read story
5 Clues To Your Boardroom " Pecking Order"
Take a group of high-achievers, put them together around a boardroom table, and give them ultimate fiduciary responsibility for a corporation, and some ve... Read story
Agenda Lifesavers, Big and Little
So you have a boardroom with important, high-net-worth people, who can only devote a limited amount of time to contributing to the success of your company... Read story
What If I Vote " No" ?
Q: " I' m on the board of a growing manufacturing company, and our chairman/CEO is launching a strong acquisition program. He' s worked out a deal to ... Read story
Reluctant Board Candidates: Friendly Persuasion
Every year, boardroom burdens increase, more board candidates find themselves "boarded up," and the average director tenure grows a bit shorter. As a resu... Read story
Board Evaluation: Liability Dangers?
Having a strong evaluation process for your board is so valuable and helpful in improving board quality that I almost hesitate to mention a potential down... Read story
How To Fight CEO Severance Battles
In case you haven't noticed, CEOs aren't sticking around as long as they used to. New York headhunters Pearl Meyer & Partners found 39 CEOs at the Fortune... Read story
Weeding Out Weak Board Members
Q: "I've recently taken over as CEO at our company, with a mandate for some restructuring and new initiatives. The board, however, co... Read story
Four Annual Meeting " Musts" For Your Board
It's annual meeting season and, once again, most companies will make poor use of their boards of directors. At a time when shareholders are feeling edgy, ... Read story
A Boardroom " Bill Of Rights"
You probably hear plenty about your duties and responsibilities as a corporate director. But what about your rights as a board member? Even good governanc... Read story
How Directors Can Help In A CEO Search
CEO turnover is increasing, and more companies are looking outside the firm to find new candidates who can turn things around. While these "external" sear... Read story
4 How-To Ideas For Global Directors
Though it's by no means a megatrend, the number of corporate boards adding international directors is steadily growing (even at smaller, hometown companie... Read story
Bankruptcy and Your Board: 6 Rules to Remember
As a result of the slump that's hit tech and dotcom stocks over the past year, combined with a general economic slowdown, many companies once swimming in ... Read story
Four Board Evaluation Problems - And Solutions
Corporate boards are figuring out that regular, pointed evaluation of themselves is vital to improving the job they do. But just because your board has ma... Read story
Hot Tip: The Smartest Phone Call A CEO Can Make
Bob Neuschel is a business professor at Northwestern University, and serves on many boards. He shares a gem of a CEO board communication tip that he finds... Read story
A Briefing On Fairness Opinions
Any board decisions involving major corporate decisions that affect corporate value -- mergers, buybacks, spinoffs, acquisitions, going private -- need an... Read story
My Most Awkward Boardroom Moment
The board of directors is an expert body that engages in highly professional, serious deliberation -- except when it doesn't. The next time a foul-up in y... Read story
Four Ways a Board Can Help Manage a Merger
A fidgety economy is doing nothing to slow the tide of mergers and acquisitions, but it is making more and more of the last decade' s brilliant deals look... Read story
Board Searches: What's Hot in 2001?
The search for boardroom talent continues, with the stakes growing ever higher as we demand more time, effort and specific skills of our directors. Every ... Read story
Give Your Board a Style Audit
Every corporate board develops its own unique chemistry based on such factors as membership, leadership, company history, and power blocs. But is your boa... Read story
Hot Tip: Board Conflict Resolution
To paraphrase a business cliché, a board where everyone thinks alike is a board where no one is thinking. As boardroom risks have increased, so has board... Read story
A Boardroom Generation Gap
The booming digital economy of the last decade has spawned lots of twentysomething zillionaires. Though their stock options may not be as rich as they wer... Read story
Finding Diverse Candidates for Your Board
Q. Our company is a major presence in our community, but we recently settled a discrimination suit that has brought local attention t... Read story
Common Boardroom Blunders of Novices
No one likes to be the new kid on the block, especially since it offers so many ways to make a fool of yourself. The boardroom is an even trickier venue f... Read story
New Rules of Etiquette for Board Communication
In the good old days (and they' re still not so " old" at a lot of companies), all communication between the board members and company staff was funneled ... Read story
Board Building Tips from the 2000 Inc. 500 #1 Company
The Parson Group just came in at #1 on the 2000 Inc. 500 list ( see article ), and Pa... Read story
Five Tips for Savvy Board Travel Planning
First, let? s accept that corporate travel gets more and more frustrating hassle every year. Next, let? s acknowledge that arranging travel for board meet... Read story
Best Practices: Boardroom Orientation
Orientation is crucial to bringing new board directors up to speed quickly, and it' s useful to see what a best-practice board puts into something as basi... Read story
Using Technology to Better Your Board
All of the new pressures hammering corporate governance lately boil down to one simple (if brutal) operational equation -- less time, plus more oversight,... Read story
Compensating an Advisory Board
Whether as a short-term, single-issue think tank or as a long-term panel of counselors, advisory boards offer companies valuable insights. But how (and ho... Read story
The Fundamentals of a Family-Business Advisory Board
Advisory boards are growing popular at family-held companies, where a "guidance but not governance" role is well suited to dealing with family owners. Jac... Read story
Five Tips for First-Time Board Members
For too long, corporate directors have been supposed to know everything, so much so that they're afraid to ask when they don't know something. This is mos... Read story
Your Board as Matchmaker
No doubt the wisdom your directors offer inside the boardroom is invaluable, but it's the networking and contacts they can deliver from outside that reall... Read story
Five Boardroom Flash Points for Young Companies
Younger companies often face some tricky issues that seem to pop up sooner or later, and a good board can be hugely helpful in dealing with them. Hal Shea... Read story
Attracting Top Names to Your Advisory Board
Q: Our software company is growing very fast, looking toward an IPO next year. However, our product competes with some really big, we... Read story
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