Corporate Board articles from January 2001

Corporate Board archives from January 2001

Globalizing The Board Of Directors.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... The trend toward international business is becoming apparent in the boardroom. Yet how many companies are actually adding non-national directors to their boards, and how are these boards dealing with the new problems a global board can create?...

Keeping Your Board Informed.
January 1, 2001... Good information flow to the board is crucial, but too often boardroom information is either too massive, too skimpy, or off target. Are your directors receiving the company information they want and need, and is it timely? Also, are...

Loss Prevention In The Boardroom.
January 1, 2001... Liability lawyers have learned that the boardroom doors can be the easiest to breach when they seek to attack a corporation. Often, though, this vulnerability is a result of directors not knowing all of the impressive liability defenses that...

Executive Pay Today And Tomorrow.
January 1, 2001... The challenges boards today face in setting CEO pay have never been greater. Current pay plans have been shaped by a century of compensation trends and fads. Knowing how present CEO pay policies have been shaped (and mis-shaped) by this history...

Strategic Risk Responsibility.
January 1, 2001... Corporate risk management may seem like the only discipline even more dismal than economics, but boards today find that dealing with risk is a task they cannot avoid. Fiduciary duty now demands that boards appraise the company's risk exposures,...

More companies worldwide use stock to attract talent.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Companies around the world are increasing their use of stock and other long-term incentives (LTI) as a means of attracting and retaining key talent, according to a Towers Perrin study of current reward practices in 26 countries around the...

Study shows steady rise in "overhand rates".(equity-based incentives)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... For many years, it was common business practice for U.S. firms to limit their overhang--shares set aside for future grants plus shares already granted but not exercised--to 10 percent of common shares outstanding. That rule no longer...

Most mergers are viewed as having been a success.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Most companies consider their most significant merger integration in the last ten years to have been a success, according to a report by The Conference Board. The study was based on a survey of top HR managers of 134 companies that had a...

Boardroom issues are growing more global.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... More than three-quarters of the boards of the largest U.S. companies are now tackling international and global issues on a regular basis, according to the 27th Annual Board of Directors Study by Korn/Ferry International. Directors say that...

"Arms merchants" are the new value winners in the tech sector.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Some dot.com stocks may be in free fall, but shareholder confidence in the high-tech sector remains high, with investor enthusiasm focusing on the companies specializing in the "enabling technologies" powering the Internet's rise, according to...

Spoken & Written.
January 1, 2001... Articles & Speeches It is critical for accounting firms to recognize that public perceptions of auditor independence are enormously important. The accounting firms' credibility in the eyes of investors is their primary asset. When...

Directors' Register.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Recent Board Elections AGCO Corporation has elected to its board Wayne Booker, vice chairman of Ford Motor Company. Badger Paper Mills, Inc. has elected to its board Harold J. Bergman, former president of Riverside Paper Company. ...

Conversations.(Interview)
January 1, 2001... Tom Wyman: The Effective Lead Director When General Motors spun off its Delphi Systems parts division as a separate business in 1999, it overnight created the 21st largest corporation in the United States. With 2000 sales of $29 billion...

Ten years ago in The Corporate Board.
January 1, 2001... It is possible that, in the future, Japanese companies may face more pressure from shareholders to represent their interests. It is even possible that Westem shareholders may be elected to serve on boards. Whatever the outside forces, however,...

Five years ago in The Corporate Board.
January 1, 2001... For the foreseeable future, the burden of corporate governance rests with the board of directors. Individual directors--independent, informed, effective--form the keystone in the governance process. All we do to reinforce and promote these...

The number of women in corporate "clout" positions is up sharply.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... More Fortune 500 companies have advanced women in large numbers, according to the 2000 Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners. Ten percent, or 50, of Fortune 500 companies have women holding a quarter or more of corporate...

A new corporate governance institute will seek social and political changes.(Institute for International Corporate Governance and Accountability)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Institute for International Corporate Governance and Accountability has been formed at George Washington University. This Institute seeks to create "an international umbrella organization to bring together scholars, practitioners and...