Corporate Board articles from March 1996

Corporate Board archives from March 1996

Toward the independent board. (corporate boards)
March 1, 1996... It has been said that those who lived in the middle ages or the renaissance did not know they were living in the "middle ages" or the "renaissance." They simply thought they were living in their own familiar age, and they had no means of...

New private securities lawsuit reforms.
March 1, 1996... Christmas 1995 came a little early for public companies and their directors, management, underwriters and outside auditors. Their "gift" was new legislation designed to reform the nation's existing federal private securities litigation system and...

Paying in stock: a board blueprint. (includes related article on corporate director's compensation)(part one)
March 1, 1996... Pay for performance has become an essential management practice in many companies over the past decade. Except in the boardroom, that is. However, that is changing. The board of directors has become the last frontier in the trend toward pay for...

Paying in stock: the rank and file. (paying employees in stock)
March 1, 1996... Today, companies pay their people for performance, from the boardroom down to the shop floor. Compensation is increasingly linked to achievement of critical short- and longer-range business goals and, in the case of managers of public companies,...

The board's role in transforming the organization. (corporate board)
March 1, 1996... The situation is a familiar one. The chief executive has been talking for months about making a bold move to transform the business. Specifics have been few, but he has promised the board that something dramatic will happen soon. Meanwhile,...