Corporate Board articles from November 2000

Corporate Board archives from November 2000

The Corporate Governance Committee.
November 1, 2000... The board of directors as a whole bears responsibility for assuring the honesty and completeness of company information, and for watching over management. Yet who watches the watchers? Myron M. Sheinfeld is a member of many corporate boards,...

Full Disclosure: Your Board And Regulation FD.(Fair Disclosure)
November 1, 2000... The SEC's new Regulation FD (for "Fair Disclosure") went into effect in October, but do you know the impact it will have on your role as a director? Did you realize that, as a board member, you are included in Regulation FD's new disclosure...

A Roadmap To Board Effectiveness.
November 1, 2000... The rapid change in governance demands over the past decade has made good boardroom practice a moving target. PricewaterhouseCoopers has prepared a major study of how benchmark boards function as we start the new century. The study's author...

Becoming A Corporate "Partner Of Choice".
November 1, 2000... Pioneering companies today often are not out there on the frontier alone. More are making smart use of partnerships and joint ventures to spread risk, broaden their talents, and speed development. Does your company make the best use of its...

Learning From The CEO.
November 1, 2000... In a business era of exploding knowledge and corporate opportunities, companies that become effective "learning organizations" gain a strong competitive edge. Directors need to add some new measures to their appraisal of the CEO's performance....

Stock pay is becoming the norm for director compensation.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Taking the most direct route to link directors' actions with shareholder interests, large U.S. corporations increasingly are paying outside directors with company stock. According to a study by William M. Mercer, Inc., equity grants to...

Internet company pay patterns are looking more traditional.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... PricewaterhouseCoopers' Unifi Network Internet Compensation Survey 2000 finds that as Internet companies mature, so do the pay practices of the online industry. The survey found that online companies are rewarding top executives with...

More companies ignore CEO pay limits, but more of the pay is based on performance.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... Increasingly, top American companies are asserting their independence and foregoing a federal tax break on compensation costs because it comes with strings attached, according to pay consultants Pearl Meyer & Partners. Under a 1993 law...

M&A skill is becoming a critical strategic asset.(mergers and acquisitions )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2000... A Conference Board study of mergers and acquisitions finds that more than 45 percent of major firms have made merger and acquisition integration a "core competency." M&A managers and teams are coming from a wide range of business disciplines,...

Regulation FD will chill investor relations, say IR professionals.(Securities and Exchange Commission's Regulation Fair Disclosure)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... A new survey of 462 investor relations professionals shows that 42 percent will probably limit communication practices and another 12 percent said they would limit their practices "significantly" with approval of the Securities and Exchange...

Employee turnover hits earnings and stock price.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Research by Sibson & Company shows that employee turnover replacement costs have reduced earnings and stock prices by an average of 38 percent in four high turnover industries--specialty retail, call center services, high tech, and fast food....

Ten years ago.(board of directors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The days when companies could be managed by a board that just sat in New York or Chicago are over. As the span of control increases for management in general, the span of understanding will take longer. What happens at the management level must...

Five years ago.(Malcolm Forbes' opinion on corporate directors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Directors have effectively been neutered by smart managements, but this is going to change. Directors are going to be more responsive to the marketplace and less and less to those who put them in their jobs. Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr. ...

Spoken & Written.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Articles & Speeches Stocks, bonds, roads, factories, equipment and other capital goods comprise only a small fraction of our national balance sheet. The vast majority of assets are in human capital--the skills and experience of people. We...

Conversations.(Jeffrey Sonnenfeld)(Brief Article)(Interview)
November 1, 2000... Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: How Boardroom Leaders Lead Few of the people who write on and consult with corporate boards have the impressive vitae (or the Rolodex) of Dr. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. A former professor at Harvard Business School, he spent...