Offers a practical set of tools to carry out the complex work of the board of directors, such as health and safety governance, IT governance, and how to manage risk. Includes checklists, templates and tables.
Remember Michael Porter?”.1 Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School is a leading authority on business strategy theory and practice. This chapter uses a model for strategic business planning based on his work.
Maryland 109 McDonald's 221,416 McEntee, Gerald W. 196 MCI 391 McKesson 366 McKinnell, Hank 385 McNealy, Scott G. 266 McPadden v. Sidhu 278 Means, Gardiner C. 120, 124, 126, 350 media and journalists 14, 282 meetings 118, 263,264, ...
In the mid-1960s former Supreme Court justice Arthur Goldberg recommended that boards of directors have their own professional staffs. When Justice Goldberg was a member of the board of TWA, he tried unsuccessfully to obtain funding for ...
For his company, Hollinger International (through which he controlled The Daily Telegraph), Lord Black assembled a board of directors including former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, senior official with Ronald Reagan, ...
Topics covered include the role of institutional investors, the corporate board, the market for corporate control, management buy-outs and venture capital, regulation and auditing, and governance in the public sector
This is the one volume you need in order to understand the fundamental issues currently facing the corporate world and those it serves; I cannot commend it too highly.” — Adrian Cadbury “In the 5th edition of ‘Corporate ...
'I see a lot more things to do in Europe than in the US, and a lot of that is due to valuation and opportunity and growth ... They follow San Francisco-based ValueAct, which built a 10.8 per cent stake in Rolls-Royce beginning in 2015, ...
Commentators blame compensation devices such as stock options for promoting risk-seeking behaviour and dubious lending practices that have led to the collapse of some banks and the state rescue of others.
The most accessible and user-friendly introduction to corporate governance, providing broad coverage of international issues and clear examples of theory in a business context.
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Corporate Governance: An Action Plan for Profitability and Business Success
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Icsa Qualifying Programme
James E. Koenig, with the company since 1987 and CFO since 1989, was the incumbent and had hence overseen several years of the restructuring charges. If, as Dean Buntrock said, “no one believes our numbers,” the problem was clearly ...
However, after World War II, when Thomas J. was grown up and ready to assume his rightful role in the company, Jan refused to cede control. It took a legal battle that lasted for nearly two decades for Thomas to regain ownership.
This book also highlights how prevailing corporate governance norms operate within their broader market and societal context.
Those already involved in the governance arena may find the book refreshing, and may use it to coach others. This book can serve as a reference book in any offering of a course at any academic level.
The text is the first to draw together the various strands of the debate from economics, finance, and accounting perspectives, and from an international angle that includes discussion of the issues as they relate to governance in the UK, ...