Directorship

Facing a wave of criticism of overweening U.S. securities regulation from foreign shareholders and corporate executives, the Securities...

A long-awaited set of draft regulations affecting executive compensation is due to be released by the Securities and...

For years, suspicious business school researchers noted something fishy with the grant dates of stock options designed to...

In rousing fashion, the Delaware Supreme Court has affirmed the earlier ruling of the Chancery Court that none...

What happened at Home Depot's annual meeting is bound to have an impact on how many companies conduct...

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) held -a Webcast entitled "Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection." Ceres, a...

Euro Games ...

Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission put forth a 300-page document proposing a major overhaul of...

The management of intellectual property (IP) is not usually part of the typical board agenda - except perhaps...

Hank McKinnell, chief executive of Pfizer and a director at Exxon-Mobil and Moody's, argues that CEOs and boards...

There's a very important debate about whom directors represent when they sit down at the board table, and...

Opportunity is knocking this fall for Democrats to execute the same kind of clean sweep that Republicans achieved...

A Conversation With Sister Patricia Wolf ...

Mark W. Olson, a governor at the Federal Reserve and former partner at Ernst & Young, has been...

There are interesting stirrings from Standard & Poor's, the rating agency. It released a white paper entitled "Mandating...

In the age of Sarbanes-Oxley, you might be forgiven for thinking that by almost definition, making ample financial...

During the 2006 proxy season, the quest by activist shareholders to test the limits of their power intensified....

Sir Howard Stringer has received an avalanche of flattering press recently, and insiders say his pals in the...

Maurice R. "Hank Greenberg is in a fighting mood. He says that Sarbanes-Oxley and the U.S. regulatory climate...

Kenneth Starr, the prosecutor in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations, is attacking the Public Company Accounting Oversight...