Governance
In 2003, Gen. Stanley McChrystal took command of the United States’ Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), an association of elite forces such as the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, and Delta Force. His mission: to defeat al-Qaida in Iraq.
JSOC had superior technology, skills, and resources. They were...
The Securities and Exchange Commission's roundtable on proxy advisory firms in December was long overdue. In July 2010, the agency asked for public comment about these organizations in light of growing concerns that "proxy advisory firms may be subject to conflicts of interest or may fail to...
Alan Clutterbuck spent a decade working at his family’s Buenos Aires-based textile business before a series of events shifted his focus to improving the political dialogue in his native Argentina, a country with a long history of political fractiousness. Clutterbuck, who received his MBA from...
The litany of prominent corporate failures in the last decade — Enron, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, and so on — ushered in an increase in regulatory requirements for corporate governance. The result is that every year, companies spend tens of millions of dollars on incentive compensation, director...
A Real Look at Real World Corporate Governanceby David Larcker and Brian Tayan (edited by Michelle E. Gutman)
Larcker and Tayan, 2013
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A new study conducted by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, and The Miles Group reveals that boardrooms are giving poor grades to CEOs for their mentoring skills and board...
The proxy fight at JPMorgan Chase & Co. over whether to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive — and thus strip Jamie Dimon of the title of chairman — has become a media spectacle and a Rorschach test for arguments about CEO power, shareholder rights, and Dimon himself.
Two major...