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American commentators – and, increasingly, US judges – want to insulate CEOs and boards further from their firms’ trading shareholders.
Insulating CEOs and boards further from financial markets may perversely free them to focus even more narrowly on short-term results.
Bringing their collective $1.3 trillion in assets to bear, the coalition’s members plan to scrutinize the actions of boards of directors more closely, in order to strengthen accountability and encourage independent board leadership.
Sex, Lies, and LeadershipLONDON – News events can often serve as important catalysts for introspection, not least for members of company boards.
And criticism of excessive executive remuneration has led to frantic meetings by many boards’ compensation committees.
Even today, boards are sometimes choosing to defend their reputations at the expense of basic human decency.
What has become apparent lately is the power that boards of companies – as well as large investors, like pension and sovereign-wealth funds – have to help stop it.
These links were not confined to credit relations, but also extended to direct and indirect shareholdings by the banks and their representation on the supervisory boards of firms.
As the process of disintermediation adds to the influence of institutional investors other than banks, these nonbank investors are likely to become dominant shareholders and demand a larger say on the supervisory boards of German firms.
Because of this, their traditional position on many supervisory boards will have to be reassessed and eventually adapted to fit changing circumstances.
Most important, if corporate boards – and the lawyers, bankers, and accountants who advise companies and individuals – are to be vigilant about legal and ethical compliance, they must believe that they will be held accountable for their actions.
Three of them--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--have currency boards or a fixed exchange rate with the Euro, as does Bulgaria, which is expected to enter the EU in 2007.
Initially, even currency boards were considered unacceptable, although, as is often the case in Europe, exceptions were made: countries with currency boards could keep them after entry into the EU.
Unions should instead negotiate with management the same way top executives do with their boards of directors when their complex compensation packages are worked out.
The Global Economy’s Three GamesPARIS – Chess masters are able to play simultaneously on several boards with several partners.
It turned out that semiconductors were being fitted onto circuit boards in a mindless, primitive fashion, whereas potato chips were being produced through a highly automated process (which is how Pringles chips rest on each other perfectly).
It has taken months to find this out, but the same thing happened in 660 other local boards: roughly 120,000 votes – 30% of the total – were never made public.
If the results of these boards had been counted, the opposition would have won the capital’s mayoralty by a wide margin.
In 2014 and beyond, CEOs and their boards will need to establish new priorities, invest wisely, and be willing to support experimentation.
Currency boards and even dollarization are both now in vogue.
Boards on Their BacksWASHINGTON, DC – The recent governance controversy at JPMorgan Chase has masked a much larger issue.
Big banks’ boards are supine for three main reasons.
One cannot build up a significant shareholding and use it to put pressure on boards – let alone pursue a hostile takeover.
Regulators have the power to require that boards become more powerful – or at least minimally effective.
Instead, regulators stand idly by while bank boards remain self-perpetuating clubs, with membership regarded as little more than so much social plumage.
His fellow-surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.
Institution building is painful and laborious ("a slow boring of hard boards," as Max Weber called it), as evidenced in the recurrent crises faced by African countries from Nigeria to Botswana.
That’s because, in practice, job boards fail to fulfill their potential.
Even at their best, all job boards do is allocate scarce talent resources; they don’t create them.
Given the Murdoch companies’ far-reaching influence, the failures of their boards are all the more consequential.
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