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The OECD recommends placing firms at arms-length from politicians’ short-term interests, appointing independent boards, enhancing disclosure, monitoring conflicts of interests, and hiring professional managers.
Many firms have already eliminated anti-takeover provisions in recent years, removing staggered boards and supermajority requirements for mergers.
The washing machine liberated women from spending endless hours carrying water and beating clothing on scrub boards.
Governments could also create appeals boards with the power to accelerate rulings on rejected projects.
We should also reject monetary straitjackets -- like currency boards and fixed exchange rates -- which impose the gold-standard.
The same applies to extensive government borrowing from abroad, to currency boards, even to currency unions.
After all, they have corporate-governance rules and policies, supervisory and management boards, and annual shareholders’ meetings.
They undergo independent international audits, publish annual reports, and maintain boards with independent directors.
Moreover, because maximizing shareholder value is a poor incentive for workers and middle managers, companies’ boards have increasingly centralized power around chief executives, thereby encouraging a “heroic” form of leadership that is detached from the rest of the enterprise.
Almost identical is the balboa in Panama, which is interchangeable with the dollar 1 to 1 and the currency boards in Argentina and Hong Kong, which are committed to creating currency only in exchange for a specified amount of U.S. dollars, and to having at all times dollar reserves equal to the dollar value of all the currency outstanding.
Hong Kong and Argentina retain the option of terminating their currency boards, changing the pegged rate, or introducing central bank features, as the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has done in a limited way.
Nonetheless, currency boards have a good record of surviving such crises intact.
But I also sit on the boards of Yandex in Russia, one of a small number of companies around the world who beat Google in their local markets, and of WPP, a worldwide advertising/marketing company famous for its rivalry with Google.
African countries adopted commodity boards for coffee and cocoa.
Whereas members of the Fed’s Washington-based Board of Governors are nominated by the US president, subject to Senate confirmation, the presidents of the regional Federal Reserve banks are appointed by local boards.
Moreover, nationalizing banks would have required dismissing Wall Street captains and their boards for grossly mismanaging their firms.
Meanwhile, Wall Street chieftains and their boards of directors have nothing to fear from government.
Many are charities and often include on their advisory boards one or two members with clear government connections (the daughter of a minister or an army general, or, in a couple of notable instances, the President's wife).
By creating a more equal environment among shareholders, ensuring more disclosure and transparency, specifying the responsibilities of company boards, and requiring outside independent directors on company boards, the codes enshrine changes that make Japan more attractive for foreign investors.
Companies and boards ignore this trend at their peril.
Moreover, though the price-earnings ratio on China’s main boards remain low relative to the advanced economies, the ratio of Shenzhen’s SMEs and ChiNext boards for smaller and newer companies exceed 30 and 50, respectively.
It is therefore the responsibility of editorial boards and the directors of organizations like the NBER to make open access obligatory.
Not only are fixed salaries revealed, but so are bonuses, fees for serving on boards of directors, returns on stock options, pension packages, and other perks, such as corporate jets or chauffeur-driven cars.
But critics argue that the best managers are not necessarily the best paid, that the market for them is not transparent, and that boards of directors are often partial to their presidents when setting compensation.
In response to the recurrence of well-publicized and highly damaging scandals in recent years, many universities and some entire national research funding agencies now convene “institutional review boards” to deal with breaches of what has come to be known as “research ethics.”
But are such boards necessary?
New data from a World Bank study that compares farm policies around the world since 1955 shows for the first time just how far today’s African governments have gone to reduce the cost to farmers of the export taxes, marketing boards, and other interventions imposed by previous regimes (www.worldbank.org/agdistortions).
Finally, some object that bankers dominate the boards of directors of the regional Reserve Banks, making it seem that the foxes are guarding the henhouse.
In a three-dimensional game, you will lose if you focus only on one board and fail to notice the other boards and the vertical connections among them.
Groups like the World Health Organization – which came under fierce criticism during the Ebola crisis – can learn from the 80% of American non-profit boards that have a formal process in place for a yearly evaluation of their CEO.
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