Hat tip to Ohio State University's Professor Dale Oesterle for alerting us in his Business Law Prof Blog to how Stanford University president John L Hennessy has made a killing from his...
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Last week, I chewed the fat with Professor Paul Healy, the James R. Williston Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Healy specialises in disclosure, corporate...
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In the past I have raised the question: would Sarbanes-Oxley work for the non-profit sector and for charities?My conclusion: probably not because the needs and constituencies of companies and...
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What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments...
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Investors' gripes in Japan are getting louder. With mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc under a cloud over negligence on money laundering and with Japanese regulators this month introducing new...
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Yes, it's that time of year to nominate the biggest turkeys since last November.This year's list is extensive. There's no shortage of candidates so I thought better list them all and let...
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The costs of Sarbanes-Oxley has prompted some smaller companies to delist themselves from the stock market and "go dark''. Instead of pouring money into accounting and legal costs, they...
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The murky governance of football's governing body FIFA and the role of its president Sepp Blatter has again been called into question. And FIFA is now a text-book example of how certain forms of...
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The fallout from the Hewlett-Packard pretexting spying scandal continues to grow.Blame it on a dysfunctional board that made it a disaster waiting to happen. Blame it on the toxic relationships in...
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Lies, damned lies and surveys.public relations outfit Weber Shandwick came out this week suggesting that chief executives are now more secure in their jobs.There was a 16 per cent decline in CEO...
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Just days after putting out his memo designed to allay staff concerns at Hewlett-Packard over the pretexting scandal, HP chief executive officer Mark Hurd seems to be in deep trouble with this...
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A new breed of investor is set to turn climate change into a corporate governance issue.What's emerging is the rise of the universal owners.These are institutions and pension funds that have...
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The Hewlett-Packard spy-pretexting fiasco will probably go down as a case study in flawed corporate governance.Here's a board that tried fixing a problem about a director leaking, and made a mess...
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The alpha male boss seems to be part of corporate life. The strong leader is always in demand. Witness the popularity of the Donald Trump Apprentice TV series which sends out the wrong message on how...
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What are the six tell-tale signs that you are working for a boss with an ego that casts a shadow?What out for the prominence of the boss's photo in the annual report; his (and it usually is a...
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What are the emerging trends in corporate governance? Will the Securities and Exchange Commission's new disclosure rules stop the lavish pay for senior executives? What impact has Sarbanes-Oxley...
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Motorola has scrapped its poison pill defence.The question is whether this signals a change in the corporate governance landscape and whether the pills, part of a corporate defence strategy, are...
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Backated options aren't just Limited to a few bad apples!Seems that more than 2200 US companies might have manipulated the timing of stock-option grants to executives between 1996 and 2005,...
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Is the world's biggest bank too big? That seems to be the question as we watch Citigroup lurching from one governance problem to the next.Certainly was the view expressed to me last night over...
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Generosity aside, Warren Buffett's gift to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has raised questioned questions about the governance of philanthropy.Concerns about governance and regulation have...
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The World Cup has highlighted attention on football's governing body FIFA runs itself and its president Sepp Blatter.Things have got so bad that FIFA has been forced to put out a press release...
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