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Subject(s)

• Boards of directors [Browse]
• Corporate governance [Browse]

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. The bad/good old days : business and governance over four decades
• Ch. 2. The classic board dilemma : individual competence, collective impotence
• Ch. 3. Post-Enron governance : early reaction and flood of proposals
• Ch. 4. The director with character
• Ch. 5. The perfect board revisited
• Ch. 6. Director independence and definitional hazards
• Ch. 7. Declaration of independence? : board composition
• Ch. 8. Related directors : perception and reality
• Ch. 9. Differences between the U.S. and Canada in the role of board chairman : why?
• Ch. 10. Time demands on today's non-executive chairman
• Ch. 11. A larger role for today's non-executive chairman
• Ch. 12. The audit committee / David W. Smith
• Ch. 13. Compensation committee competence and independence : a work in progress / Ken Hugessen
• Ch. 14. The governance and nominating committee / Robert J. Harding
• Ch. 15. Senior executive compensation
• Ch. 16. Stock options I : improve their utility or abandon them
• Ch. 17. Stock options II : performance options
• Ch. 18. Stock options III : directors in the middle
• Ch. 19. A cautionary tale : a case study of director risk
• Ch. 20. On the frankness of directors when resigning from boards
• Ch. 21. Miscellaneous musings
• Ch. 22. Corporate and not-for-profit governance : similarities and differences
• Ch. 23. A personal take on ethics
• Ch. 24. Directorship : eleven easy lessons learned the hard way.

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ISBN

0470837306 :

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C - S

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