RESULTS
Which Committee Members Spend the Most Time in Meetings? February 25, 2010Audit committees spend more hours in meetings than other committees do, according to the 2009
Corporate Board Member/PricewaterhouseCoopers What Directors Think study. While that is not surprising, some may be surprised to see...
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Seven Smokin’ Hot Buttons September 02, 2009With economic turmoil in 2009 and many shareholder rights expected to be legislated in 2010, board members have an ever-increasing number of things to think about and plan for. Say-on-pay, majority voting, elimination of staggered boards, shareholder nomination of directors, and the trendiest word of late, risk, are examples of what’s on directors’ minds. The seven biggest worries right now? Take a look.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
What the Amended Rule 452 Means to You Third Quarter 2009The election of directors, once pretty much a breeze for anyone the nominating committee chose to put on the ballot, has become a lot less certain. Not only has plurality voting given way to majority voting at more than two-thirds of the Standard & Poor’s 500 companies, but management has lost its ace in the hole, the uninstructed broker vote.