Director Notes Archives
Director Notes is a series of online publications in which The Conference Board engages experts from several disciplines of business leadership (including corporate governance, risk oversight, and sustainability) in an open dialogue about topical issues of concern to member companies. Founded in 2010 by Matteo Tonello, Director Notes is released twice a month.
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- The Sustainability Business Case -- June 2013
- CEO-Chair Separation: If It Ain't Broken, Don't Fix It -- June 2013
- Corporate Director Selection and Recruitment -- May 2013
- Risk in the Boardroom -- May 2013
- Communicating Sustainability Leadership -- April 2013
- Peer Groups: Understanding CEO Compensation and a Proposal for a New Approach -- April 2013
- Sustainability in the Boardroom: A 2013 Update -- March 2013
- The Potential Cost and Value of ERM -- March 2013
- FCPA Enforcement Trends -- February 2013
- Preparing for a Succession Emergency -- February 2013
- The Bar is Rising on Sustainability Leadership -- January 2013
- Rethinking the Annual Meeting -- January 2013
- Achieving Pay for Performance -- December 2012
- Board Oversight of Management’s Risk Appetite and Tolerance -- December 2012
- Charting a Path to Sustainability Leadership -- November 2012
- Reporting on Corporate Sustainability Performance -- October 2012
- What Do Corporate Directors and Senior Managers Know About Social Media? -- October 2012
- Review of Shareholder Proposals on Environmental Issues -- October 2012
- Defining Pay in Pay for Performance -- September 2012
- When the Debt Incurred in a Cash Merger Causes the Target to Fail: Protecting Target Directors -- September 2012
- Handling a Corporate Crisis -- August 2012
- Strategic Risk Management: A Primer for Directors -- July 2012
- Stakeholder Dialogue in Germany, Italy, and the United States -- July 2012
- Collaboration Between Multistakeholder Standards: A Governance Perspective -- June 2012
- CEO Succession Planning: Current Developments, Shareholder Activism, and Disclosure Practices -- June 2012
- Linking Executive Compensation to Sustainability Performance -- June 2012
- Global Supply Chain Labor Standards -- May 2012
- Women on Boards: Review and Outlook -- May 2012
- Proxy Season 2012: The Year of Pay for Performance -- April 2012
- The Communication Patterns of Corporate Social Responsibility within and across Industries -- April 2012
- From Enron To Lehman Brothers: Lessons for Boards From Recent Corporate Governance Failures - March 2012
- The Influence of Proxy Advisory Firm Voting Recommendations on Say-on-Pay Votes and Executive Compensation Decisions
- Financial Reporting Challenges for 2012 -- February 2012
- The Way Forward: A Primer on Conducting an Independent Investigation -- February 2012
- Corporate Governance Practices for Initial Public Offerings in the United States -- January 2012
- Risk Oversight: Should Your Board Have a Separate Risk Committee? -- January 2012
- Activism and the Move toward Annual Director Elections -- December 2011
- The Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting -- November 2011
- Revisiting Justifications for Board Diversity -- November 2011
- The Role of the Board in Fraud Risk Management -- October 2011
- Excess Pay and the Dodd-Frank Clawback -- October 2011
- Assessing Pay for Performance -- October 2011
- SOP Drives Compensation Program Changes to Enhance Pay/Performance Link -- September 2011
- Effects of M&A Litigation -- August 2011
- Separation of Chair and CEO Roles: Importance of Industry Knowledge, Leadership Skills, and Attention to Board Process -- August 2011
- Making the Business Case for Corporate Philanthropy -- August 2011
- A Closer Look at Negative Say-on-Pay Votes During the 2011 Proxy Season -- July 2011
- Say on Pay in the 2011 Proxy Season: Lessons Learned and Coming Attractions for U.S. Public Companies -- July 2011
- SEC Enforcement Actions Against Outside Directors -- June 2011
- The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility -- June 2011
- Outbound M&A Activities by Indian Companies -- May 2011
- Does CEO Education Matter? -- May 2011
- The Role of CFOs in Material Accounting Manipulations -- May 2011
- Measuring the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility -- April 2011
- What Board Members Should Know About Communicating CSR -- March 2011
- Poison Pills in 2011 -- March 2011
- The Professionalization of Shareholder Activism in France -- February 2011
- Investing in CSR to Enhance Customer Value -- February 2011
- Risk Oversight Practices: Two Success Stories -- January 2011
- Some Thoughts for Boards of Directors in 2011 -- January 2011
- E-Proxy Reforms, Activism, and the Decline in Retail Shareholder Voting -- December 2010
- A Brief Overview of Corporate Governance Reforms in India -- December 2010
- Private Ordering and Proxy Access Rules: The Case for Prompt Attention -- December 2010
- Pay vs. Performance Disclosure: The Case for Prompt Attention -- November 2010
- Preparing for the 2011 Proxy Season -- November 2010
- Corporate Misconduct and the Market for Directorships -- November 2010
- Retaining Former CEOs on the Board -- October 2010
- Risk Oversight Practices: Insights from Corporate Directors -- September 2010
- Compensation-Related Risk and Compensation Consultants -- August 2010
- Board Diversity and Director Qualifications -- August 2010
- Board Leadership Structure -- August 2010
- The Role of the Board in Risk Oversight -- August 2010
- Know Your Shareholders: The Use of Cash-Settled Equity Derivatives to Hide Corporate Ownership Interests -- July 2010
- Sustainability in the Boardroom -- June 2010
- Examining the Impact of SEC Guidance Changes on CEO Succession Planning -- April 2010
- Investor Engagement in Europe in the Wake of the Shareholder Rights Directive Implementation -- April 2010
- Directors' Duties under the New SEC Rules on Disclosure Enhancement -- February 2010
- The Duty to Monitor under Delaware Law: from Caremark to Citigroup -- February 2010
- From Compliance Governance to Strategic Governance -- January 2010
- Directors’ Duties and the Pursuit of Social Investments -- January 2010
