-
9:24 AM EST 2/21/2008
Nell Minow: What Went Wrong at Citi, MerrillNell Minow, editor of The Corporate Library, has been a gadfly and corporate critic for many years. Her No. 1 issue these days is compensation for chief executive officers. And she's right that mismanagement of CEO compensation played a role in what went wrong at the top of some of the nation's larg...
-
11:12 AM EST 11/18/2008
Nell Minow's 8-Point Plan for Better GovernanceLongtime activist for shareholder rights Nell Minow has an eight-point plan for President-elect Barack Obama. The editor of The Corporate Library believes that Obama will have very little time and that the financial crisis shows a need for better corporate governance that "has never been clea...
-
1:42 PM EDT 3/14/2011
Do We Still Need Public Broadcasting? Newton Minow Says Yes!Taxpayer-supported public broadcasting is under attack, accused of bias, captured on video in an embarrassing sting (less embarrassing if you view the unedited version), and harder to justify in an era when all government expenditures are on the table and cable and broadband provide almost-infinite ...
-
1:14 PM EST 1/7/2011
Yes, Bank Boards Are Lousy. And Who's To Blame For That?Former Fidelity investment chief Robert Pozen is hot and bothered about the boards of banking companies. Nell Minow asks: Why complain, when you have the power?
-
11:21 AM EDT 7/12/2011
Rupert's Board: Too Weak to Stand Up to Him Then -- or For Him NowRupert Murdoch is finally on the wrong side of the tipping point, and it's his own fault for setting up a governance structure so ineffective that major failures were inevitable.
-
1:55 PM EDT 7/8/2011
3 Lessons for Managers from "Horrible Bosses"The characters in Horrible Bosses are upfront about where they got the idea. Their plan to trade murders to get rid of each other's problems is inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller Strangers on a Train and the not-so classic Danny DeVito and Billy Crystal comedy Throw Momma From the Tra...
-
7:49 AM EDT 7/6/2011
Corruption Risk -- Money, Reputation, Even Life On the LineAn international corruption trial in China imposed the death penalty (with a reprieve) on a China Mobile executive found to have taken bribes from Siemens. His colleague received a 15-year prison term. Siemens had already paid a record $1.6 billion in 2008 to settle U.S. and German corruption charge...
-
4:24 PM EDT 7/5/2011
Why the Tweet Is Mightier Than the AdA multimillion dollar, multi-platform ad will never be as credible as a recommendation from a trusted friend. A new study shows that increasingly anonymous online commenters fall into the trusted friend category when they include two key elements -- neither of which are enthusiastic approval. What...
-
4:32 PM EDT 6/30/2011
How to Avoid Humiliatingly Awkward Business PortraitsThe wildly popular website Awkward Family Photos is beginning to branch off into awkward office photos, so now is a good time to make sure that you and your colleagues do not end up among the contestants. Whether it's on a web page, a brochure, or your annual report, your business portrait is you...
-
7:53 AM EDT 6/16/2011
Small Print: Proxy Season's Most Outrageous DisclosuresThanks to my eagle-eyed colleagues at GovernanceMetrics International, here are some of the year's silliest and most appalling proxy disclosures.
- Narrow search
- Date
- This Year (18)
- Media Type
- Story (73)
- Video (1)
- Blog (1)
- Type
- Markets & Investing (51)
- Leadership (8)
- HOME (4)
- CBS Evening News (3)
- U.S. (3)
- See all
- Shows
- Markets & Investing (51)
- Leadership (8)
- CBS Evening News (3)
- U.S. (3)
- Saturday Morning (2)
- See all
