With COVID-19 applying financial pressures on hospitals and health systems of all sizes and geographic reach, the road to recovery presents a variety of challenges. However, the need to restructure and address financial and...more
5/26/2020
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Sixth in a series of updates on how the pandemic is informing basic elements of governance.
Boards should reconsider the scope of their primary and emergency executive and board succession practices to reflect circumstances...more
Healthcare providers facing emergency requests from government agencies in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis — including critical issues such as transfers of COVID-19 patients, opening closed facilities and...more
4/1/2020
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Given evolving Delaware law, understanding the difference between “risk oversight” and “risk management” is an increasingly important board task.
In the Marchand and Clovis decisions, the Delaware courts sent an important...more
1/24/2020
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IMPORTANT BOARD COMPOSITION DEVELOPMENT -
The board’s nominating committee will benefit from an overview of The Conference Board’s important new survey on board composition, turnover and refreshment.
According to the...more
5/31/2019
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Boards and management should make use of recent expanded guidance from the US Department of Justice to ensure that their compliance programs are considered “effective” if and when an investigation arises. Companies should...more
Executive Compensation Recoupment -
The most recent development in the prominent University of Louisville Foundation controversy is the release of an independent analysis suggesting that its senior executive leadership was...more
6/20/2018
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