FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 330 Robin Bew and Henry Stoever of the NACD
Special committees have evolved as a key corporate governance mechanism to assist boards of directors in discharging their fiduciary duties. Applicable securities laws mandate the use of special committees in connection with...more
California’s common law “business judgment rule,” as described by the courts, protects from court intervention “those management decisions which are made by directors in good faith in what the directors believe is the...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published its final policy and rules to implement diversity and inclusion requirements for listed company boards and executive committees. The new FCA rules, which will apply as an...more
Since at least the 1970s and the publication of Milton Friedman's "shareholder primacy" doctrine, throughout the hostile takeover business culture of the 1980s, and during the more recent linking of executive compensation to...more
Second in a series of updates on how the pandemic is implicating basic governance topics. The role and operation of the board executive committee has been highlighted by the current pandemic-driven crisis...more
In this episode, I visit with Robyn Bew, the Director of Strategic Content Development for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and Henry Stoever, the Chief Marketing Officer for the NACD. They discuss what...more
Why it matters - As anticipated, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) released its Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, providing a process for financial institutions' management to gauge their...more