Corporate governance - Vigil

Leo E. Strine, Jr., Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, the Austin Wakeman Scott Lecturer on Law and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, recently issued an essay that is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, which is available here. The abstract of Chief Justice Strine’s essay summarizes it as follows:

Family businesses and concentrated ownership have been the norm across time and place. Business historians like Alfred Chandler have noted these patterns with disapproval, attributing the decline of European industrial dominance in part to subjective “family capitalism,” and the advance of the United States to its development of objective and impersonal “managerial capitalism.”

NACD's 2017 Cyber Summit will equip directors and management team with the knowledge needed to foster cyber resiliency and confidently oversee cyber risk management. This highly interactive one-day forum will be led by NACD governance experts, The Internet Security Alliance (ISA), and other cyber authorities, featuring a mix of panel discussions, keynote presentations, case studies, and peer-to-peer insights.

Apple Inc. (NASD:AAPL) designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players to consumers, small and mid-sized businesses, and education, enterprise, and government customers worldwide.

The corporate governance landscape has become more complicated, making it more difficult for directors to manage the often inconsistent demands of multiple constituencies while pursuing the fundamental fiduciary obligation to act in the best interests of the corporation and its stockholders

In Volcano Stockholders Litigation, the Delaware Supreme Court, on February 9, 2017, in a one-sentence affirmance, upheld the Court of Chancery’s decision dismissing the post-closing challenge of the $1.2 billion merger of Volcano Corp. with Philips Holding USA Inc.

CEOs hired from outside a company are more likely to have poor business performance and short tenures if their new employer’s board is more diverse than corporate boards they previously served, a study finds.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2017-- The National Association of Corporate Directors, the advocate for the profession of directorship, today announced four resources designed to address the lack of cyber literac

As corporate directors prepare for the fast-approaching annual general meetings’ season, investors continue to pressure boards to strengthen their composition, and at least one shareholder proposal has emerged so far to air the issue of directors’ independence and tenure, specifically that of the lead director.

Moneyball Corporate Governance - how organizations take risk and inter-relate with their “social network.” Well-governed companies lead to better outcomes.

Tribune Media Co (TRCO.N), one of the largest U.S. television station operators, said on Tuesday that activist investor Starboard Value LP had taken a 6.6 percent stake in the company.