I spoke to corporate and not-for-profit directors in Dallas, Texas, today, about board dynamics and board renewal. The subject of the length of board service and director retirement arose. I said there was a recent study that the optimal service …
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Ethical Leadership, Citizenship and Integrity
What boards and individual directors can learn from Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and managing conflicts of interest
What is the lesson here for boards of directors and individual directors and officers? Avoid conflicts of interest at all times, but if and when they do occur, the test is perception and process. Every board should have a conflict …
Regulators turning up anti-bribery heat on corporate boards: But will practices change?
Russia is one of the most corrupt nations in the world (see a recent anti-corruption story on Russia by the New York Times). It ranks 143rd of all 182 countries on Transparency International’s corruption perception index, with a score of …
Trust and integrity in corporate governance
I served on a panel this week with the CEO of a financial institution, among other panelists. We were talking about compliance with emerging governance regulations. The audience was primarily lawyers. Towards the end of the discussion, the CEO made …
SNC Lavalin and RBC in the News
If the CEO of SNC Lavalin allegedly over-rode his own CFO and breached the company’s code of ethics in authorizing $56 million of questionable payments to undisclosed agents that the federal Canadian police are now investigating, did the board of …
Boards and Sexual Assault on Campus
“As the graduate assistant put the sneakers in the locker, he looked into the shower. He saw a naked boy, Victim 2, whose age he estimated to be ten years old, with his hands up against the wall, being subjected …