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Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003	Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America.
HBS Working Knowledge August 9, 2004 Lucian A. Bebchuk	Bring Shareholders into the Board Room How can we improve board performance? One way is by reducing the extent to which boards are insulated from, and unaccountable to, shareholders.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2005 Jill Jusko	Beefed Up Boards More diligent and accountable, today's directors are scrutinizing executive compensation like never before -- and changing the dynamic of the board-management relationship.
Knowledge@Wharton May 7, 2003	Those Who Sit on Company Boards Face a New, Tougher Job Description Two longtime executives and board members talk about the changing role of boards of directors in what they say is becoming an increasingly volatile, litigious and risky environment.
CFO November 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Nanette Byrnes	Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others
CFO October 1, 2002	Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Matt Valley Editor	Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous What Corporate America needs is more integrity, not more due diligence and documentation. Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley consumes time that could be spent creating shareholder value and may encourage some public companies to go private.
CFO May 1, 2003 Arthur Levitt	You Are the Guardians Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt offers some pointed advice on how to restore confidence in corporate accounting.
Knowledge@Wharton December 18, 2002	Re-Examining the Role of the Chairman of the Board Faculty members at Wharton and a board member of a major U.S. corporation say that while there are some circumstances in which a division of authority between a chairman and a CEO may make sense, it is by no means a surefire way to keep companies on the straight and narrow.
Knowledge@Wharton	Enron's Board Gives Black Eye to Efforts Aimed at Improving Corporate Governance By not keeping Enron from barreling down the wrong track to a rendezvous with catastrophe, the board has given a black eye to efforts by other American firms to improve corporate governance in recent years...
The Motley Fool March 29, 2004 Eliot Cohen	Lies, Half-Truths, and Hubris Help the SEC make the right choice about fairer elections for boards of directors. Corporate insiders are spouting lies, half-truths, and hubris to prevent investors from getting a whiff of fairer elections for boards of directors.
CFO September 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland	No More Mr. Nice Guy A new CFO survey suggests why new rules for auditors may be a wise idea.
HBS Working Knowledge November 10, 2003	Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc.
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003	Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work?
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 Louis Lavelle	Governance: Backlash In The Executive Suite Many in America's business community say reform is going too far, as activists dig in.
Reason January 2006 Brian Doherty	You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation.
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 David Henry	Will Directors Morph Into Corporate Constables? Thanks to new federal sentencing guidelines, boards will be expected to do a far more thorough job of ensuring that no laws are being broken.
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Susan Cheng	Time to revamp `insider boards' Is the fate of corporate giants like WorldCom and Tyco looming at the door of some real estate investment trusts across the nation?
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2006 Dees Stribling	Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry.
CFO July 1, 2007 Scott Leibs	Five Years and Accounting This story is Part 1 in a three-part series on how corporate finance has changed since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed.
Foundation News & Commentary May/Jun 2005 Sarita Venkat	Director Independence & Charitable Contributions Despite SEC rulings, corporate governance and director independence are still somewhat subjective areas. Even a hint of impropriety can be a cause for concern.
Inc. September 2005 Amy Feldman	Surviving Sarbanes-Oxley A law intended to clean up big public companies has taken its toll on small private ones -- both financially and emotionally. But there may finally be relief in sight.
CIO January 15, 2003 Meridith Levinson	Get On Board - Corporate Governance CIOs are being sought-after to serve on corporate boards, a unique opportunity to help right many wrongs. But there are risks -- you must be prepared, be aware and be diligent when you jump on board.
Job Journal February 25, 2007 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros:Sports Stars Can't Compete with Overpaid CEOs Can America bring it's high-flying CEOs down to earth?
HBS Working Knowledge July 5, 2006 Joseph Hinsey	Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction Corporate governance reformers are pushing the idea of majority voting for directors. But that solution won't produce the desired outcome. The answer? Keep CEOs and board chairs separate.
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Barring Bad Board Directors The SEC is cracking down, but enforcement is a problem.
BusinessWeek April 25, 2005 Henry et al.	The Boss on the Sidelines Auditors, directors, and lawyers are asserting their new-age power, and the reason for their defiance is no great mystery. The watchdogs are finally facing genuine liability for their failures.
HBS Working Knowledge July 11, 2012 Jay Lorsch	Book Excerpt: 'The Future of Boards' In an excerpt from "The Future of Boards," the author discusses why directors are newly questioning their roles.
Knowledge@Wharton	Corporate Boards Should Focus on Performance, Not Conformance After the corporate governance revolution of the 1990s that led to a new era of accountability to shareholders, the Enron debacle has brought new attention to the role of corporate boards and governance...
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004 Capel et al.	Europe's Old Ways Die Fast The two-year bear market, and a slew of homegrown corporate scandals, is spurring European shareholders to stand up for their rights.
Knowledge@Wharton	Do Accountants Who Act as Consultants Take Greater Care or Cut Corners? New Wharton research challenges the idea that lucrative consulting contracts routinely lead auditors to look the other way when preparing financial audits, a key allegation in the scandals at WorldCom, Tyco and Enron.
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Dayana Yochim	It's Time for a Shareholder Revolution The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act is the most prominent, widely publicized proposal on corporate governance to come out of this crisis.
CFO September 1, 2003 Alix Nyberg	Sticker Shock When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, it didn't worry about how much it would cost companies. Today, CFOs are totting up the compliance bill -- and they don't like what they see.
InternetNews December 15, 2006 Roy Mark	SEC Brings Proxies Online Shareholders will soon be able to find proxy statements and annual reports online, according to new voluntary rules approved this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Louis Lavelle	A Simple Way To Make Boards Behave Requiring directors to win a majority of votes would give shareholders more say. Investors at as many as 100 companies will vote on nonbinding shareholder resolutions urging those companies to adopt majority voting.
CFO October 1, 2011 Sarah Johnson	Making Audits More Audible New rules would require auditors to speak up about possible problems, and describe in more detail what they do and don't look at.
BusinessWeek December 27, 2004 Amy Borrus	Auditors: The Leash Gets Shorter Providing tax services to audit clients will no longer be allowed.
Knowledge@Wharton	Why Smart People Do Unethical Things: What's behind another year of corporate scandals
BusinessWeek October 18, 2004 Anne Tergesen	In Your Fund Manager On Your Side? Until recently, most investors asked just one thing of their mutual funds: red-hot returns. Now, in the wake of the trading scandals, investors are also looking for fund management they can trust.
Financial Advisor June 2004 Gary Schneider	Fund Industry Being Forced In Wrong Direction In the aftermath of some of America's biggest scandals in the history of the mutual fund industry, proposed standards are wrongheaded and unnecessary.
Registered Rep. December 9, 2002 Will Leitch	I'm From the Government. I'm Here to Help You The prevailing mindset at the somewhat sparsely attended Securities Industry Association seminar on corporate governance Thursday was not fear of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- but the SEC's interpretation of it
CFO March 15, 2006 Anne Stuart	Serenity Now! Board members worried about compliance-related lawsuits may want to revisit their directors' and officers' insurance policies.
CFO October 1, 2002	Legal Unease A good board member is hard to find... the high price of audit reform... Congress takes aim at deferred compensation... etc.
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2003 Phillip Britt	Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley You need to go back to the 1930s to find laws that have had as much impact on the fundamental systems of REITs and other publicly traded companies.
CFO March 15, 2006 David M. Katz	A Tough Act to Follow What CFOs really think about Sarbox -- and how they would fix it. Included are the results of an exclusive survey of finance executives on the topic.
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004	"You Cannot Legislate Honesty" Fund manager Robert Olstein, in a candid interview, says the SEC regulators have overstepped the mark.
CFO March 1, 2003 Tim Reason	Two Weeks in January The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here's what was proposed and what was disposed.
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 Stephen B. Shepard	Straight Talk from Eliot Spitzer The New York Attorney General speaks on the mutual-fund investigations and other issues
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	Investors of the world, unite! Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street.