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Corporate Boards Don't Focus on IT As Much As They Should Despite all the talk about IT/business alignment, a study finds that only 14% of corporate boards in all industries are actively involved in information technology even though board members say they believe IT plays a vital role. |
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Book Excerpt: 'The Future of Boards' In an excerpt from "The Future of Boards," the author discusses why directors are newly questioning their roles. |
Insurance & Technology
August 12, 2005
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CIOs Get Respect Seventy-five percent of global executives believe CIOs have a role to play on boards of directors. |
Bank Director
4th Quarter 2010
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2010 Director Compensation Review The results of the latest compensation survey offer an in-depth review of industry pay practices and reveal how the latest issues and trends in compensation are affecting banks and directors nationwide. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Building a Better Board While corporate board members take their jobs more seriously than ever, they are not necessarily as helpful or effective as they could be, says Harvard Business School senior lecturer Stephen Kaufman. |
CIO
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Boards Want to Learn About Emerging IT Issues Directors admit they aren't adequately engaged in topics such as social media and IT-enabled business innovation |
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March 28, 2014
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Corporate Boards Are Hungry for IT Info From CIOs Many board members want CIOs to give them more and better information -- especially about IT risk. |
Bank Director
3rd Quarter 2009 |
Compensation at the Fore In this sampling of bank directors' opinions on the hot topics of the day, we look at issues related to executive compensation. |
Inc.
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Smart Questions: How to Vet a Board Member There's a lot of talk these days about the lack of independent directors on corporate boards. But it's not just a big-company issue. There should be at least one outsider on your board, too. Here's what to ask to get the right person in the chair. |
BusinessWeek
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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. |
IndustryWeek
November 17, 2010 |
Board Member Today; CEO Tomorrow The number of Fortune 1000 directors who became the CEOs of the companies on whose boards they served more than doubled in the past year. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 22, 2003
Martha Lagace |
How to Build a Better Board Boards need to work smarter and with a design in mind, says Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch. Lorsch discusses his new book Back to the Drawing Board, co-written with Colin B. Carter. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 1, 2004 |
Getting Management on Board With Compliance Compliance and litigation readiness have blasted up the priority list of top management. Leading financial institutions have appointed general counsel into top management roles. Boards of directors are reviewing and approving technology solutions. |
Bank Director
3rd Quarter 2010
Jack Milligan |
This Plate Runneth Over Audit committee members are taking hits from all sides these days. |
Bank Technology News
September 2004
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Good Question: Bank Directors Want Answers From CIOs on IT Issues Board members need to know what their banks are doing to remain secure and compliant. More than ever, those answers lie with the IT team, forcing bank directors to become tech-savvy and forge close ties with the CIO. |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2011
Naomi Snyder |
A New Mandate for Risk Management The financial crisis revealed serious risk management deficiencies throughout the banking industry, and now the feds are forcing boards to accept direct responsibility for the risks their institutions take. |
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March 15, 2006
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Serenity Now! Board members worried about compliance-related lawsuits may want to revisit their directors' and officers' insurance policies. |
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. |
CIO
May 15, 2006
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Regulation's Silver Lining John Hagerty, vice president of research with AMR, says regulatory mandates have put a new spotlight on IT as a means to mitigate business risk. |
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. |
CFO
July 1, 2004
John P. Mello Jr. |
Director's Cut Board members are turning to specialized software to help manage their affairs. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2002
Kenneth L. Betts |
Avoiding Enron: Counseling the Audit Committee In general, the role of the audit committee is to review the financial operations and statements of a company and to affirm the integrity and accuracy of the preparation and dissemination of that information. Now audit committees need closer observation, support and liability protection. |
CFO
January 1, 2005
Roy Harris |
Across the Board Spurred by regulatory change, directors and CFOs forge a new relationship. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Corporate Boards Need to Wake Up One of investors' biggest problems -- whether they know it or not -- has been a tendency toward ineffective, entrenched boards of directors that don't do their primary job, which is to look out for shareholder interests. |
BusinessWeek
June 27, 2005
Joseph Webe |
How The Best Boards Stay Clued In Director John A. Krol says a culture of openness has helped turn Tyco around. |
CIO
December 14, 2010 |
Why Boards Need CIOs Suzanne Woosley, a veteran corporate board director, makes the case for CIOs as corporate advisors. |
Insurance & Technology
December 23, 2005 |
Rethinking Risk Management Many firms have allocated a disproportionate amount of resources to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, according to a new report. |
U.S. Banker
April 2010
Michael Sisk |
Boardroom Burdens Bank directors must be more hands-on than ever, exercising tighter control over management and setting strategic direction. Here are five issues that need attention now. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 30, 2003 |
Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end? |
CIO
November 14, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
CIOs Say Corporate Directors Are Clueless About IT Our exclusive research shows that boards of directors still don't understand the role that IT can play in driving business innovation. It's the CIO's job to change that. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2000 |
Corporate Governance Roundtable At this year's NAREIT Law and Accounting Conference, one of the most talked about panel discussions was on the topic of corporate governance... |
National Defense
October 2015
Berry & Hutchens |
Creating an Ethics Compliance Program Government agencies and mature prime contractors expect emerging contractors to reflect the same "culture of ethics and compliance" that large companies commit substantial resources to implementing. |
BusinessWeek
January 22, 2007
Byrnes & Sasseen |
Board of Hard Knocks Activist shareholders, tougher rules, and anger over CEO pay have put directors on the hot seat. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2003
Steve Bergsman |
Independent Voice Four independent directors share their thoughts on joining the REIT industry, making the time commitment and dealing with stricter governance standards. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2002
Steve Bergsman |
Direct Effect As the focus on corporate governance issues intensifies, real estate companies will need to ensure that board composition and practices keep pace with rapid changes at all publicly traded companies. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2005
Abigail La Croix |
5 Questions Michael R. Young, a litigation attorney and partner at New York law firm Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, shares his perspective on financial reporting and the securities industry, with particular emphasis on accounting irregularities. |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004 |
"You Cannot Legislate Honesty" Fund manager Robert Olstein, in a candid interview, says the SEC regulators have overstepped the mark. |
The Motley Fool
March 10, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Barring Bad Board Directors The SEC is cracking down, but enforcement is a problem. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 17, 2007
Malcolm Salter |
Learning from Private-Equity Boards Boards of professionally sponsored buyouts are more informed, hands-on, and interventionist than public company boards. The author argues that this board model could have helped Enron and perhaps your company as well. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Look On the Bright Side Rather than letting the clouds of regulation rain on their operations, insurers that look for compliance's silver lining have an opportunity to improve their business processes. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Corporate Boards Are Broken Extreme measures are needed to get boards to do their jobs. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
The Battle for Independence Shareholders need more independent minds and critical thinkers on corporate boards. |
| 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
December 28, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
1 Path to Better Boards in 2012 Strong companies require strong directors; diversity would help. |
CIO
November 14, 2012
Maryfran Johnson |
CIOs: You Can Rescue Your Board Members of the board of directors are dangerously undereducated about IT. We have advice on how to fix that (in ways that will resonate with the directors and not scare them off). |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2010
Jack Milligan |
Knee Deep in Regulation As part of the fallout from the latest financial crisis, bankers are wading through new layers of regulation while scanning for clearer skies ahead. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2010 |
The Motley Fool's Testimony on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Empowerment Shareholders should have a bigger say in how companies are run. |
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. |
CFO
January 1, 2005
Julia Homer |
Friends on Board CFOs are spending more time with directors outside the boardroom. |
