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Supply chain video: Getting supply chain on the boardroom agenda
in Supplychainer, on May 1, 2009
...ain Summit in Europe event, half of the companies don't have supply chain representation in the boardroom even though it's quite important. That's why Cranfield University prepared a short...
Will RFID snowboard see the light of the day?
in The RFID Weblog, on March 13, 2009
... calculate the data delay which makes me feel that that this concept would never venture out of the boardroom because of the costs involved but the company states that the price would be well within r...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...39;s Lord Michael Hastings on this subject. He said what was needed was to change who gets into the boardroom. According to Lord Hastings, regulators should appoint independent directors on to boards....
Europe Feels the Crisis
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 20, 2008
... stability may become a priority - and opponents of offshoring may find new allies in the corporate boardroom.
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Lawyers take to boardrooms
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
...#39;s made big gains are the lawyers. Sarbanes-Oxley means we're now seeing more lawyers in the boardroom, reports Law.com . Because of the increasingly litigious environment, directors are now s...
Board witless
in Sox First, on July 21, 2008
While heads have rolled in response to the financial crisis, boards of directors have remained relatively unscathed. As the Financial Times points out, there is a real shortage of director talent when it comes to financial services. "One of the main charges levelled at directors of fina...
Lonna Keller Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 17, 2008
...ious and semi-precious materials in fluent, uncomplicated forms allow these pieces to travel to the boardroom as well as a night on the town.
Artist Statement
My work is a celebration of the femal...
Rich and poor: the CEO pay disconnect
in Sox First, on May 19, 2008
...moil. The European commission is pressing member countries to give more powers to shareholders over boardroom remuneration but has stopped short of demanding EU-wide action to restrict salaries and bo...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on May 18, 2008
...y got to Ballmer with a reality check, or if it's pure happenstance, and icahn 's public boardroom manueverings have simply convinced them that a chunk off the gazelle is better than no gaz...
The Masters Heads Into Day 2
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 11, 2008
Courtesy: golf.about.com
Day one is in the books. Day two will finish with a leaderboard that likely is completely different from Thursday (as I write this, it is mid-morning Friday).
That's the masters at Augusta. Tiger Woods said it best yesterday after finishing his round when h...
SOX-related boardroom changes and share price
in Sox First, on April 2, 2008
After the US Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, US companies were forced to overhaul their systems of corporate governance. A Raft of changes were introduced. Auditors were required report to audit committees, audit committee had to comprise directors who were independent from t...
Pit bulls and other directors
in Sox First, on March 1, 2008
Sitting on a dysfunctional board is soul-destroying. But what are the pathologies? Some good insights from Beverly Behan at BusinessWeek in her piece Boards Behaving Badly . Types she identifies are the "pit bull" who is a hostile bully, the "deer in the headlights" who lack...
How not to be a CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on February 27, 2008
...bit of a theme today.
First up, on Slashdot , we have "Gaffes that keep geeks from the boardroom," a discussion of the various clothing, attitude, and personal hygiene choices that ...
Boardroom breakdown
in Sox First, on January 16, 2008
Who is the youngest director in the US? And who is the oldest? The Corporate Library has an interesting breakdown of the demographics of US boards. As a snapshot of corporate governance, US style, its worth looking at. The Corporate Library's 2007 Governance Practices Report, published b...
Corporate governance 101: flattery will get you everywhere
in Sox First, on January 15, 2008
...tudy Flattery Will Get You Every-where (Especially If You Are a Male Caucasian): How Ingratiation, Boardroom Behavior, and Demographic Minority Status Affect Additional Board Appointments at U.S. Com...
Andrea Jung 进入 Apple 董事会
in M2 十字街口, on 2008-01-11
Ars Technica 消息 ,原雅芳公司主席兼 CEO Andrea Jung(钟彬娴)已经被选入 Apple 公司董事会。Jobs 似乎对这位女士相当具有信心,认为 Andrea Jung 的市场能力会为 Apple 带来新鲜血液。
Easy time for corporate crooks
in Sox First, on December 20, 2007
...clear message to every dishonest corporate leader: You will be exposed and you will be punished. No boardroom in America is above or beyond the law." But in the end, they were just words. That...
It's All About Retail
in Bizinformer, on December 17, 2007
...anticipated book for retailers called It's All About Retail.
Ann and I have been in the same Boardroom group for a number of years and with our shared background in retail sales we tend to grav...
Sox It to Your Finances
in Creative Weblogging, on November 15, 2007
...e:
Money issues on Wall Street due to some accounting rules changing
Sustainability in the boardroom and the struggle business have dealing with it
Businesses and the popularity of renewa...
Business struggles with sustainability
in Sox First, on November 14, 2007
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The good news is that sustainability is on the boardroom agenda. The bad news is that business doesn't know what to do about it. A new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Action or Aspi...
CEO revolving door continues
in Sox First, on November 7, 2007
... cent but CEOs are still more likely to be ejected from office than not. The study also found that boardroom infighting was taking its toll on CEOs. The proportion of CEOs leaving because of confli...
USPC Ends But Does Anyone Hear?
in Internet Poker, on October 8, 2007
...last week for the $600K + first prize. Or maybe The Donald didn't want ESPN sniffing around his boardroom any longer.
Gavin Smith, Full Tilt pro, excellent karaoke singer after his sixth shot, he...
Is Professional Dress Extinct?
in Bizinformer, on September 30, 2007
... vests and platform shoes?
In a recent article on MSN Careers they ask "do you dress for the boardroom or the mailroom?"
Sandy Dumont, an image consultant for the Virginia-based consult...
The Female Perspective
in Bizinformer, on August 25, 2007
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Biz Growth News by Krishna De
BizInformer by Deborah Chaddock Brown
BlogWrite for CEOs Debbie Weil
Boardroom for Women: No Nonsense Business Coaching by Norma Rist
Brain Based Biz by Dr. Robyn McMast...
How Do You Deal With A**Holes?
in Bizinformer, on July 23, 2007
...uot; word in this post. I am sorry in advance if this offends anyone, it isn't meant to.
In my boardroom meeting this past week, one of the participants, Ivana Taylor , was talking about the fac...
Who Is Solving the Problems?
in Bizinformer, on July 17, 2007
...the universe and seeing what solutions fresh eyes and uninvolved people can offer.
In my monthly boardroom group of business owners, our group leader, Norma Rist , leads us through a similar exercis...
CEO guillotine
in Sox First, on May 29, 2007
...th the board increased from 2 per cent in 1995 to 11 per cent between 2004 and 2006. And in Europe, boardroom power struggles drove 22 per cent of CEO departures in 2006. Try being inclusive in an en...
Independence vs diversity in the boardroom
in Sox First, on May 15, 2007
...irectors and look what happened to them. In her study, Marrying diversity and independence in the boardroom: Just how far have you come baby? , she argues that independence defined as an absence of ...
Principles for Responsible Investment hit $8 trillion
in Sox First, on May 1, 2007
... this report on how pension funds are bringing issues like climate change and human rights to the boardroom table. At this stage, this looks like a real trend and not a fad. The money coming into t...
Fixing the leaks at HP
in Sox First, on April 25, 2007
...others ending with a whimper, Hewlett-Packard is working hard to move on. It says that fixing the boardroom leaks and stopping a repeat of the ethical lapses is now a priority. HP's new ethic...
The Golf Patent Game
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 13, 2007
...the fight for equipment and ball supremacy on the course; what we don't see is the fight in the boardrooms and test labs.
One of the most powerful figures in the boardroom battles is the patent l...
April & Easter Wine Events
in Celebrate Wine, on April 5, 2007
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Classroom 201
The Rhone Valley
A "Director's Cut" Wine Tasting in The School's Boardroom
Available Seats: 2
The wines of the Rhone Valley are a lush cacophony of flavors & s...
Gatekeeper lawyers
in Sox First, on March 29, 2007
... and his proposals were written up in the Australian Institute of Company Directors newsletter The Boardroom Report . One of his proposals would put the lawyers in charge of the company's Stock ...
Home Biz Idea of the Week: House Cleaning Service Home Business
in Home Based Business, on March 19, 2007
... You're hopeless in the boardroom, you hate field work, but you can make a house spanking clean in a jiffy and without breaking a sweat. If you've been the Housewife Champion for House Clean...
Is 2007 the year to prick the CEO pay balloon?
in Sox First, on February 14, 2007
It's a sign of the times. Whole Foods Markets CEO John Mackey in a letter to his employees, republished in Fast Company , has announced that he is taking a massive pay cut - to just $1 a year. "The tremendous success of Whole Foods Market has provided me with far more money than I ever...
Lefsetz on Music is Life
in P2P File Sharing, on February 5, 2007
The major labels act as if music is new, proprietary, and controllable. It's not. Man has always had his music. It's the voice of the establishment and the Revolution , the group and the individual. So it's no surprise people take matters in their own hands to get their musical...
Lefsetz on Music is Life
in Digital Music - The Future, on February 5, 2007
The major labels act as if music is new, proprietary, and controllable. It's not. Man has always had his music. It's the voice of the establishment and the Revolution , the group and the individual. So it's no surprise people take matters in their own hands to get their musical...
ClearSky Bluetooth VoIP Conference Phone Kit from Trendnet
in The VoIP Weblog, on February 2, 2007
... the ClearSky Bluetooth VoIP Conference Phone Kit from Trendnet which functions as a conventional boardroom conferencing unit. It sits pretty cool with a LCD screen, speaker, control pad and three h...
Seven privacy rules: it's the ethics, not the law
in Sox First, on January 18, 2007
...ng their customer relationships than simply to simply to be told to steer around legal road blocks. Boardroom discussions should be less about what is permissable and prohibited and more about what is...
Top 10 business shenanigans for 2006
in Sox First, on December 25, 2006
What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments and business are copping plenty of heat to lift their game. And it's now coming from all Quar...
Jewelers Give the Personal Touch
in The Jewelry Weblog, on December 24, 2006
...ve a typical experience anymore. In the end they're collecting stories they can tell around the boardroom or the benefit parties.'' ...
Siemens bribery scandal grows
in Sox First, on December 16, 2006
...ture with Nokia in doubt . The uproar over the shonky deals looks like it will spill over into the boardroom with shareholders demanding the resignation of the company's chairman and expressing n...
The Grasso decision: is it really a turning point?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2006
...#39;s still to be determined however is whether this marks a shift in the compensation practices of boardrooms. Truth is there's a lot of water still to go under this bridge. Certainly, the initi...
The war in Hewlett-Packard's boardroom
in Sox First, on October 17, 2006
...ctional board that made it a disaster waiting to happen. Blame it on the toxic relationships in the boardroom. The war between former chairwoman Patricia Dunn and Tom Perkins is a case in point. All...
Interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on October 13, 2006
This week, I had a chat with Lord Michael hastings , the former journalist turned activist who works as KPMG's international director of corporate citizenship, when he is not sitting in the House of Lords in London. A champion of corporate social responsibility, Lord Hastings spent 12...
Connecticut Creates Hedge Fund Oversight Unit
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 10, 2006
The Connecticut Department of Banking has had enough. After watching multiple hedge funds fail, they have decided to create an oversight unit to detect fraud and other hedge fund problems.
The unit's main objective is to help prevent or detect fraud and will give the state greater ...
Glass ceilings and quotas
in Sox First, on September 26, 2006
Breaking the glass ceiling is not easy. According to one study , it would take women 40 years to catch up to men in the corporate world. That's assuming everything remains static on the other side of the fence. Norway has come with its own solution. Under a law to come into effect n...
Global warming, governance and universal owners
in Sox First, on September 21, 2006
A new breed of investor is set to turn climate change into a corporate governance issue. What's emerging is the rise of the universal owners. These are institutions and pension funds that have holdings across the entire economy and because their holdings encompass most sectors, markets and...
HP's lessons for boardrooms
in Sox First, on September 15, 2006
... operational experience. Here was a board that showed itself to be incapable of defusing a damaging boardroom battle when board member Walter Hewlett, son of one of the co-founders, voted in favor of ...
HP's phone bugging scandal: directors behaving badly
in Sox First, on September 7, 2006
Story of the week would have to be the revelations of Hewlett- Packard 's chairwoman Patricia Dunn spying on the home phone records of the company's directors, as reported in full detail the Newsweek website . Determined to find out who was leaking information to the media, Dunn c...
The Informatica WiFi Pen: "My Window is a Rain Detector"
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 24, 2006
...signal's strength.
"Execs looking to make a splash amongst the gadget cognoscenti in the boardroom should consider splashing out for this latest whizz-bang WiFi Detector Pen," writes ...
Gore: Apocalypse Now? Or When?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2006
Interesting commentary now coming up on the challenging polemic on climate change An Inconvenient Truth starring the once and maybe future presidential candidate Al Gore. The film has profound implications for everyone, including business, which is why the Exxon Mobil -backed Competitiv...
Bugging Business
in Sox First, on May 23, 2006
Plenty of debate since the USA Today report earlier this month that the national security Agency was using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to collect phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, most of whom weren't suspected of any crime. This affects not o...
Free book on corporate governance
in Sox First, on May 12, 2006
...overnance litigation, annual reports and meetings and best practice for corporate governance in the boardroom. You can download a copy of The Public Company Handbook:
A Corporate Governance and Discl...
The Mommy Wars
in The Parenting Weblog, on May 8, 2006
...hair-pulling started with the trend reported a few years back of high-level female CEOs fleeing the boardroom in gloomy frustration as they tried unsuccessfully to balance parenting and work. This adm...
Conrad Black's Boardroom: The Chronicles of Greed
in Sox First, on May 6, 2006
Conrad Black, like his hero Napoleon is facing his Waterloo with the US District Judge Amy St. Eve who will preside over Black's fraud trial next year, indicating she might run criminal background checks of potential jurors, according to a news report . No surprises then that newspaper pub...
New Solutions For Enterprise Information Management - Business Objects
in The CIO Weblog, on May 3, 2006
...of Business Objects. "A complete EIM approach will ensure that every decision maker - from the boardroom to the shop floor - is using correct, consistent data. Business Objects has developed a fu...
Climate change and corporate governance: the heat's on the boardroom
in Sox First, on March 16, 2006
Investment managers around the world will be focusing more on corporate governance, environmental management and globalisation when working out where to park their money, according to a new Mercer Investment Consulting report . And we're talking lots of cash here: 157 of the world's b...
Bugs in the boardroom
in Sox First, on March 10, 2006
...s are one thing. But the US Justice Department's antitrust division will be extending them into boardrooms under the Antitrust Investigative Improvements Act of 2005 introduced by Senators Mike ...
Non-executive directors: independence or competence?
in Sox First, on December 24, 2005
...tate of mind. A director can be formally independent and not psychologically independent within the boardroom. Canadian academic Richard Leblanc says competence is more important than independence. ...
women on board
in Sox First, on November 12, 2005
...oalition government in Oslo says it's considering introducing a law which would require 40% of boardroom posts to be filled by women . In theory, companies that fail to meet the proposed quota ri...
How effective are company directors? A checklist for analysts and investors
in Sox First, on November 12, 2005
...es in the wood? Naive passengers who don't ask the tough questions. The latest edition of Boardroom INSIDER gives some tips on what to look out for on a company's board when you want to...
The Concept of the IT Boardroom
in The CIO Weblog, on July 6, 2005
...cts and efforts really get run in the trenches is James' post, "Time To Set Up An 'IT Boardroom'" . A key passage from his blog:
We are all corporate governance expe...
Steve Ulfelder Writes About CIOs on Boards
in The CIO Weblog, on February 2, 2005
... In a prior post I wrote about "... Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room". Well Steve Ulfelder has got another great article on the same sort of topic with additio...
CFO Perspectives on the CIO and IT Function
in The CIO Weblog, on January 4, 2005
... Based on some comments on a prior post entitled, " Keep Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room " , I thought it would be good to share some thoughts about an article i...
CIO Weblog
in TJ's Weblog, on January 2, 2005
...s include: Are All Antes In for Instant Messaging in the Enterprise? Keep Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room. We wish happy blogging!
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CIO Weblog started
in The RFID Weblog, on January 2, 2005
...s include: Are All Antes In for Instant Messaging in the Enterprise? Keep Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room.
We wish happy blogging!
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CIO Weblog started
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 2, 2005
...s include: Are All Antes In for Instant Messaging in the Enterprise? Keep Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room. We wish happy blogging!
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Keep Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room
in The CIO Weblog, on December 29, 2004
Both the Silicon Valley Watcher and Gartner capture the tone for CIOs as we enter into 2005. The Silicon Valley Watcher described a panel of four leading CIOs (Levi Strauss and Company, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft, fireman 's Fund) as having a mood not unlike three funerals and a ...





