Inside the Boardroom: How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate GovernanceDistinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directors In light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc's in-depth five-year study of 39 boards of directors of both for- and not-for-profit organizations, Building a Better Board goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of boards of directors, including how they make decisions. Recently chosen as one of Canada's "Top 40 Under 40"(TM), Dr Richard Leblanc is an award-winning teacher and researcher, certified management consultant, professional speaker, professor, lawyer and specialist on boards of directors. He can be reached at rleblanc@yorku.ca. James Gillies, PhD (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), is Professor Emeritus at the Schulich School of Business, York University, where he serves as Chair of the Canada-Russia Corporate Governance Program. |
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... impact boards ' operations , even though no one knows very much about how boards of directors work . For the first seventy - five years or so of the twentieth century , despite the fact that boards of directors had the responsibility ...
... impact on the performance of corporations ? The answer to the first question is , nobody knows . It is impossible to prove the negative . Without the increased regu- lations designed primarily to prevent conflicts of interest and to ...
... impact on the characteristic features of board members . In fact , there is some evi- dence - anecdotal , observational and otherwise - to suggest that it did not have much impact on creating actual independence within boards . Moreover ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Boards of Directors Have Failed and We Dont Know Why | 5 |
The Many Forms of the Modern Corporation | 31 |
Copyright | |
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