Thus, even though there are more qualified diverse candidates for corporate board seats than ever before, fewer of these candidates are being chosen for corporate board seats.
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If this were any other board (corporate or nonprofit) there would be angry calls from constituents and sponsors for resignations.
Even though Aubrey is Darth Vader to shareholders, to the CHK board of corporate insiders, at the end of the day, he is still one of their own.
This past November the Sandridge board changed corporate bylaws requiring a majority of shares outstanding rather than a simple majority of shares voting to enact a change in corporate governance.
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How Runstad got on the elite board track is worth studying if you want to play the corporate board game.
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After a short stint in management consulting, Jeff served as CEO and Chairman of The Advisory Board Company and Chairman of the Corporate Executive Board.
Directors Desk enables its users to hold online board meetings where pivotal corporate data is shared among the attending board members in .pdf format.
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Women make up just 16.6 percent of corporate board officers at Fortune 500 companies.
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Who would have thought that only 15% of American corporate board positions would be held by women?
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President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that all government officials step down from corporate board positions by July 1.
Think about having the worst corporate board in America making baffling strategic decision after baffling strategic decision.
Through the Depression and the war Sidney rose steadily up the ranks, acquiring board seats and corporate contacts.
In the past, joining a corporate board conjured visions of networking at posh resorts with politicians and celebrities.
He is expected to report to the board's corporate policy committee this month.
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That change in culture should also come with hiring, he said, both in the companies and on the corporate board level.
For now, though, he is well-positioned to become a highly sought-after TV pundit, corporate board member, Silicon Valley partner, you name it.
Carter and Jay W. Lorsch: " Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World", Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
When Goldman Sachs has a corporate board meeting, you can bet that the topics discussed are important and have the potential to move financial markets.
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Internet message-board regulars and corporate titans such as Facebook Inc.
With many companies understandably angry over the loss of their favored treatment, they could likely be placated by an across-the-board cut in corporate income tax rates.
Specifically, the report finds that in the Fortune 100, between 2004 and 2010, white men increased their share of board seats in corporate America from 71.2% to 72.9%.
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According to a 2007 study by Corporate Board Member and PricewaterhouseCoopers, directors rate the community and activist shareholders as eighth and ninth in a list of nine most important constituencies they serve.
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Instead, a powerful new "force-multiplier" has begun to be brought to bear by government officials at both the federal and state levels, in corporate board rooms and by individual Americans across this country.
Liberal Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wants government appointees to step down from top level corporate board positions in an effort to make the country at least as attractive to investors as its BRIC counterparts.
He is chairman of the board's management development and compensation committee and also sits on the board's corporate governance committee and its finance committee, which oversees policies for managing credit and risk exposure at the firm.
Blagojevich had the power to appoint Obama's replacement and allegedly discussed doing so in exchange for either receiving a job with a nonprofit or union organization, a corporate board seat for his wife, campaign funds or a U.S. Cabinet post or ambassadorship.
Since then, Yang has helped nix a takeover over from Microsoft, overseen the launch of a pair of efforts that have yet to counter Google's edge in search advertising and caved to Carl Icahn's threat of a proxy fight by giving up three seats on Yahoo's board to the corporate raider.
Twenty years from now we may still be bemoaning the fact that even though women earn 57% of college degrees, hold 85% of the consumer purchasing purse, are 54% of voters and half the workplace, they're stuck at under one-fifth of congressional, corporate board, and top management seats.
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