Nacchio's travails follows on the heels of a long line of corporate executives convicted of corporate fraud scandals at companies like Enron and WorldCom around the turn of the century.
"The corporate establishment is making a mockery of shareholder democracy, " says Robert Monks, a founder of the Corporate Library and a leading guru of corporate governance.
Equity options have not solved all of the problems of corporate governance of the 1970s, and they have introduced some new ones.
According to Catalyst, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for women in the workplace, only 11% of corporate directors of Fortune 1000 companies are women.
Were he to succeed in doing so, many of the hundreds of corporate members of the organization would stand to benefit materially, as might Lawson himself.
The specter of corporate exploitation of pure science loomed large.
After all, few companies can boast that their CSR efforts are almost entirely driven by employee demand, which is the most genuine, sustainable and effective kind of corporate philanthropy of all.
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Pioneering the now common practice of corporate sponsorship of scientific ventures, he accepted the Dodge Brothers' offer to supply a fleet of cars and signed similar deals from the makers of Eveready flashlights, Smith-Corona typewriters, MJB coffee, Royal Cord tires and many other products.
Thus, as the Court announced the dawn of corporate criminal liability in Americawith an embrace of tort law, it simultaneously signaled to generations of prosecutors that arguments of necessity and public policy would, in the realm of corporate crime at least, carry great sway.
Yet a survey of 329 corporate-travel managers and business travellers published in February by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives found that only 17% of them now ranked environmental sustainability as a high priority, compared with 29% a year ago.
The art of corporate strategy is to capture the cost-saving and revenue-enhancing benefits of having many different businesses under the same corporate roof while limiting how much the problems of that common housing cost the corporate parent.
According to Catalyst, only 16% of the corporate officers of Fortune 500 firms are women.
On the state level, backdating could involve a breach of fiduciary duty, a waste of corporate assets and even a usurpation of a corporate opportunity.
In the wake of the corporate scandals of the past year, the idea that trustworthiness and business success go hand in hand now appears almost painfully naive.
Bethany McLean and Joseph Nocera, in All the Devils Are Here, make much of the corporate culture of the various Wall Street institutions involved in their tale.
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It dwells on the familiar problem of the corporate corruption of politics and regulatory agencies that weakens public oversight of privately owned firms charged with delivering public goods.
Yet, when we survey participants at IMD, which is probably a much-biased sample because of the corporate seniority of the people involved, the estimates of talent under-utilization are shocking.
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But critics argue that it unfairly burdens the vast majority of fair-dealing firms with extra costs, without actually tackling the bad business decisions that many of the corporate crimes of the dotcom era sought to cover up.
They have overbilled states such as New Mexico and Florida for tens of millions of dollars, not because of some clerical error, but because of a corporate policy of what is hard to believe is anything but outright larceny.
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However, comparisons between following Mr. Ferguson and some of the top corporate leaders of his era may not be apt.
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All three committed some of the biggest corporate blunders of the year.
Though Mr Greenberg leaves AIG's helm under a cloud, he will be remembered by many as one of the greatest corporate leaders of recent decades.
In other words all types of insider and corporate buying of their own shares and others for cash is down about 50% from the average monthly rate for all of 2011.
Leading this market are turnarounds like the NationalBank of Greece, the corporate parent of the Atlantic Bank of New York.
Both attempts failed because of corporate opposition, of all things.
The reform is therefore designed to avoid an undue reliance on the opinion of one corporate leader, and to seek a committee approach to the formulation of corporate strategy.
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Therefore, in the second half of 2012, Capone added the role of Corporate Vice President of Product Development to his CIO title, adding a very business-centric role to his one in IT.
If we take a look at one of the first waves of consumerization, the corporate use of personal devices (meaning smart phones and of course the iPad and other tablets), we can see that the benefits also come with responsibilities, that, if ignored, leave both end users and the IT department quite unhappy.
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Dr. Drobny spoke of a visionary in the corporate world of sustainability, Ray Anderson of Interface Carpet.
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Or worse, that it is part of a trend towards greater corporate control of the public sector, like charter schools.
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