by | | Corporate Governance, In the News, Leadership & Strategy
Jeff Green, Bloomberg, December 19, 2017 The same-day deaths of two aging chief executive officers — industry icons in railroading and banking — show why some investors and governance experts want companies to disclose more about succession plans and...
by | | Corporate Governance, Crisis Management, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Reputation Management
Jef Feeley and Anders Melin, Bloomberg, December 13, 2017 Some Liberty Tax Inc. investors have lost patience with founder John Hewitt. A pension fund is asking a judge to order Hewitt to relinquish his controlling stake in the national tax-preparation...
by | | Corporate Governance, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Reputation Management, Women & Girls Leadership
Charles Stein, Laura Colby and Miles Weiss, Bloomberg, October 24, 2017 Fidelity Investments’ Abigail Johnson took center stage on Tuesday and counseled money managers gathering in Washington about charting their future in the digital world. But the chief...
by | | Corporate Governance, Crisis Management, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Reputation Management
Jeff Green and Jordyn Holman, Bloomberg, October 17, 2017 Corporate directors should now be on notice: bad behavior isn’t so easily swept under the rug. As a parade of executives has been outed as sexist, racist or both, boards have been called on to set...
by | | Audio & Visual Clips, Corporate Governance, Executive Presence, In the News, Leadership & Strategy
Scarlet Fu and Julie Hyman, Bloomberg, August 16, 2017 In today’s “Walk the Talk,” Davia Temin, head of the crisis-management firm Temin & Co., reacts to President Donald Trump’s decision to disband two advisory groups of U.S. business...
by | | Corporate Governance, Executive Presence, In the News, Leadership & Strategy, Reputation Management
Vanessa Fuhrmans, The Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2017 President Donald Trump’s response to the weekend violence in Charlottesville, Va., has sparked a new round of soul-searching in U.S. corporate boardrooms over whether they should keep working...
