Ah, yes, the siren song of 2009 and the theme of the Obama administration:
Change.
Change, it seems, is both wanted and inevitable. But change in what direction? Later in this column are our predictions for how the corporate governance landscape will evolve in the next four years of the Obama Administration. But, first, let’s look in the rear-view mirror to the “whither corporate governance” predictions we made in this column in 2005, at the launch of the second Bush administration. It’s only fair that you know our record as prognosticators.
Our top prediction in 2005 was that more conflicts of ...