You may not have noticed, but lots of investor eyes are turning these days to a Swedish model—and no, we don’t mean a blonde strutting the catwalk. Instead, the model they like is the Swedish way of nominating board members at public companies.
We’ll describe just what that method is, why it is compelling, how it might soon affect the United States, and what companies can do about it momentarily. First, however, it is worth spotlighting an under-the-radar trend of U.S. shareowners’ newfound appetite for corporate governance ideas from around the world.
By now everyone knows that the protracted ...