Boards & Shareholders

One of the ongoing questions from members of boards of directors is how to resolve the tension between oversight and managing. An excellent starting point to understanding this role is to consider the metaphor, “put sand in the shoes of management.”

A government agency has forced a delay to a shareholder meeting that would have set the stage for a hostile takeover of the company at the heart of smartphone technology.

Ethics and compliance officers in the pharmaceutical industry can learn a lot from the troubles of Novartis, which faced a firestorm of criticism from shareholders at its last annual meeting.

Executive misconduct, cyber-breaches, global trade concerns, demands for transparency, and historic changes brought about by the new tax law are among the topics being discussed in corporate board rooms, according to a new report by BDO USA.

Autoliv, an automotive safety systems company, has added two new independent directors to the Autoliv Board, Hasse Johansson and Thaddeus “Ted” Senko, effective March 2. With the addition of Johansson and Senko, Autoliv has expanded its board size from nine to eleven directors.

Internal controls for a board or board compliance committee should be broken down into five concepts, says The Man From FCPA.

Chief compliance officer reporting to the appropriate board of director’s compliance committee has to be structured carefully to promote ethics and compliance. Inside are five best practices that should guide the reporting.

The Man From FCPA discusses the reasons behind one of the greatest corporate disasters in the past few years: the acquisition of Autonomy by Hewlett-Packard.

It turns out that 2015 guidance from the OIG provides an excellent roadmap in today’s world for how companies can structure a compliance committee for their board and for the board’s obligations.

A look at how board members might want to enhance their prudent discharge to shareholders in regard to the FCPA, as the SEC and Justice Department could be giving it their full attention.