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Corporate Governance Readings

December 2006

  • The Public Company Handbook: A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives, Stewart M. Landfield, Andrew B. Moore, Jens M. Fischer (Bowne 2006)
  • Dialogue on Issues of Corporate Governance, 15th annual conference (2006)

November 2006

  • The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda, Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, David Pitt-Watson (Harvard Business School Press 2006)
  • Review of Carly Fiorina's Memoir, Tough Choices

October 2006

  • More than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting, Thomas A. King (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)
  • The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street, Jonathan A. Knee (Oxford, 2006)
  • "The New Compensation Committee Report," Frederic Cook (September 29, 2006)

September 2006

  • Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate Governance, John C. Coffee, Jr., Oxford University Press 2006
  • “Heavy Vetting,” Laura DeMars, CFO Magazine (July 2006)
  • “Running Effective Executive Sessions,” Richard H. Koppes and Keith D. Rodman, Directors and Boards (Second Quarter 2006)
  • “The Big Three Questions for Boards,” Ken Taylor and Keith Meyer, Directors Monthly (September 2006)

July/August 2006

  • International Corporate Governance: A Case Study Approach, Christine A. Mallin, editor (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2006)
  • “Mandating Corporate Behavior: Can One Set of Rules Fit All?” George S. Dallas and Hal S. Scott, Standard & Poors (Spring 2006)
  • “After the Scandals: Changing Relationships in Corporate Governance” Cary Coglianese and Michael L. Michael (Regulatory Policy Program Report RPP-09 (2006), Cambridge, MA: Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)

June 2006

  • "Mandating Corporate Behavior: Can One Set of Rules Fit All?”  George Dallas and Hal S. Scott, (Standard & Poors, Spring 2006)
  • “Breaking Apart: The Implications of Separating the Positions of CEO and Chairman,” Elizabeth Judd (Corporate Secretary, May 2006)
  • "Corporate Governance Forum," 8-K Magazine (Spring 2006)
  • "What it Means Now to 'Direct,'" Raymond S. Troubh, Directors & Boards (First Quarter 2006)
  • “Restoring Public Confidence: Corporate Governance as Institutionalized Integrity,” interview with Scott Harshbarger, (Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, April 2006)

May 2006

  • "Six Sigma in the Legal Department: Obtaining Measurable Quality Improvements in Discovery Management," (KPMG Advisory)
  • "On Corporate Law Federalism: Threatening the Thaumatrope," Sean J. Griffith and Myron T. Steele, The Business Lawyer (November 2005)
  • "Six Priorities for Boards in 2006" Ira Millstein, Holly Gregory, and Rebecca C. Gespass, Directors Monthly (April 2006)
  • "The Beatles Principles," Andrew Sobel, (Strategy + Business, Spring 2006)

April 2006

  • "The Evolving Relationship Between Compensation Committees and Consultants," Carolyn Kay Brancato and Alan A. Rudnick (Conference Board)
  • "Dialogue on Issues of Corporate Governance" Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) 2005 Annual Conference
  • "What it Takes to be a Lead Director," Julie Connelly, Corporate Board Member (March/April 2006)

March 2006

  • Governing the Modern Corporation: Capital Markets, Corporate Control, and Economic Performance, Roy C. Smith and Ingo Walter (Oxford 2006)
  • "Priorities for the 2006 Proxy Season," Tapestry Networks, Ernst & Young (February 17, 2006)
  • "Congress, the SEC and Private Litigation: Mending Corporate America," Harvey Goldshmid, Institutional Investor Advocate, Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman (fourth quarter 2005)
  • "What it Now Means to ‘Direct,’" Raymond S. Troubh, Directors and Boards (first quarter 2006)

February 2006

  • Book of the Month: Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance, David A. Nadler, Beverly A. Behan, and Mark B. Nadler, editors (Mercer Delta Consulting 2006)
  • "From Day One," William J. White (Prentice Hall 2005)
  • "Behind Every Underachiever, An Overpaid Board?" Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times, (January 22, 2006)

January 2006

  • Book of the month:  Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market, Dan Reingold with Jennifer Reingold (HarperCollins 2005)
  • "Duty Calls -- Latest Twist in Corporate Pay: Tax-Free Income for Executives," Mark Maremont (Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2005)
  • "Mastering Corporate Governance," Financial Times in association with Ernst & Young
  • Shareholder Activism Handbook, Jay W. Eisenhoffer and Michael J. Barry (Aspen 2005)