In Tense Times, Governance Group Promises Tough Medicine for Boards The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 25, 2013 «The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges announced on Thursday the formation of the National Commission on College and
University Board Governance, which over the course of the next year will develop a set of recommendations for college trustees.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser
University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's
board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate
governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).
«There's been a tremendous emergence of IT as a
governance concern,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and
Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the
University of Toronto.
Stanford
University professor David Larcker, who directs the school's
governance research program, says the case of Apple and Jobs's health has convinced more shareholders and institutions to demand that corporate
boards establish detailed succession plans.
«When you truly start looking at what is an independent
board, what truly is an outside director, the way you define it is really difficult,» says Larry Fauver, a professor at the
University of Tennessee who focuses on
governance.
Governance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, governance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawye
Governance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law,
governance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawye
governance, and ethics at York
University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a
board would be interested in, many in - house lawyers do not.
Ms. Sheehan served two terms as the Chair of the Council of Institutional Investors, is a member of the SEC Investor Advisory Committee, the NASDAQ Listing Council, and serves on the Advisory
Board of the Weinberg Center for Corporate
Governance at the
University of Delaware.
«The
boards you had were managers themselves and their friends,» said Charles Elson, finance professor and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate
Governance at the
University of Delaware.
Richard LeBlanc, corporate
governance professor at York
University joins BNN to provide perspective on the Steve Wynn misconduct claims, what could be next for Wynn Resorts, and the company
board's role in all of this.
The boardroom trends that are «hot» right now, says Richard Leblanc, associate professor in law,
governance and ethics at York
University, are those that are examining «over-boarded [and] over-tenured directors,» as well as tackling
board diversity and experience.
Tamara Vrooman, President & CEO, Vancity; Wab Kinew, MLA - Fort Rouge, MB; Pramila Jayapal, Washington State Legislator and candidate for U.S. Congress; Ross Beaty, Executive Chairman, Alterra Power Corp; Janet Austin, CEO, YWCA Metro Vancouver, and former Chair, Greater Vancouver
Board of Trade; Irene Lanzinger, President, BC Federation of Labour; Michael Tippett, CEO and founder, Wantoo; Tzeporah Berman, Adjunct Professor, York
University Faculty of Environmental Studies; Prem Gill, CEO, Creative BC; Josha McNabb, Regional Director BC, Pembina Institute; Val Napoleon, Professor of Aboriginal Justice and
Governance, UVic; and Heather Tremain, CEO, Options for Homes, among others.
Mr. Cunningham has published extensively on corporate culture and
governance in journals of universities such as Columbia, Cornell, and Vanderbilt, and periodicals such as Directors & Boards, Harvard Corporate Governance Blog, NACD Directorship, and The Wall Stree
governance in journals of
universities such as Columbia, Cornell, and Vanderbilt, and periodicals such as Directors &
Boards, Harvard Corporate
Governance Blog, NACD Directorship, and The Wall Stree
Governance Blog, NACD Directorship, and The Wall Street Journal.
In the late 1960s and1970s Catholic colleges and
universities adopted independent lay
boards of trustees and put
governance issues in the hands of the college itself.
According to the Governor's Office, the seven - person
governance board would be made up of members from the governor's office, SUNY,
University of Rochester and RIT.
Gender equality in sports
governance boards to be explored by
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Inside Higher Ed, July 2, 2012 «This gubernatorial concern about
board appointments is a significant departure from an era when there was more deference to institutions about who they wanted on
boards, said Richard Chait, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education who studies
university governance.»
As the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Excellence in Leadership,
Governance and Philanthropy at Farleigh Dickinson
University, Miller also served as Chairman of the
Board of Trustees for Saint Joseph's Regional High School in Montvale, New Jersey.
R.V.A. Jones Award was presented to Antoinette Bozac, vice president
governance of Meridian and corporate secretary of its subsidiaries, as well as
board trustee of the Association des enseignant (e) s francophones de l'Ontario and governor of Concordia
University.
In addition to chairing MetaJure's
board, he also chairs the Board of Directors of Rimidi Diabetes, the Advisory Board to the Conference Board's Governance Center, and is a senior fellow and co-founder of Emory University's Directors Institute, and a member of the Clark Atlanta University Board of Trus
board, he also chairs the
Board of Directors of Rimidi Diabetes, the Advisory Board to the Conference Board's Governance Center, and is a senior fellow and co-founder of Emory University's Directors Institute, and a member of the Clark Atlanta University Board of Trus
Board of Directors of Rimidi Diabetes, the Advisory
Board to the Conference Board's Governance Center, and is a senior fellow and co-founder of Emory University's Directors Institute, and a member of the Clark Atlanta University Board of Trus
Board to the Conference
Board's Governance Center, and is a senior fellow and co-founder of Emory University's Directors Institute, and a member of the Clark Atlanta University Board of Trus
Board's
Governance Center, and is a senior fellow and co-founder of Emory
University's Directors Institute, and a member of the Clark Atlanta
University Board of Trus
Board of Trustees.
In addition to our extensive involvement with school
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universities and their foundations in all matters relating to their
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