Leading the Boardroom
Resources for Board Chairs, Lead Directors
and Non-Executive Chairs
We are just getting started in building resources to keep you informed. Stay tuned!
Board Leadership
May 2011, Deloitte – Board Leadership: A Global Perspective
Board Succession
2011: Directors and Boards – Selecting Your Next Nonexecutive Board Leader
Chairmen and CEOs Roles
September 1, 2011, Harvard Business Review – Separation of Chair and CEO Roles
February 2011, Elise Walton, PhD. - The Effective Chair-CEO Relationship: Insight from the Boardroom
Chairman’s Forum: Yale School of Management, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance
Institutional Investors
August 26, 2011, Stephen Davis, Executive Director of the Millstein Center and Jon Lukomnik is managing partner of Sinclair Capital L.L.C. – The Mind of an Institutional Investor: Debunking Myths About ISS
Lead Director
April 2010: PwC – Lead Directors: A study of their growing influence and importance
March 24, 2011: Lead Directors Network – The Relationship Between the Lead Director and the CEO
Press Coverage: Chairmen in the News
August 25, 2011, Wall Street Journal, Mum on Succession, Board Got Heat
Stephen Davis, executive director of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale School of Management, criticized Apple’s board for being “opaque” about Mr. Jobs’s health and said the board should disclose a succession plan for Mr. Jobs as chairman, the post to which he was named Wednesday.
Apple hasn’t had a chairman for years. Mr. Davis said Apple should clarify Mr. Jobs’s role as chairman and his health situation. “Being a chairman is not just a name,” Mr. Davis said. “There are real responsibilities,” particularly at one of the most valuable companies in the U.S., based on market capitalization.
Reputation Risk
January 2012, Weber Shandwick: Rethinking Reputation Risk
SEC on Disclosure: Risk & CEO/Chairman Leadership Structure
Late last year the SEC began requiring this new disclosure, heavily abbreviated here:
Briefly describe the leadership structure of the registrant’s board, such as whether the same person serves as both principal executive officer and chairman of the board, or whether two individuals serve in those positions… If one person serves as both principal executive officer and chairman of the board … disclose whether the registrant has a lead independent director and [the] specific role [of] the lead independent director… indicate why the registrant has determined that its leadership structure is appropriate…
Social Media
August 12, 2011 – Lucy Marcus -Boardroom Lessons from a Social Media Misstep
Reports on the Board
2011 Spencer Stuart Board Index
