Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo who has already managed to successfully defy predictions about her appointment to run Yahoo, offers a number of very useful ideas about the role of corporate board directors. Yesterday Eric Savitz posted a terrific piece on Barron’s Tech Trader Daily blog that examined Bartz’s Sunday keynote speech at the Stanford Director’s College. Anyone interested in corporate governance or the roles of board members must read the blog piece.
Recommended Reading – CEO attrition gives directors chance to step up, Financial Times
April 23, 2009
Recommended Reading – Google’s CFO Search: Why’d it take so long?
June 27, 2008
Recommended Reading – Why ‘say on pay’ won’t work, Fortune
November 16, 2009
Recommended Reading – CEO Succession Planning Lags Badly Research Finds, Stanford Graduate School of Business
June 17, 2010
Recommended Reading – CEO and CFO Career Consequences to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks – Academic Paper
September 24, 2008
