Research Catalog

The board book : making your corporate board a strategic force in your company's success

Title
The board book : making your corporate board a strategic force in your company's success / Susan F. Shultz.
Author
Shultz, Susan.
Publication
New York : Amacom, American Management Assoc., [2001], ©2001.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextRequest in advance HD2745 .S475 2001Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
Amacom.
Description
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "The Board Book is the most practical, reader-friendly guide available to recruiting and managing on-track, top-notch corporate boards - the kind that serve as pivotal success factors for every kind of company, public or private, large or small.".
  • "The author's guidance is backed up by research and hundreds of interviews - information that everyone in business can use: senior executives get the tools to create and sustain effective boards; management gets a clear understanding of good corporate governance; directors get essential information on how to optimize their roles; employees get an accurate reading on the health of their company; and investors get a critical benchmark for evaluating a company."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I. The Case for Strategic Boards. 1. The Board Basics. 2. Strategic Recruiting -- Pt. II. The Conflicts that Compromise a Board. 3. Insiders. 4. Conflicts. 5. Family. 6. Cronyism. 7. The Money. 8. Diversity -- Pt. III. Using your Board Strategically. 9. Information Flow. 10. The Role of the Directors - Value Added. 11. Empowering the Board - Board Leadership -- Pt. IV. Legal Issues and the Future. 12. Director Liability. 13. The Future of the Strategic Board. App. 1. Requirements of Statutory vs. Advisory Boards -- App. 2. Actions Requiring the Board of Directors' Approval -- App. 3. Sample Corporate Governance Guidelines (Nuevo Energy) -- App. 4. Sample Corporate Governance Guidelines (Caterpillar) -- App. 5. Fortune 500 Companies without Women Directors -- App. 6. Sample Form for Director's Evaluation of CEO -- App. 7. Sample Form for Board Evaluation -- App. 8. Sample Form for Board of Directors Self-Assessment -- App. 9. Board Governance Resource List.
ISBN
0814405495
LCCN
00026633
OCLC
  • ocm43561978
  • SCSB-3936196
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries