Tag: Board of Directors

For Dale Jones, it was a creeping realization that settled in over time. Two outside board seats, plus serving as a newly minted CEO, was just too much. “I was looking at the calendar and trying to fit it all in and I realized that I didn’t have enough margin to make it all work,” says… Continue reading Directors Confront Overscheduling Long Before Overboarding

Nominating and corporate governance committees are grappling with how to make board evaluations more meaningful, and one niggling question that has emerged is whether boards should ask individual directors to rank the contributions of peers. At Stanford’s recent Directors’ College event, board members and governance experts debated the merits of asking individual directors to judge whether… Continue reading Boards Uneasy About ‘The Survivor Question’

A slew of new appointments to the boards of Arconic, Mattel and Waters include sitting or retired CEOs of publicly traded companies, according to data provided by MyLogIQ. In addition, several directors have given notice that they won’t be continuing with the boards of such companies as Alaska Air Group, Arconic and General Mills. Arconic, which is currently searching for a new CEO after Klaus Kleinfeld was… Continue reading Board Moves: Tech, Big Data and Industry Experience

As more boards provide additional details about the role and function of lead directors in company governance, common attributes and experiences that shape lead directors at the largest companies are emerging. Though the responsibilities of lead directors and the profile of the position vary from company to company, data collected by SEC compliance and public company intelligence provider MyLogIQ shows several striking similarities among lead directors at… Continue reading Lead Director Profile: CEOs Wanted

Company culture at Microsoft in 2013 had grown so “toxic,” said independent chairman John Thompson, the board couldn’t get its top choices of executives from outside the company to sign on as the $526 billion software behemoth’s new CEO. “The culture of this place was: If you’re the smartest person in the room, you can also be the… Continue reading How Microsoft Reformed Its ‘Toxic’ Culture

A slew of new appointments to the boards of Arconic, Mattel and Waters include sitting or retired CEOs of publicly traded companies, according to data provided by MyLogIQ. In addition, several directors have given notice that they won’t be continuing with the boards of such companies as Alaska Air Group, Arconic and General Mills. Arconic, which is currently searching for a new CEO after Klaus Kleinfeld was… Continue reading Board Moves: Director Exits, CEOs Tapped for Board Seats