Although boardroom bust-ups have been happening since companies were first formed, the stresses and strains caused by a global demand forever improving share price performance today produce more internal disputes among directors than in the past. The time to come out fighting is when the battle is over, and reputations...
HYDER, THE Welsh water and electricity company, was last night still considering an increased pounds 495m offer from Nomura, the Japanese investment bank, amid signs of a boardroom split at the utility. The Hyder board met yesterday to consider the latest bid in the takeover saga, which...
At Fansteel Inc., a quiet little company that makes products found everywhere from underground mines to the space shuttle, something dramatic - like an intrafamily boardroom battle - seems to be in the air. Last November, longtime director Thomas MellAt Fansteel Inc., a quiet little company...
DONS captain Derek Whyte insists the bitter boardroom battle that has ripped the club apart will not affect their progress on the pitch. A major boardroom confrontation left Stewart Milne in place as chairman while fans' favourite Jim Cummings was forced to quit as a director just...
THE BATTLE FOR THE BOARDROOM of Rexene Corporation began in earnest last week when Wyser-Pratte & Co. and Spear, Leeds & Kellogg sent out preliminary solicitation statements to shareholders calling for a special meeting that could result in t THE BATTLE FOR THE BOARDROOM of Rexene...
Five Masters of the BoardroomRE: Five Masters of the BoardroomInteresting. It is amazing that with this type of money and shareholders' interest at stake to say the least, worker's compensation and basic life long goals and career, we are exuming executive responsability and accountability. What's wrong with parenting, and...
The William Webster fiasco sets a dangerous precedent, according to the publisher of The Boardroom Insider. "It's a sign of how dark our view of corporate boards has become, that despite all the baggage both [departing SEC chairman Harvey L. Pitt and...
Byline: Douglas Appell Pension fund executives who did a star turn in The Walt Disney Co.'s recent boardroom drama say their role for the moment in the battle unfolding at Morgan Stanley is more akin to that of gawkers at a car wreck. ...
LONDON AFP — Arsenal will seek respite from the boardroom infighting besetting the club when they visit north London rivals Tottenham on Saturday. The most conservative boardroom in football was shaken to the core on Wednesday when it was announced that vice-chairman David Dein was to leave the Gunners...
Strategic information architecture SIA is a three-tiered framework whereby a company can integrate the decision process of the boardroom with the daily operational decisions made by managers. At the top tier, the boardroom sets policy affecting the entiStrategic information architecture SIA is a three-tiered framework whereby a company can integrate...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Dan Warmenhoven, CEO of Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), was honored today at the Boardroom Bound Ambassadors Award Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif. Warmenhoven received a CEO Ambassador Award from Boardroom Bound, a nonprofit organization that helps corporations identify and prequalify women and...
Technology is, by common consent, becoming an increasingly important issue for managers of all businesses. So it is curious that the scientist generally struggles to make it through the door of the boardroom. Recent research published by the Johnson Graduate School of Management, at the prestigious Cornell University...
Financial Times The three directors appointed to Marchpole following Friday's resignation of the company's four-strong board said they had already identified a chief executive and a finance director. The boardroom shake-up follows a battle between Yves St Laurent menswear licensee and a group...
WASHINGTON -- Hewlett- Packard's top current and former managers faced incredulous members of a congressional investigative committee Thursday who compared their boardroom leak investigation to everything from the Watergate plumbers to the Keystone Kops. The executives were on hand to explain to the House Energy and Commerce...
Valero Energy's ability to grow from a small company to a global mega-corporation over a six-year period is a tremendous story. The transformation of its staffing organization to go from the basement to the boardroom is a "next practices" talent management study to be emulated by every company's HR and...
It's back to school and kids aren't the only ones heading for the classroom. Marketers are taking more and more products from the boardroom to the homeroom and lunchroom through innovative partnerships.But marketers and companies are learning they must ensure that the schools receive some kind of benefit in return...
THERE'S a whole lot of drama going on in network television, and we're not talking about the soaps. There are three major battles going on behind the small screen--reality TV wars, ratings system wars and the 5-year-long battle for boardroom inclusion and on-air diversity. But in the midst of...
Byline: Mike Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer Is the boardroom battle at Disney indicative of growing shareholder power? "I think it is. I think it's a good thing. I think it's healthy for markets and corporations. I think if management has...
Derek Higgs, the author of the UK's latest code of boardroom conduct, is to be awarded a knighthood in the New Year's honours list for services to corporate governance.One of three representatives from the worlds of business and the City of London to be made a knight,...
