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Business Definition for: Boardroom

  • a room in which board meetings are held. A boardroom may be a room used only for board meetings or can be a multiuse room that becomes a boardroom for the duration of a board meeting.

Additional Resources

Five Masters of the Boardroom
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...
Tags: Financial accounting, boardroom
Discussion threads 2008-10-21
Slamming boardroom door? (Tips, Trends & Observations).
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...
Tags: board, boardroom, Mr., SEC
Research articles 2002-11-11
Gunners seek respite from football boardroom squabbles
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...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Arsenal, FINANCE, football, Games, London
Research articles 2007-04-19
SIA links the boardroom with day-to-day ops. (strategic information architecture)(Automation Update)
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...
Tags: boardroom, information architecture, Semiconductor Industry Association
Research articles 1992-07-06
Pretext in context; Corporate governance.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
What has gone wrong in Hewlett-Packard's boardroom? What has gone wrong in Hewlett-Packard's boardroom?
Tags: corporate governance, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Research articles 2006-09-16
Network Appliance CEO Receives Ambassador Award From Boardroom Bound; Award Recognizes Leadership and Diversity on Corporate Boards
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...
Tags: board, leadership, Network Appliance Inc.
Research articles 2006-09-14
Why Britain should experiment with boardroom boffins
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...
Tags: Cornell University, MBA, scientist, TECHNOLOGY
Research articles 1996-03-21
Congress challenges HP heads' practices
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...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., pretexting, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-09-29
From the Basement to the Boardroom at Valero Energy: The Strategic Imperative in Talent Planning
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...
Tags: Talent, Staffing, Basement, Boardroom, Valero Energy, Human Capital, Workforce Management, Human Resources
White papers
In-School Marketing: Boardroom to Homeroom
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...
Tags: advertisement, Wall Street Journal
Research articles 1998-08-05
Author of new boardroom code knighted.
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,...
Tags: Bank of England, boardroom, FINANCE, knight
Research articles 2003-12-31
AMP's boardroom shake-up a grand but ineffectual gesture.
Feb 25, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) The departure of five directors from AMP's struggling board will bring relief to them, not investors. While the executives, including chairman Stan Wallis, will no longer have to involve themselves with the many problems facing...
Tags: board, boardroom, director, FINANCE, Investment, National Australia Bank
Research articles 2003-02-25
Director seeks to have NAB non-execs dismissed.
Rebel National Australia Bank director Catherine Walter Monday raised the stakes in her bitter fight with her boardroom colleagues by filing motions to dismiss all the troubled company's non-executive directors.The move follows the board's surprise decision last week to call on shareholders to evict Walter, one...
Tags: director, FINANCE, National Australia Bank
Research articles 2004-03-30
Milne's sinking feeling as boat race sponsor eyes his job; Boardroom
The chairman of Aberdeen, Stewart Milne, will tomorrow night survive a meeting at which he expected to face a vote of no confidence from hostile fellow directors. A major rift emerged in the Pittodrie boardroom after the emergence of a faction which has lost confidence in Milne...
Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., board, chairman, director, job
Research articles 2001-03-25
BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Big investors attempt to derail the boardroom
IS THE balance of power starting to shift? For years, corporate boardrooms have appeared to have the upper hand in the pay stakes. Within reason, they have been able to push through inflation-busting pay rises and fancy share options schemes with only occasional bleatings from shareholders. Now though, shareholder activism...
Tags: analysis, boardroom, FINANCE, investor, Prudential Insurance Company of America, salary, shareholder
Research articles 2002-05-10
Reds must keep focus in face of boardroom turmoil: Benitez
LIVERPOOL, England AFP — Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has insisted he will not be distracted by the boardroom turmoil engulfing the club as he prepares for a run of four matches that could make or break his season. Sunday's Merseyside derby with Everton is to be followed by the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, boardroom, Games, Gillett
Research articles 2008-03-28
From boardroom to showroom
OF LATE, Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd Tan Chong has been back in the limelight. Fortunately, the attention received by the car distributor has been rather positive this time around, unlike its previous accounts of boardroom battles. In November, the company reported...
Tags: analyst, FINANCE, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Renault, SALES
Research articles 2004-12-16
Boardroom Battles
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...
Tags: Boardroom, IRontheNet.com, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Inside the Boardroom
York University professor Richard Leblanc gained unprecedented access to the boardrooms of North America's most powerful companies to complete his five-year study of how boards really work. The results of the study are reviewed in his new book, Inside the Boardroom--How boards really work and the coming revolution in corporate...
Tags: board, boardroom, director, York University
Research articles 2005-08-01
Hyder in boardroom split over break-up option
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...
Tags: boardroom, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Nomura, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2000-08-01