Documents tagged with corporate boards

Outsider Directors with a Stake: The Linchpin in Improving Governance

In this 2000 study, Don Hambrick and Eric Jackson discover that most commonly prescribed corporate governance structural prescriptions have no relation to long-term increases in total shareholder r...
  • ericmjackson published this 04 / 19 / 2009
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How Tyco International Remade Its Corporate Governance

A look at how Tyco, the US conglomerate went about fixing its damaged reputation after the resignation and sentencing of L. Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO for abuse of office.
  • Customs Street Advisors published this 03 / 25 / 2009
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Building Trust by Strengthening Ethics Processes and Practices by Eric Pillmore

Consultant Eric Pillmore, who helped engineer Tyco’s turnaround as the company’s senior vice president of corporate governance, shares lessons learned from the Wall Street scanals of 2002. Pillmore...
  • Customs Street Advisors published this 03 / 25 / 2009
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