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“I feel that Managing Online Forums is a worthwhile book to buy and absorb. There are TONS of great resources in there, and lots of real world examples for you to follow. This alone makes the book a great resource to [...]
A must-have for first-time and experienced board members alike, who will benefit from William G. Bowen’s decades of experience.Former Mellon Foundation and Princeton University president William G. Bowen has served on the boards of some of the United States’s biggest corporations and nonprofits, including American Express, Merck, the Smithsonian, and TIAA-CREF. In The [...]
Praise for Building Better Boards
“Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation.” —Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation
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In easy-to-understand language, Howe answers the most common questions and concerns of prospective board members, and details their rights, obligations, and liabilities.Drawing on a lifetime of experience on nonprofit boards, Howe details the seven key responsibilities of a nonprofit board member–including how to go about the process of approving the mission, long-range planning, [...]
Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directors
In light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc’s in-depth five-year study of 39 boards of directors of both [...]
“Corporate Governance and Ethics” is an illuminating and practical reading of Aristotle’s Politics for today’s corporate directors. With a deft synthesis of ethics, economics and politics, Alejo Sison elevates the discussion of corporate governance out of the realm of abstract rules and structures into a more effective form of Aristotelian politics. He argues [...]
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“This book excellently captures the leading concepts and provides practices vital to high-performing nonprofit organizations.” –Professor James E. Austin, chairman, The Initiative on Social Enterprise, Harvard Business School
“Managing at the Leading Edge is a significant new guidebook for leaders [...]
Editorial Reviews
Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directors
In light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc’s in-depth five-year study of 39 boards of directors of [...]
Editorial Reviews
Praise for Building Better Boards
“Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation.” —Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation
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Distinguished governance experts offer cures for what ails our boards of directors
In light of corporate malfeasance in recent years, the governance of corporations has been receiving great attention from regulators, researchers, shareholders, and directors themselves. Based on Richard Leblanc’s in-depth five-year [...]
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