Harvard Business Review on Corporate Governance (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

This volume is an essential reference, focusing on both policy and strategic challenges, for senior managers working with boards or dealing with governance issues. The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious business people in organizations around the globe. Articles include: Crisis Prevention: How to Gear Up Your Board by Walter J. Salmon; Empowering the Board by Jay W. Lorsch; A New Tool for Boards: The Strategic Audit by Gordon Donaldson; The Promise of the Governed Corporation by John Pound; Appraising Boardroom Performance by Jay Conger, David Finegold, and Edward E. Lawler, III; Changing Leaders: The Board Role in CEO Succession by Jay W. Lorsch and Rakesh Khurana; Beyond Takeovers: Politics Comes to Corporate Control by John Pound; and Redraw the Line Between the Board and the CEO. Crisis prevention : how to gear up your board / Walter J. Salmon Empowering the board / Jay W. Lorsch A new tool for boards, the strategic audit / Gordon Donaldson The promise of the governed corporation / John Pound Appraising boardroom performance / Jay A. Conger, David Finegold, and Edward E. Lawler III Changing leaders, the board's role in CEO succession : a roundtable with Philip Caldwell, George D. Kennedy, G.G. Michelson, Henry Wendt and Alfred M. Zeien Beyond takeovers / John Pound Redraw the line between the board and the CEO. Corporate governance can raise many difficult leadership, strategy, and policy questions within an organization. This title is a useful reference, focusing on both policy and strategic challenges, for senior managers working with boards or dealing with governance issues.