The New Boardroom Leaders: How Today's Corporate Boards Are Taking Charge

by Ralph D. Ward

For generations, the cozy, standard model of boardroom leadership was simple: The CEO was also Chairman of the Board, and directors rubberstamped his initiatives. The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act forced radical change on all U.S. public corporations: The board must now hold sessions without management, key committees have tough new independence rules, and all board members now face an unavoidable legal responsibility to provide truly independent oversight...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031335300X
• ISBN13: 9780313353000
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"