If you only looked at the headlines of today’s feature in the Wall Street Journal: The Case Against Social Responsibility, you might think that the ire of business ethics professionals would be raised to the level of hysterics. But Professor Aneel Karnani raises a critical point that is at the heart of not only corporate …
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How to File a South Dakota DBA Name Online in 2024
Do you want to understand the ins and outs of DBA registration in South Dakota and take charge of the filing process? We’ve got you covered. In South Dakota, a DBA, or Doing Business As, lets individuals operate under a different name for various purposes like marketing, sales, and legal matters. It’s also known as …
It has often been said that there is no place in the boardroom for a director who does not understand the business. Now we need to consider if there is room for one who does not understand internet enabled connectivity. Directors need to understand both the risks and the opportunities presented by the internet in …
The speed of the announced departure of Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd was in and of itself newsworthy. At first blush it would seem that an action by a leader to warrant such fast response from a board must be quite nefarious; if not fraud, then at least a juicy sex scandal. Instead, as was …
This is a guest post from Steven R Roberts Non-Profit Boards, charities, foundations must fight to establish a brand and a following. Therefore they must be led boldly or their missions will have little chance of being fulfilled. After chairing several non-profit boards, and being on a couple of for-profit boards, in the past twenty-five …
Recent calls by the governance advisory community for the individual voting record of each director to be disclosed to shareholders are missing an important aspect of boardroom dynamics – joint and several liability.
Today’s New York Times published another in a string of articles highlighting safety issues on the Deepwater Horizon rig at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis. A confidential survey of workers on the Deepwater Horizon in the weeks before the oil rig exploded showed that many of them were concerned about …
Making the leap - from entreprenuerial to corporate
