Negotiating: The Top Ten Ways that Culture Can Affect Your Negotiation

by Jeswald W. SalacuseIssue: September / October 2004

When Enron was still - and only - a pipeline company, it lost a major contract in India because local authorities felt……

FROM IMPLICIT TO EXPLICIT: PUTTING CORPORATE VALUES AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY FRONT AND CENTRE

by Rose M. PattenIssue: September / October 2004

Organizational values often seem like abstractions. But if employees are to grasp and live those values every day, leaders……

A board’s role in fostering vision, values and integrity

by Carol Stephenson, O.C.Issue: September / October 2004

Just about every month for the past fifteen years, I have participated in a board meeting, an executive committee discussion……

PREVENTING FUTURE HOLLINGERS

by Richard LeblancIssue: September / October 2004

"More independent directors" and "separate the role of chairman and CEO" have become the rallying cries - and many believe,……

POOR DISCLOSURE AND ELITISM: THE PROBLEMS WITH EXECUTIVE BENEFITS

by Paul HodgsonIssue: September / October 2004

"The rich are different than you and me," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. That truism can be applied to the differences between……

WHAT BOARDS DON’T DO–BUT MUST DO–ABOUT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

by Sid L. Huff, P. Michael Maher et al.Issue: September / October 2004

A discussion of information technology rarely makes it on to a board meeting agenda. While the reasons for this may…

BUSINESS JOURNAL PERSONAL: THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SERVICE, A PERSONAL JOURNEY

by Michael RomanIssue: September / October 2004

We have reason to lament the rise of mechanization and the diminished role of human beings in the delivery of the helping……

CANADIAN INTER-LISTED COMPANIES: NAVIGATING THE MAZE OF GOVERNANCE REQUIREMENTS

by Nancy Hoi Bertrand, Pamela Hughes et al.Issue: September / October 2004

Onerous and expensive are just some of the words that have been used to describe the "culture of compliance" created…

LEVERAGING DIVERSITY TO MAXIMUM ADVANTAGE: THE BUSINESS CASE FOR APPOINTING MORE WOMEN TO BOARDS

by Carol Stephenson, O.C.Issue: September / October 2004

The poet Ezra Pound once said that: "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." Many companies……

BOARD PERFORMANCE: A THREE-LEGGED STOOL

by Paul CantorIssue: September / October 2004

While it is important that a board have some directors who are independent and others who are financially literate,…