Past awardees include Charisse Lillie, VP of Community Investment Comcast Corporation, Dr. Ann Weaver Hart, president of Temple University, and Judge Marjorie O. Rendell, Federal Judge within the United States Court of Appeals.
Recent studies have shown that diversifying the skills on your board will not necessarily produce better performance in the long run. “Director Skill Sets,” a paper presented at this year's Academic Conference, examines how director skills cluster on and across various boards.
John Brennan, director at General Electric, and Michael Useem, professor at Wharton, took part in a discussion on effective board leadership at Drexel LeBow. The men covered a range of topics, but often returned to the importance of and ongoing need for increased diversity in American corporate board rooms.
Drexel LeBow's Center for Corporate Governance awarded first Director Education Certificates in Corporate Governance to six participants of its Directors Academy Program.
Interested in joining a board? And if so, are you prepared? Unless you have participated on a corporate or nonprofit board of directors, it is unlikely that you have a complete understanding of a board member’s responsibilities. The Directors Academy at Drexel LeBow’s Center of Corporate Governance can help with that.
In about one in every four deals, the CEO of an acquired firm is awarded a merger bonus according to a recent study. Also target shareholders received inferior premiums when their firms were sold while their CEOs received a merger bonus.
