Better Boardrooms - Repairing Corporate Governance for the 21st Century

Better Boardrooms offers a critical examination of the fatal flaws of the traditional, hierarchical corporate governance model, and suggests improvements for the information age.

List of contents

Preface: What Got Me Started...
1. CIBC: A Fork in the Road
2. A Broken System
3. When Seeing Is Not Believing
4. Confronting Reality
5. What Boards Should Do, but Likely Won’t
6. Barbarians at the Gates
7. Transformation: Easier Said Than Done
8. The Information Age Changes Everything
9. A New Governance Model
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Timeline for GE Post Trian Partners Presentation
Appendix B: Selected History of the Thomson Corporation
Notes
Index

About the author

Patricia Meredith is a Fellow at the David & Sharon Johnston Centre for Governance Innovation at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, University of Waterloo. Her previous book Stumbling Giants, co-authored with James L. Darroch, was the Winner of the 2018 Donner Prize for the Best Public Policy Book by Canadian authors.

Summary

Better Boardrooms offers a critical examination of the fatal flaws of the traditional, hierarchical corporate governance model, and suggests improvements for the information age.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Meredith
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781442649750
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4975-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Organisationstheorie und -verhalten, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, Business / Economics / Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Development