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Corporate Governance

Main topics of study:Study Corporate Governance with ICM

What is a Corporation:

  • Definitions
  • Evolution of the Corporate Structure
  • The Purpose of a Corporation
  • The Corporation as a Person
  • The Corporation as a Complex Adaptive System
  • The Corporation as a Moral Person
  • The Corporation in Society
  • Future Directions
  • Corporate Power and Corporate Performance
  • Corporate Crime
  • Corporations and Government
  • Measuring Performance
  • Balancing Interests
  • Good and Bad Corporations
  • Cadbury Paradigm
  • Measuring Value Enhancement
  • Non-economic Considerations in Corporate Management

Shareholders and Ownership:

  • Definitions
  • Early Concepts of Ownership
  • Early Concepts of the Corporation
  • Individual and Corporate Rights
  • Reinvention of the Corporation
  • Essential Elements of the Corporate Structure
  • Separation of Ownership and Control
  • Fractionated Ownership
  • Framework for Participation
  • Ownership and Responsibility
  • Prisoners’ Dilemma
  • Institutional Investors
  • Biggest Pool of Money in the World
  • Public Pension Funds
  • Private Pension Funds
  • Shareholder Proxy Proposals
  • Board
  • Activism
  • New Models and New Paradigms
  • Ideal Owner

Directors and Monitoring:

  • Typical Board
  • Board Duties
  • Board-Management Relationship
  • Information Flow
  • CEO-Chairman
  • Ex-CEO as Director
  • Director Nomination
  • Director’s Role in Crisis
  • Independent Outside Directors
  • Director Election
  • Takeovers and the Board
  • Fiduciary Standard
  • The Future

Management Performance:

  • Requirements of the CEO
  • Challenges
  • Executive Compensation
  • Stock Options
  • Restricted Stock
  • Shareholder Concerns
  • Future Directions for Executive Compensation
  • CEO Employment Contracts
  • Employees’ Compensation and Ownership
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plans

International Governance:

  • Global Corporate Governance
  • Limits to Convergence
  • Global Corporate Governance Forum
  • Developed World
  • European Union
  • Foreign Policy

Reading List

Main Text:

Robert AG Monks and Nell Minow, Corporate Governance (Third edition, Blackwell Publishing, 2004)

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