Notebook
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Video: In the Boardroom with Lucy Marcus: Early-Stage Companies 16 May 2012
In this edition of “In the Boardroom with Lucy Marcus,” Lucy Marcus and Axel Threlfall are joined by the CEO of technology startup PeerIndex, Azeem Azhar, to talk about what the boards of early-stage companies should look like and do.
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Video: In the Boardroom with Lucy Marcus: 'Shareholder spring' 4 May 2012
In this edition of “In the Boardroom with Lucy Marcus”, Axel Threlfall talks to Lucy about the “shareholder spring”.
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Tone-Deaf Boards in Sound-Proof Rooms 18 April 2012
As we enter into proxy season for corporations around the world, one of the key questions for boards and CEOs to answer is why executive pay seems so out of line with what inherently seems justified.
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Greg Mortenson’s lessons for non-profit boards 13 April 2012
Last year 60 Minutes and Jon Krakauer investigated Greg Mortenson, the executive director of the Central Asia Institute (CAI) and author of the best-selling, and, it seems, largely fabricated, Three Cups of Tea.
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How executive pay gets so out of control 3 April 2012
Boards are tone-deaf in a soundproof room Why is it that executive pay continues to seem so out of line with what common sense would tell us is justified? We’ve seen a number of striking examples over the past several months of compensation packages that, when exposed to the light of public scrutiny, evoke a range of negative reactions, making people anywhere from mildly annoyed to genuinely appalled.
Insight, Innovation & Leadership
Thinking and writing about corporate governance and best practices in non-executive director board service, global economic trends, venture capital, private equity, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, investment in life sciences and cleantech, women, and things related to the projects I’m working on. I can also be found on twitter via @lucymarcus
