TY - BOOK AU - Colley, John L. AU - Doyle, Jacqueline L. AU - Logan, George W. AU - Stettinius, Wallace TI - Corporate governance SN - 9780071403467 U1 - 658.4 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill, Inc. KW - Corporate governance N2 - Based on a popular course on governance at the Darden School, this executive-level guide explores: the expanding role of the corporation, and the directors of that corporation, in modern society; the rules and conventions of corporate governance, along with the pitfalls of failing to understand them; strategies for assembling a mix of directors and attributes designed to most benefit the corporation; techniques for planning, organizing, and conducting a formalized, results-oriented board meeting; if, when, and how a board should intervene in the management decisions of a corporation; myriad ways in which directors can get into - or avoid - legal and PR trouble; significant governance differences between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations." ER -