Corporate Governance : Audio

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said, "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." Shareholder activists have long promoted transparency in corporate reporting. Now, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) acknowledges its rules governing company disclosures aren't good enough. So FASB is proposing new rules. Today, we speak with Corporate Watchdog Radio co-founder Sanford Lewis about his shareholder activism promoting better corporate disclosure on environmental and human health risks.

Jeff Hittner, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Leader for the IBM Global Business Services, gives examples of how CSR is not a company expense or philanthropic effort, but an investment that can yield returns.

Radio host and SLM contributer Betsy Rosenberg caught up with Yalmaz Siddiqui, director of environmental strategy at Office Depot, at Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Green event in April to find out what's next on his to-do list.

The ExxonMobil annual shareholder meeting this year carried high expectations from shareholder activists. Members of the Rockefeller family, descending from the founder of the Standard Oil monopoly that splintered into Exxon and Mobil, attended the meeting to support four different shareholder resolutions on corporate governance and climate change. Of these four, the resolution supported by most Rockefellers asked the company to split the CEO and Board Chair positions. Today's CWR guest, Bob Monks, has filed this resolution at ExxonMobil since the early 2000s.

The co-founders of B Lab, Jay Coen Gilbert, Bart Houlahan, and Andrew Kassoy, unveil their infrastructure play that seeks to give voice to the burgeoning panoply of green business.

Discusses a forthcoming paper on business contributions to institutional capacity building.

Hannah Jones, Nike's vice president for corporate responsibility looks at the future of corporate responsibility as the focus shifts upstream.

Many nonprofits want to expand their size and funding base to bring their mission to more people. In this interview William Foster shares findings from the Bridgespan Group's groundbreaking research on what it takes to be in the big leagues.

November 7, 2007 - Peter Senge and Joe Laur of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) discuss how corporations need to transform, the central theme of the Summit on the Future of the Corporation on November 13 and 14 in Boston that SoL is co-sponsoring along with Corporation 20/20.

September 19, 2007 - As a government contractor Lockheed Martin has traditionally defined corruption as fraud, waste, and abuse. How has this perception broadened with the definiton of waste?