Tuesday, December 31, 2013

IESE Insight Two Easy Actions to Improve Your Corporate Governance


The global financial crisis revealed severe shortcomings in corporate governance, fueling debate on the responsibility of governance mechanisms and structures in promoting or preventing future collapses. IESE's Pascual Berrone and Dionosio Garcia-Piriz analyze current systems and make recommendations for new governance policies in their chapter, "Will You Keep an Eye on My Investment? An Empirical Analysis of the Link Between Institutional Investors and Boards of Directors," which was published in Governance in Action Globally (Oxford: RossiSmith, 2013). One of the basic assumptions of corporate governance is that the board's main purpose is to defend the interests of shareholders.

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