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		<title>Governance Center Meeting Season Starts in October</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/23/governance-center-meeting-season-starts-in-october/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Car Berquist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holly Gregory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fiscal year 2011 corporate governance conference season kicks off this October with our annual meeting in New York City and continues with Roundtable Forums and Crash Courses in several cities. Meanwhile, we will make an appearance at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) National Audit Committee Forum next week in Washington, D.C.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enactment of Dodd-Frank Law Spurs Memo Wave</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/23/enactment-of-dodd-frank-law-spurs-memo-wave/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/23/enactment-of-dodd-frank-law-spurs-memo-wave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[proxy access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[say on pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, you’ve probably been deluged with alerts, client memos, invitations to webinars and live conferences in the past week all centered on the recently enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
If you are a director, C-level executive, corporate secretary or anyone for that matter involved in the corporate governance area, you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth Reading … Financial Reform Thought Leadership</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/16/worth-reading-%e2%80%a6-financial-reform-thought-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/16/worth-reading-%e2%80%a6-financial-reform-thought-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disclosure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clawback]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics Metrics LLC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Congress has passed the financial regulatory reform bill with the Senate’s 60-39 vote on Thursday  [See July 15 Reuters article here.], the hard work begins not only for regulators but for public companies who will try to make sense of it all.
Many boards and senior management will be looking to their counsel and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schapiro: SEC Ready to Tackle Proxy Voting Structure</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/10/schapiro-sec-ready-to-tackle-proxy-voting-structure/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/07/10/schapiro-sec-ready-to-tackle-proxy-voting-structure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[concept release]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[society of corporate secretaries and governance professionals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you take anything away from SEC Chair Mary Schapiro’s Friday speech to the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals annual meeting in Chicago, it should be this: the regulator plans to act quickly to institute the regulations behind financial reform.
In the meantime, Schapiro told a packed hotel room the SEC on Wednesday plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There a Crisis Management Plan Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/25/is-there-a-crisis-management-plan-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Crisis Management Plan: Are You Prepared?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BP oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis management plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPMG ACI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Edward Markey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TK Kerstetter]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=607</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of the fallout from the BP oil spill, I scoured the web sites of some of the Fortune 100 and Googled the words “corporate crisis management plans.” I was unable to find any such plans for those corporations. I believe the reason is either the companies keep such plans private or that many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Will Have Hands Full Once Financial Reform Passes</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/22/sec-will-have-hands-full-once-financial-reform-passes/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/22/sec-will-have-hands-full-once-financial-reform-passes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEO pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John W. White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[listing standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[majority voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Barney Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[say on pay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sen. chris dodd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy A. Paredes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Delaware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the House-Senate Conference Committee gets closer to an agreement for financial regulatory reform, directors and chief executives are wondering how the voluminous legislation will affect the governance of their companies.
How the proposed law plays out in boardrooms depends on what the SEC does. According to Commissioner Troy A. Paredes, a guest speaker at an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reports: Sustainability Reporting Standards Lacking</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/16/reports-sustainability-reporting-standards-lacking/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/16/reports-sustainability-reporting-standards-lacking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AltaTerra Research Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Cropper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrots and Sticks -- Promoting Transparency and Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Malan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Director Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KPMG Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matteo tonello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability in the Boardroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Conference Board Corporate Citizenship & Sustainbility Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Conference Board Governance Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Global Reporting Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Stellenbosch Business School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Boards of directors need to oversee corporate sustainability reporting more effectively as their companies should raise the bar on minimum reporting standards through voluntary disclosure, according to two recent reports.
In its Director Notes series report released last week, Sustainability in the Boardroom, The Conference Board Governance and Corporate Citizenship &#38; Sustainability Centers surmised from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Compensation Conference Share: Board Placemats</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/11/executive-compensation-conference-share-board-placemats/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/06/11/executive-compensation-conference-share-board-placemats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compensation placemat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive compensation principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet M. Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proxy disclosures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[say on pay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Semler Bross Consulting Group]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another week, another conference as the spring corporate governance season kicks into full gear. This week I attended the 2010 Executive Compensation Conference: Everything Directors and Senior Executives Need to Know About Effective Risk and Reward Sharing, which focused on risk assessments, SEC proxy disclosures, Say on Pay and compensation principles.
While the nearly 100 attendees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A With Ken Daly &#8212; Risk and Red Flags</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/05/27/qa-with-ken-daly-risk-and-red-flags/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/05/27/qa-with-ken-daly-risk-and-red-flags/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 21:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Report of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission -- Risk Governance: Balancing Risk and Reward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk governance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tcbblogs.org/governance/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Public company boards have taken a bigger interest in risk governance as they try and get their businesses back to somewhat normal levels following the financial crissis. This focus on risk led the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) last fall to issue a Report of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission – Risk Governance: Balancing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Regulatory Reform Signaling Move Toward Strategic Governance?</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/05/26/financial-regulatory-reform-signaling-move-toward-strategic-governance/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/05/26/financial-regulatory-reform-signaling-move-toward-strategic-governance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Congressional leaders prepare to start a three-week process to reconcile the two versions of the financial regulatory reform bills, it dawned on me the gravity of what is about to take place just prior to Independence Day.
The governance of U.S. public companies as we know it will start a drastic transition from compliance governance [...]]]></description>
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