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	<title>Governance Center Blog &#187; independent directors</title>
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		<title>Q&amp;A With Tony Galban – Independent Director Liability</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2010/05/07/qa-with-tony-galban-%e2%80%93-independent-director-liability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 17:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chubb Group of Insurance Companies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Bailey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[director liability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loss Prevention Guidelines for Independent Directors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As companies continue to recover from the financial crisis and brace for a much more aggressive SEC, independent directors are realizing just how vulnerable they are to shareholder class action lawsuits and tougher regulations that focus more on those outside directors.
Of course, liability isn’t the only concern for independent directors as well as inside directors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worth Reading…Separation of CEO and Chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Board Book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of whether or not to separate the roles of CEO and Chair has certainly stirred lots of conversation in board rooms across the United States, especially as shareholders and Congressmen have called for it in proxies and federal legislation.
The argument made by proponents is that having two separate leadership positions, where chair is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Compensation Reform is Really a Matter of Trust</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2009/10/29/executive-compensation-reform-is-really-a-matter-of-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Spector]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SIFMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tarp]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the talk about reining in executive compensation at our country’s public companies isn’t so much about corporate governance reform as it is about the lack in public trust in the markets and the companies themselves.
Having watched the recent Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) speech by The Conference Board CEO Jonathan Spector on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Directors Want Principles, Not More Regulations</title>
		<link>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2009/10/02/directors-want-principles-not-more-regulations/</link>
		<comments>http://tcbblogs.org/governance/2009/10/02/directors-want-principles-not-more-regulations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Larkin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conference board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Delves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive compensation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FASB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kellogg School of Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pastora San Juan Cafferty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the conference board]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As most of corporate America awaits new executive compensation regulations in the aftermath of the financial crisis, a group of about 100 independent directors has started a grassroots movement to head off the regulators.
Calling itself the Independent Directors Executive Compensation Project (IDEC), the directors recently held a meeting at the Kellogg School of Management at [...]]]></description>
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