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NACD’s Directorship 2020 Initiative: Helping Boards Become Strategic Assets

Editor: Welcome back, Steve. Please start our discussion with a description of your role as it relates to NACD’s educational mission. Walker: It’s important to know that NACD’s 15,000 members include directors from nearly every type of business entity ranging from...

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The Deal Compass – Inversions

Several U.S. companies have completed an inversion transaction to potentially reduce their tax rate and ensure that earnings arising from future growth outside the U.S. remain outside the U.S. tax system. In June of 2014, another inversion transaction, QLT Inc.’s acquisition of Auxilium...

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Avoiding Scandals – A Matter Of Corporate Governance

Avoiding Scandals – A Matter Of Corporate Governance The recent scandals involving major corporations might have been prevented if those corporations had had corporate governance measures in place similar to those adopted by many other corporations. These include those mentioned below....

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