What do Boston thought leaders believe are the keystones to future business growth? Long-term focus on education, shareholder relations, and application of disruptive sciences to their companies. GE Director Dr. Susan Hockfield, Dr. Tom Kennedy (CEO of Raytheon), and Dick … Continue reading
Stephen Honig
2017 has been a banner year for activist shareholders approaching public companies. Major activists continue to target large companies, but the average market cap of targets is approximately $260,000,000. How should boards approach the discharge of their obligations, when an … Continue reading
Each June, the sitting national Legal Director of the Civil Liberties Union comes to Boston to address the Boston legal community, and interested citizens, concerning the work of the ACLU nationally; on June 6 the new Director, Professor David Cole, … Continue reading
The main thing to understand about the future is actually two things: the first is that it is here now, and the second is that the rest of it is going to arrive much faster than you think. Putting flesh … Continue reading
How do boards get a better handle on risk? Triggered in part by the Wells Fargo fiasco, which featured incentivizing sales goals that lead to fraudulent employee behavior, there has been in the governance literature a reexamination of enterprise risk … Continue reading
Does your company, whether public or private or nonprofit, have a crisis management plan? An expert panel convened by the National Association of Corporate Directors in Boston on May 9, 2017 all agree that a plan is necessary; they also … Continue reading
What do the largest providers of financial investment products think are the economic trends which will drive the design of products in the near term? While there is mixed opinion as to the robustness of the United States capital markets, … Continue reading
The term “nonprofit organization” is a misnomer, agreed a panel convened Tuesday by the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Organizations performing public service need profit in order to be sustainable in the long-term delivery of … Continue reading
Last week, the Boston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth held an M&A Outlook Conference at the UMass Club. There was much discussion as to where the general economy fell on the timeline between boom and bust. We are … Continue reading
There is a specific Massachusetts governmental regulation concerning protection of personal information of residents of the Commonwealth. This regulation protects individuals, corporations, partnerships and other entities. It imposes obligations on any company which retains “personal information,” which is defined as … Continue reading