What are the best practices of a highly-effective board?
What are the warning signs that a board is becoming dysfunctional?
What can you do to change direction when you believe you need to?
What role can you play in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of your board?

Richard M. Levy, PhD, of Varian Medical Systems shares anecdotes from his past experience of how boards can affect companies for good or ill.

Richard M. Levy, PhD, of Varian Medical Systems discusses how the board can safeguard the “soul” of a company.

Directors weigh in on why you should join NACD.

Interview with: Dave House, Chairman of the Board of Brocade Communications Systems
Hosted by: Mark Lonergan, Founder and Managing Partner of Lonergan Partners

In recent years, virtually all boards acknowledge that an annual board evaluation is required by “best practices.” How that evaluation should be done, by the board members themselves or by outside “experts” still remains an open matter. And whether these evaluations, either internal or external, are in most cases useful in improving board performance or in “weeding out” nonproductive directors, is also a matter open to …

The Delaware Court of Chancery makes most of the laws in our country regarding fiduciary duty and corporate governance. Looking at a few well-known corporate cases, Bill offers a provocative perspective of do’s and don’ts for corporate directors.

What makes for good corporate governance? In this third of a three-part podcast, recorded in December 2011, the board’s efforts at getting the facts are discussed. One of the primary goals of both the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Silicon Valley NACD is to encourage and support effective corporate governance, the foundations for which are the skills, experience and behaviors of the individual board members.

What makes for good corporate governance? In this second of a three-part podcast, recorded in December 2011, the board’s relationship with the CEO is discussed. One of the primary goals of both the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Silicon Valley NACD is to encourage and support effective corporate governance, the foundations for which are the skills, experience and behaviors of the individual board members.

The stock market still has not recovered from the meltdown of 2008, and many companies have had severe reductions in their workforces, but CEO compensation of major U.S. companies rose 36.5 percent last year. Why is there this disconnect between stock market performance and mass layoffs and CEO compensation? What should boards of directors be doing to better align CEO compensation with company performance?

What makes for good corporate governance? In this first of a three-part podcast, recorded in December 2011, the characteristics of effective board members are discussed. One of the primary goals of both the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Silicon Valley NACD is to encourage and support effective corporate governance, the foundations for which are the skills, experience and behaviors of the individual board members.