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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.

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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?

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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.