Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. / Allscripts Healthcare Solutions / General Electric / Wall Street Journal / Barclays PLC / Plains Exploration & Production Company / Ernst & Young / Staples / HealthCor Partners Management LP / Hess Corp. / Citigroup / Office Depot / /
Country
United States / / /
Event
M&A / /
Facility
University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College / /
IndustryTerm
oil and gas industry / oil and gas industry expertise / retired oil industry executives / technology initiatives / office supplier / energy / /
Organization
Delaware Court of Chancery / John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance / University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics / U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission / NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Director Professionalism / Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals / /
Person
Simon Lorne / Anne Simpson / Ann C. Mulé / John Noble / Charles M. Elson / /
Position
financial advisor / counsel / CEO / director / associate director / director independence / director industry expertise / investment advisor / director attribute / Director Evaluation plaintiffs / industry-expert independent director / CIO / Vice Chancellor / Director Evaluation director of corporate governance / Director Defendants / governance advisors / director candidates / independent director / general counsel / head / director expertise / Director Evaluation / director independence / director equity Recent shareholder ownership / director qualifications / /
ProvinceOrState
Delaware / /
PublishedMedium
the Wall Street Journal / the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis / /
Director Evaluation A new kind of captured board What we should be worrying about: the ‘management knowledge-captured board.’ By Ann C. Mulé and Charles M. Elson