The! W.ake ·Forest Board of Visitors · met last weekend to discuss student residence, student life and the college experience. The student life survey was also presented for consideration. The Board of Visitors is <:omposed of ·-scholars, writers, professionals, presidents and directors of schools and' .banks all with an interest in Wake .·Forest. ' The members toured the dorms and ·compute'r c...

Professor of Management and Director of Research Income and Enterprise, School of Management. Research areas include job-related well-being, employment relations, and human resource management. Professor Wood was previously at the Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield where he was Deputy Director and Research Chair and a Co-Director of the University’s ESRC (Economic and Social ...

We document, describe and interpret changes in New Zealand corporate board characteristics between 1995 and 2010, a period centred around the 2003 introduction of the NZX Corporate Governance Best Practice Code. Unsurprisingly, the representation of non-executive, independent and female directors on NZ boards rose during the period, as did real chair and director fees and the importance of boar...

Mark Jamison is Director of the Public Utility Research Center (PURC), Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. Before joining PURC in 1996, he was Manager of Regulatory Policy at Sprint. Prior to joining Sprint, he worked nine years for state regulatory commission staffs at the Iowa Utilities Board and the Kansas Corporation Commission. He earned his PhD at the University of Flor...

AuthOr: rONAld A. POPPEr Md, FCCP, FAASM Medical Director of the Southern California Pulmonary and Sleep Disorders Medical Center, Thousand Oaks, Ca. Dr. Popper is Board Certified by the American Boards of Internal, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine. The Sleep Center is fully accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Popper is a member of the speakers Bureau for the National Sleep Fo...

Diverse directors may have diverse preferences over firms’ policies or even objectives. As shown by Arrow (1951), diverse individual preferences may fail to univocally aggregate in collective preferences and may consequently lead to arbitrary and volatile decisions. Using the board of directors as a laboratory, we test whether diversity leads to higher performance volatility. We show that firms...

Christine Deschamps, IFLA's President, has been the Director of the Library of the University Paris V (René Descartes) since 1993. From 1989 until 1993 she was Chef de Bureau in the Ministère de l'Education Nationale, in charge of all academic libraries' automation, networking, interlibrary loan and union catalogues. In 1988 she was Director of the ISSN Centre. She spent 13 years working as a m...

As a system arrangement of the corporate governance, the independent director system has many deficiencies such as the residual claimant right doesn’t correspond with the control right, the information occupations are not symmetric, the time and energy are not deficient, and the encouragement is not sufficient. In the practice that China introduces the independent director system, many obstacle...