Roundtable Directors' Institute Program - Corporate Governance

Directors' Institute — Roundtable Forum

This intensive, day-and-a-half program focuses on key corporate governance issues in a rigorous and comprehensive program. Upon completing this 8-hour program, your company receives an upward adjustment to its ISS governance rating.

Upcoming programs:

November 13-14, 2008
The Harmonie Club
4 East 60th Street
New York City
This Program is ISS Accredited

Our director and expert faculty will discuss:

The credit crunch and the subprime lending debacle: Where were the directors, audit committee members, internal auditors, and rating agencies?
How are individual and sovereign wealth pools of money changing the capital markets?
How should boards communicate with new shareholder activists, and how can they find alliances with "traditional" long-term pension funds?
What are directors' fiduciary duties to prevent conflicts of interest when dealing with private equity funds?
What does it mean for boards to run the company, either for the shareholders or for the stakeholders, and is there a happy medium?
Which models for tracking corporate citizenship and sustainability are the best, and how do boards decide?
How do directors provide oversight in the area of executive compensation, including structuring "pay for performance"?
What are the implications of having investors vote on the board's compensation report?
To what extent are boards prepared for their new role in overseeing enterprise risk management?
How can directors protect against a precipitous drop in their company's reputation?
What is the proper board oversight regarding companies' charitable and political contributions?

ISS Requirements

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) requires boards to receive a minimum 8 hours of instruction (excluding sessions on financial literacy and D&O insurance) to receive credit. Upon completion of an ISS-accredited program, the company receives an upward adjustment to its ISS Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ) for the number of directors in attendance under a tiered tracking system: one director, a majority of directors, or the full board. The credits also apply to each board on which the directors serve. All sessions listed above are part of the Directors' Institute's accredited program and must be completed in order to receive ISS credit. The D&O Liability session is listed as "optional" since ISS does not award credit for this session. Boards may focus on each session to a greater or lesser extent depending on its informational requirements. Therefore, the duration times listed after each session are suggested duration times only.
* ISS does not give credit for the D&O session

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