Comply or Explain / Explain or Cancel

By Olivier Dellacherie, Executive Chairman, Talent4Boards Inc.

This is the central question posed to the Board of Directors of Pharmaceutical leader Novartis and its president, Daniel Vasella, who was retiring today after the General Meeting, initially with a check of about 1 million dollars per month for the next 6 years (72MCHF – 80M$), before the cancellation of the decision under pressure from major shareholders and the public.…

Top 10 Topics for Directors in 2013

Posted on the blog of Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, this outlook of the top topics for US directors in 2013, but most of them are also relevant for directors outside the US.…

The pros and cons of an Advisory Board

By Olivier Dellacherie, Executive chairman, Talent4Boards Inc.

Below are the pros that we have gathered in various papers, blogs and websites about the topic.

UK goes ahead in Sweat Equity plans

On 08 October 2012, the UK Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills has announced plans for a new kind of employment contract in the UK called an owner-employee.