Corporate Director's Guidebook-Sixth Edition

摘要

Foreword This is the Sixth Edition of the Corporate Director's Guidebook. Since its initial publication in 1978, directors, business executives, advisors, students of corporate governance, and others have all come to rely on the advice and commentary in the Guidebook. Indeed, the Guidebook is the most frequently cited handbook in its field. The primary purpose of the Guidebook is to provide concise guidance to corporate directors in meeting their responsibilities. The Guidebook focuses on the role of the individual director, in the context of providing advice about the duties and operation of the board and its key committees (audit, nominating and governance, and compensation). Although many director decisions and tasks occur against a legal backdrop, we emphasize the law only in limited instances and otherwise attempt to avoid legalisms.