Boards of directors are sitting ducks. Shareholders complain and even attack, management manipulates, and individual board members have little power, able to act only as part of the board as a whole. Governance issues are front and center, yet there is often little understanding, even among board members, of the key role that they play. Written in an accessible and human voice, The Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, NOW! provides information and context essential to anyone seeking to understand how corporations and their stewards-the board of directors-can and should function in the volatile world we inhabit. Deborah Hicks Midanek offers useful insight into what board members of corporations actually do, the current standards for board members and why they exist. She includes a timely discussion of how clarity of purpose can improve board and director effectiveness. Informed by her long experience serving public, private, and family owned corporate boards as well as those of charitable, and government organizations, she provides essential context regarding the evolution of board practice as well as candid discussion of the issues involved in the relentless effort to improve corporate governance processes. Focused mainly on the dominant public corporation, she also explores the special challenges of serving private and family owned as well as nonprofit and public agency boards. Written by a seasoned board member, and liberally laced with stories and cases illustrating the tricky issues directors wrestle with, this book is the essential common-sense companion for anyone working with a board, serving on a board, or wanting to do so. Directors, aspiring directors, investors, and students of corporate behavior will benefit from this highly readable description of the cloistered boardroom. For Roger Trapp's article in Forbes featuring a discussion of this title click here https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2018/10/22/independent-directors-nehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2018/10/22/independent-directors-need-to-stand-up-to-activists/#7060008826b0ed-to-stand-up-to-activists/#7060008826b0 For a Roundtable discussion in Financier Worldwide Magazine featuring Deborah Hicks Midanek please click here https://www.financierworldwide.com/roundtable-risks-facing-directors-officers-aug18#.W1BqQdVKiUk Click here for a review in Financial Analysts Journal https://www.cfapubs.org/doi/abs/10.2469/br.v13.n1.10 Click here for an excerpt on Corporate Board Member: https://boardmember.com/what-is-the-governance-revolution/

Taking on risk is simply a part of business. But new developments in technology and communication make risk management simpler and more effective than ever before. Using examples from companies such as Home Depot, Airbus, Boeing, and Nokia, author John Hampton takes a fresh look at one of the hottest topics in business today: weighing business opportunities against the possibilities of loss. Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management does this by introducing innovative new concepts such as hierarchical risk structures, alignment of risks with the business model, creation of a central risk function, and the role of an ERM knowledge warehouse. Readers will learn how to recognize both internal and external exposures; understand important concepts such as risk mapping and risk identification; recognize the weaknesses of current ERM systems; align risk opportunities with their organization's business model; and stay in line with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Featuring enlightening case studies and practical exercises, this essential book shows readers how they can implement ERM the right way to experience unapparelled successes at their organizations.

Dominik Fiedler untersucht, ob und inwieweit Sportarbeitgeber die Selbstvermarktung ihrer Sportler durch Sportsponsoring arbeitsrechtlich, sowohl unmittelbar als auch mittelbar, etwa durch Vertragsstrafen oder Suspendierung, begrenzen koennen. Dabei wird neben der Frage, ob und welche Sportler Arbeitnehmer sind, auch das Sportsponsoring sowohl zivil-, steuer- als auch sozialversicherungsrechtlich beleuchtet. Der Autor zeigt abschliessend arbeitsrechtliche Grenzen der Selbstvermarktung durch Sportsponsoring auf.

Das Werk veranschaulicht, wann eine Verantwortlichkeit und damit Haftung fur das Verhalten von Geschaftspartnern droht, die Korruptionsverstoesse anstelle eines Unternehmens begehen. Ein massgebliches Instrument, um dies zu verhindern und den daraus resultierenden Risiken und Konsequenzen zu begegnen, stellt die Business Partner Compliance Due Diligence dar. Ihr Zweck besteht darin, die Geschaftspartner einer sorgfaltigen Prufung zu unterziehen, um das jeweilige Korruptionsrisiko ermitteln und entsprechende Massnahmen ableiten zu koennen.