I recently delivered a keynote speech in New York city focused on valuable risk management and corporate governance lessons, as well as the future of Financial Reform and its impact on the economy, the capital markets and investors.
That's the surprise corporate governance lesson from this week's Best Buy controversy.
An article on Monday about a decision by Scholastic, the biggest publisher of children's books, to cut back its corporate-sponsored lesson plans for teachers quoted incorrectly from comments by Richard Robinson, the president and chief executive.
Mr. Solovey, 28, of Chevy Chase, Md., is hoping to speak at team-building seminars and corporate functions, giving lessons on how to start a business and on the importance of relationships.
In a follow-up to my Feb. 5 column on lessons corporate leaders could draw from the president's first month in office, here are some lessons to take from his second from both his best moves and his blunders.
Corporate governance provides lessons that may be useful here.
Regardless of whether these youth go on to play sports professionally or live a corporate lifestyle, the lessons learned from having played will aid in their development.
Teach the boneheaded corporate conglomerates a lesson.
Even so, Mickey Mouse might be able to teach corporate America a lesson about saving what is becoming their customers' most valuable possession.
But a shorter companion report prepared by a board review committee holds many lessons for corporate boards on risk oversight practices.
