David Webb, a corporate governance activist in Hong Kong who maintains a database of directors of local companies, welcomed the government's willingness to review the draft rule.
Mr. Rottersman's extensive database of directors' fees shows that the 12 trustees at the Putnam Funds, a unit of Marsh & McLennan, earned the most of any fund company last year -- almost $5 million altogether.
(One database manager said that it had been tough getting design information from funeral directors because many of them are still leery of the Internet).
Using patent and citation data from the NBER patent citation database, board of directors data from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and a difference-in-difference regression technique, we find that SOX increases corporate innovation, as measured by the number of patents and the number of citations per patent.
The hospitals were identified from various sources including the RCOG database of Clinical Directors and the NHS service provider websites for England (nhs.uk) and Wales (wales.nhs.uk).uk
We also acquire director-related information from the IRRC director database for which data collection began in 1996.
"The beauty of the book and database," said Ellen Ryan, director of planning issues at the Municipal Art Society, "is that it creates a whole cadre of civilian enforcement officers".
"All of them are welcome, but none of them is a replacement for a single national database," said Allan Coukell, director of the Pew Prescription Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trust.
"This country is supposed to be the information technology capital of the world, and yet we can't motivate almost half the states to send the records of dangerous people to the federal database," said the director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mark Glaze.
Based on research conducted by Baker's CEPR, which combed through Securities and Exchange Commission filings, HuffPost has built the first-ever interactive database of every director of every company in the Fortune 100.
