mission et composition du conseil d’administration

Très intéressant article du The Wall Street Journal qui met en lumière le fait qu’une part non négligeable d’administrateurs américains occupent leur siège depuis plus de 10 ans (24 %). Cette situation ne serait pas gênante, si les investisseurs ne commençaient à se rebeller ! Lire la suite ici.

Large U.S. companies increasingly are governed by board members who have held their seats for a decade or more, even as some big investors question whether these directors serve shareholders’ best interests. At 24% of the biggest U.S. companies, a majority ofthe board has been in place for at least 10 yeaxs, .•a. Wall Street Journal~.lli!lysis found. It is a ~arked changed from 2005 when long-term directors made up a board majority at 11%of large companies. One factor driving the change is low turnover among directors.

(…) Some investors and proxy advisory firms aren’t waiting for companies to make changes. BlackRock Inc., State Street Global Advisors and o~?ig money managers have begun opposing the re-election of some directors with extended tenure.

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Ivan Tchotourian

L’article « Refreshing the Board » de Scott Chase publié sur le journal Private Director Company aborde la délicate thématique du renouvellement des membres d’un CA.

Top businesses typically have high-performance human capital backed up with solid management processes that provide continual feedback to employees and reward talent for creating measurable profitability. Those who cannot perform to benchmarks are “managed out.” High-performance boards take a similar approach to managing themselves, via continual feedback and appropriate rewards for driving shareholder value.

Refreshing the board constitutes one of the most important – and one of the most difficult – tasks facing any group of directors. The need to refresh the board may be precipitated by any number of factors: retirement of a director, a mismatch of talents and expertise vis-à-vis current and anticipated needs and challenges, the unexpected retirement or removal of a director, and challenges to specific directors from activist shareholders and investors.

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Ivan Tchotourian