About the governance of institutions
The recent headlines are not just about “corporate governance.” Not-for-profits, healthcare organizations, religious governance structures, and other institutions that make up what Professor Peter Drucker named “The Social Sector” are being influenced and directly affected by the same waves of reform as those sweeping the Private, for-profit (corporate) sector. The social sector has had its own share of governance scandals and missteps – for example, a decade ago, the national chief of the United Way was prosecuted for his role in the organization’s well-publicized financial irregularities.
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News & Updates
By: CalPERS
SACRAMENTO, CA -The California Public Employees' Retirement System leaned heavily on its diversification strategy to forestall a large investment loss this past fiscal year, the System reported today.
By: USA TODAY
Joanne Bratton
As grocery prices continue to rise and food donations decline, a growing number of food banks across the USA are turning to local farms for produce that otherwise might go to waste.
By: PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) has announced $140,000 in challenge grants to drive innovation in sustainable cocoa farming. The grants will focus on labor-saving technologies and...
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Research & Insights
By: Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School
Companies that cut health care costs without improving the overall value of care eventually pay a price in terms of employee absenteeism and chronic ailments. According to Harvard University professor and strategy expert Michael...
By: States News Service
States News Service
The following information was released by the University of California - Berkeley:
The seemingly charmed life of a superstar CEO can be a double-edged sword - added power and prestige for the chief executive officer, but often...
By: USA TODAY
Kevin McCoy
One operates an estimated $63 billion portfolio of 118 shopping centers and malls in the U.S., United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.
Another manufactures and markets toys through a company with an estimated $35 million in...
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Commentary & Opinion
By: Canadian Business
A.W.
Executives grapple with all kinds of unknown variables inside their businesses: component costs, sales demands, future revenues. Forecasting them is as much art as it is science, and prone to errors. HP Labs in Palo Alto,...
By: Los Angeles Times
Peter G. Gosselin, Times Staff Writer
The U.S. economy appears to be caught in a cycle of recurrent panic attacks. So many things have gone wrong, and so much anxiety has accumulated in the financial system, that nothing seems safe.
As a result, no sooner has one...
By: Investor's Business Daily
ADELIA CELLINI LINECKER
4 Vielka McFarlane is a Los Angeles-area parent and educator who refused to accept the status quo. Faced with a failing school system and rising neighborhood crime, she decided to start a different kind of school system.
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