Role and responsibilities of the board of directors
How the board can affect its operation
Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Trends in corporate governance
Executive leadership importance
100

The obligation the board of directors has 

What is "to approve all decisions that might affect the long-term performance of the corporation"?

100

Another name for inside directors 

What is management directors?

100

Have more companies become public or private after the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

What is private?

100

What is the mandatory retirement age?

What is 72?

100

The third responsibility that the textbook and Nick gave for top managers

What is organizational welfare?

200

Spencer Stuart's third board of directors responsibility

What is risk vs. initiative and the overall risk profile of the organization
200

The agency theory states problems occur within businesses because _____ will not take responsibility for their own actions unless they have stock within the business

What is top managers?

200

What was the #1 company from the list of the World's Best Companies in 2024?

What is Apple?

200

Why are there smaller boards?

What are greater efficiency and specialized expertise?

200

What term matches the following statement, "description of what the company is capable of becoming"


What is strategic vision?

300

The role of the board of directors in strategic management is to carry out three basic tasks

What is to monitor, evaluate and influence, and to initiate and determine?

300

The kind of relationship corporations have between board size and firm profitability 

What is negative?

300

What was one of the goals of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

What is promote and formalize greater board independence and oversight or protect shareholders from the excesses and failed oversight that characterized criminal activities?

300

What type of evaluation assessment is focused on both group and individual director performance?

What is board evaluation?

300

The 3 key functions of executive leadership

What is direction, culture setting, and decision-making?

400

The smaller the corporation.....

What is the less active its board of directors is in strategic management?

400

Should executives be mostly insiders or outsiders to try and avoid the bias of the agency theory?

What is outsiders?

400

What does SEC stand for?

What is securities and exchange commission?

400

Stock ownership requirements: Shareholders demand directors and top executives hold _____ _____

What is significant equity?

400

What is the first responsibility of the strategic planning staff?

What is identify and analyze companywide strategic issues?

500

The country that faces more than 100 provincial and federal laws governing the director liability 

What is Canada?

500

How many company's share a leading director in an interlocking directorate?

What is 2+ companies?

500

Who is the CEO Alyssa referred to when talking about CEO's holding stock with extra votes?

Who is Mark Zuckerberg?

500

Anti-takeover measures: Elimination of ______ defenses like staggered boards and poison pills

what is outdated?

500

Which is NOT a key element of strategic vision?

-Communicates a clear direction for growth and evolution

-Tries to stop stakeholders from aligning themselves with the company's goals

-Describes what the organization aspires to become

What is tries to stop stakeholders from aligning themselves with the company's goals?