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Microsoft Office System Webcast: Increase Collaboration and Efficiency on Your Board of Directors With Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template
White Papers This webcast shows how members of a board of directors or executive board can use Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to track their tasks, access current information about members, share a calendar, host discussions about key issues, and more.
[November 28, 2008, 0:23]
Information Security Governance: Guidance for Board of Directors and Executive Management
White Papers While executive management has the responsibility to consider and respond to these issues, boards of directors will increasingly be expected to make information security an intrinsic part of governance, preferably integrated with the processes...
[April 1, 2009, 7:56]
Healthcare: How to Disappoint Your HIPAA Auditors and Gain the Respect of Your Board of Directors (not Necessarily in That Order)
White Papers With HIPAA audits now randomized, one must be prepared for them every day. And with state regulations requiring compliance\breach reporting, one must become their own auditor. HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
HP announces new director to board
News Rajiv Gupta will join HP's board of directors beginning in January 2009, the company said on Wednesday. We look forward to welcoming his financial, operational and corporate governance expertise to the HP board of directors.
[September 25, 2008, 9:03]
Tate quits Rambus amid stock options probe
News Geoff Tate, the former chief executive of Rambus, quit the company's board of directors on Tuesday as more details emerged of his role in the allocation of stock options. The Audit Committee of Rambus, which licenses technology to computer...
[August 16, 2006, 13:30]
HP still undecided on Dunn's fate
News HP's board of directors met for several hours on Sunday but adjourned without announcing a decision on the fate of chairman Patricia Dunn, who is facing calls to resign in the wake of a probe of board members and journalists that involved personal...
[September 11, 2006, 8:55]
Briton chosen to unite Sony
News Sony's board of directors unanimously approved the selection of a British executive as the company's new chief executive and chairman amid a management shake-up Sunday at the electronics and entertainment giant.
[March 7, 2005, 8:40]
Apple defends Jobs amid strong financial results
News Apple reported financial results far ahead of Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday, and the company's board of directors defended chief executive Steve Jobs' role in Apple's stock options backdating scandal.
[April 26, 2007, 9:49]
ICANN names .org successor
News The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted 11-1 on Monday to endorse the Internet Society (ISOC) as the new overseer of the .org domain. Meanwhile, the organisation has been busy creating a...
[October 15, 2002, 9:29]
AOL co-founder steps down
News AOL co-founder Steve Case stepped down from Time Warner's board of directors as the Internet division tries to make a comeback. On behalf of Time Warner's board of directors and senior management team, I thank Steve Case for his years of...
[November 1, 2005, 16:15]
PeopleSoft: Oracle's bid is 'inadequate'
News PeopleSoft's board of directors has rejected Oracle's lowered bid to take over the company, calling the price "inadequate". The settlement also states that when it comes to deciding whether to award money to shareholders, any questions that arise...
[May 27, 2004, 9:25]
Ellison resigns from Apple board
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has resigned from Apple Computer's board of directors, saying he no longer has the time to devote to the company. When Jobs returned to the company in 1997, Ellison was named to the board of directors.
[September 20, 2002, 14:01]
HP shareholders air frustrations at annual meeting
News HP shareholders approved two proposals related to executive pay and anti-takeover provisions, and vented some of their frustration with the company's board of directors at the company's annual meeting on Wednesday.
[March 15, 2007, 8:56]
HP faces crisis after mole hunt
News In a press release issued on 19 May, the company said that Perkins "resigned from its board of directors on May 18, 2006, with immediate effect. On 23 January, ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.com reported that HP's directors and chief executive...
[September 6, 2006, 16:10]
Onyx withdraws Pivotal offer
News Last month, Pivotal's board of directors rejected the $58m (£33.6m) all-stock buyout proposal from Onyx, a competing maker of customer relationship management (CRM) software for mid-sized companies. However, Pivotal's board of directors cited...
[December 4, 2003, 13:40]
Dunn departs HP over media leak scandal
News HP chairman Patricia Dunn, who launched an investigation into media leaks that resulted in a firestorm of controversy, has agreed to resign her post following a meeting of the company's board of directors.
[September 12, 2006, 16:20]
Reforms pile pressure on IT directors
News The Company Law Reform Bill will enshrine shareholders' right to sue board directors into law for the first time, and will force companies to lay out the duties of its directors. Lawyers say the change will put more responsibility onto IT directors...
[November 9, 2005, 14:00]
Microsoft directors abandon ship at Telewest
News Microsoft has decided to withdraw its three non-executive directors from Telewest's board, leading to heightened speculation that the troubled cable firm could soon undergo major restructuring. Investors took the news that the three Microsoft...
[May 15, 2002, 11:51]
Tech workers urged to improve business skills
News Three out of four IT directors will talk techie to their board. ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, conducted a 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel at the IT Directors' Forum last week. IT directors should be better suited to a strategic role in...
[June 14, 2007, 15:46]
Amcor's Online Boardroom Aids Efficient Distribution of Information
White Papers The company wanted to provide the Board of Directors and Board Committee Members with simple and secure electronic access and management of board agendas, documents, and information sources; traditionally physically distributed in paper form ahead...
[January 18, 2009, 0:22]
