Listen to Your Whistleblowers

Cover Story

Get ready for an increase in insider trading, embezzlement, and other chicanery brought on by the troubled economy. Your best defense is an effective whistleblower program where these tipsters know they'll be safe. They haven't always been.

Plus: Whistleblowers Get Little Protection— Despite Sarbanes-Oxley
Echoes of Honest Abe

Third Quarter 2009

Features

Memo to Comp Committees: Don't Let Investors or CEOs Push You Around
Suddenly everyone's an expert on executive pay, including the White House. Many want it cut, while your CEO may threaten to walk if it is. The board's responsibility is to get the number right and stick to it, no matter who's twisting your arm.

Plus: Pay Cuts in the Boardroom?

Take This TARP and Shove It
Everybody's doing it now, including Citigroup and JPMorgan. But meet the first directors to send the money their bank got from the Troubled Asset Relief Program back to Washington.

How to Find Out What Management Isn't Telling You
Top management doesn't often downright lie to the company's board. But it gets things wrong, has blind spots, and may wear blinkers. A veteran director tells how he makes sure he isn't blindsided.

Single Mom is Director
Hey guys! If you think holding down a couple of directorships and a demanding day job is a challenge, imagine doing all that as a single mother who's raising three kids. Better yet, ask Cindie Jamison how she does it.

Immigration as Economic Stimulus
Reform of the illegal-immigration mess may finally be getting support from longtime foes like organized labor. But opponents to amnesty aren’t backing down. What happens next depends largely on President Obama— and he’s busy with other stuff.

Departments

Letter from the Editor
This Immigrant Lucked Out

On Board
Unions Into the Boardroom: Don't Expect Socialists— or Sycophants

Look Before You Tweet

Securities Analysts? Fuggedaboutem

What the Amended Rule 452 Means to You

A View from the Bar: Directors Can Be Liable for Layoffs, Plant Closings

If All the World Were on America's Stage

Before We Adjourn
Sentenced to Write a Book