Month of November , 2007

Critics say decision limits challenges to insular corporate boards

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected “proxy access” proposals Nov. 28, delighting corporate officials and dismaying shareholder activists and some influential members of Congress.

With increasing SOA initiatives, entities within corporations must monitor and control network risk

Every business-process change brings with it associated risk to the network. This risk factor is exacerbated many times over by the introduction of web 2.0 technologies and services-oriented infrastructures or web services that promise open interfaces and the benefit of reuse of applications within the corporate IT environment. These promised benefits extend to the entire enterprise, including supply chain partners.

At Faneuil Hall, conference participants say corporations should toss priorities, change ground rules

It did not take long for the 200 participants at the Summit on the Future of the Corporation in Boston Nov. 13-14 to collectively answer the conference’s banner question: “Are corporations equipped for the 21st century?”

New American Dream partners with business  and government to achieve sustainability in the supply chain

The Center for the New American Dream was assembled 10 years ago out of a Merck-sponsored retreat in northern Virginia, where some of the hundred-plus guests decided to focus on purchasers’ and consumers’ responses to environmental issues. “When it began,” says Executive Director Lisa Wise, “it was a group of really committed environmentalists that said there was really something missing from the environmental movement…and they decided that was everyday consumerism.”