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August, 2007

 

Shareholders Sue Over Alleged Backdating by Citrix Systems Execs LAW.COM, August 24, 2007 By Billy Shields
	The practice of backdating stock options soared during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when startup companies in Silicon Valley had little cash on hand to offer executives but great financial potential. Companies would offer their executives a compensation package of 80 percent cash and 20 percent stock, which minimized the incentive to build corporate profits, said Thomas Donaldson, director of legal and business studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. (Article also appeared in Yahoo! Finance.)
What Makes a Firm of Endearment? Informit.com, August 17, 2007 By David B. Wolfe, Jagdish N. Sheth, Rajendra S. Sisodia
	Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose is not about corporate social responsibility. It is about sound business management. It is a book that owes much to the ideas of R. Edward Freeman, who in 1984 made a strong case for a stakeholder-oriented business model in his book Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Pittman Publishing).

NBC's To Catch a Predator Takes Another Hit in Esquire RedOrbit (formerly RedNova), August 13, 2007 By Claudia Feldman
	Most TV news magazines have struggled to attract and keep audiences in the past few years. To Catch a Predator, however, does well. It's important to have a fire wall between reporters and law enforcement officials, said Thomas Donaldson, professor of ethics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. "Otherwise you have media companies making money by supposedly bringing people to justice."

Empowered Ethics and Compliance Officers Necessary for Culture of Integrity U.S. Newswire, August 13, 2007
	Leading Corporate Integrity: Defining the Role of the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer -- the analysis by a working group from the Ethics Resource Center Fellows Program and four other nonprofit organizations -- grew out of evidence that many CECOs face major impediments in their efforts to assure that their organizations meet the highest ethical standards.  Along with ERC, the working group included representatives of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG), and the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE). (Article appeared in the Earth Times, PR Newswire, Yahoo! News, KFDA TV (TX), KCBD TV (TX), KSWO TV (OK), Banker and Tradesman, The Examiner.com, EthicsWorld, and CSR Wire.)

Restaurant franchises put God first Reading Eagle & Times (PA) August 4, 2007
	In recent years, efforts to link spirituality and the workplace have intensified, according to Andrew Wicks, a professor at the University of Virginia's business school in Charlottesville, Va. Executives are reacting, in part, to the accounting scandals that rocked the business world in the early 2000s. Business leaders also are looking for more authenticity in their lives and to elevate what they believe is important, beyond just making money, Wicks said.

Companies Consider Ending Quarterly Earnings Guidance New York Law Journal, August 3, 2007 By David A. Katz and Laura A. McIntosh
	Opponents of providing quarterly EPS guidance have argued that the pressure it puts on companies to meet or exceed the forecasts each quarter results in "short-termism" to the detriment of long-term, value-creating business strategies.

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