Recommended Reading: Corporate Governance
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Owning Up: The 14 Questions Every Board Member Needs to Ask (Jossey-Bass: March 27, 2009)

by Ram Charan

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Corporate Governance and Ethics (John Wiley & Sons (2008))

by Zabihollah Resaee

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BOARDROOM Q&A - Ralph Ward Answers Your Toughest Boardroom Questions (Boardroom INSIDER; Kindle edition only (August 7, 2011))

by Ralph Ward

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Dilemmas, Dilemmas: Practical Case Studies for Company Director (CreateSpace (January 20, 2010))

by Julie Garland McLelland

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Outstanding in Their Field: How Women Corporate Directors Succeed (Praeger/ABC-Clio: June 30, 2009)

by Elizabeth Ghaffari



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Corporate Governance
"A board of directors is not just a sign of growth and maturity in your company. It's also an essential key to growth."

from "The Benefits of a Board" by Jana Matthews,
Boulder Quantum Ventures
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Courageous Counsel: Conversations with Women General Counsel in the Fortune 500 (SNR Denton LLP: Leverage Media (September, 2011))

by Kara Sophia Baysinger (partner and head of a global Insurance sector team at SNR Denton LLP) and Michele Coleman Mayes (general counsel at Allstate Insurance Co.)

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Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation (Harvard University Press: November 22, 2004)

by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried

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Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-first Century (Brookings Institution Press: 388 pages: June 1995)

by Margaret M. Blair

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The Battle for The Soul of Capitalism (Yale University Press, 251 pages, 2005)

by John C. Bogel

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The Board Book: An Insider's Guide for Directors and Trustees (256 pages, Norton, April 2008)

by William G. Bowen (former president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Princeton University)

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Inside the Boardroom: Governance by Directors and Trustees (Wiley; June 1, 1994)

by William G. Bowen

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Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World (Harvard Business School Press, 2003)

by Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch

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Boards That Deliver: Advancing Corporate Governance From Compliance to Competitive Advantage (Jossey Bass: 2005)

by Ram Charan

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Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top (Jossey-Bass, 2001)

by Jay Aden Conger, Edward E. Lawler III, and David Finegold

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Corporate Governance and Capital Flows in a Global Economy (Global Outlook Book Series) (Oxford University Press; 528 pages: August 2003)

by Peter K. Cornelius and Bruce Kogut, editors

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In Search of Excess: The Overcompensation of American Executives (Ecco Press: October 1991)

by Graef Crystal

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Excellence in the Boardroom: Best Practices in Corporate Directorship (John Wiley & Sons (January 2, 2002))

by William A. Dimma

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A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation (Wiley: 576 pages: October 2005)

by Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalek, Mona M. Clayton

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Sarbanes-Oxley and the Board of Directors: Techniques and Best Practices in Corporate Governance (Wiley: 313 pages: July 2005)

by Scott Green

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Chairing the Board: A Practical Guide to Activities and Responsibilities (Effective Directors' Guides) (Kogan Page; revised edition; 208 pages: January 2005)

by John Harper

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Board Books: five books by the founder and President of Board Resources Services, LLC

by Tracy Houston, M.A.

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Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off-Balance Sheet Accounting (Wiley: June 13, 2003)

by J. Edward Ketz

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Inside the Boardroom: How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance (Wiley; 288 pages; June 2005)

by Richard Leblanc and James Gillies

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Making Boards Work (McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd; March 1997)

by David S.R Leighton and Donald H. Thain

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Into the BoardRoom: How to Get Your First Seat on A Corporate Board (Beaver's Pond Press, 2002)

by D. K. Light and K.S. Pushor

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Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards (Harvard Business School Press, 1989)

by Jay W. Lorsch with Elizabeth MacIver

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Financial Investigation and Forensic Accounting (CRC Press: 488 pages: June 1999)

by George A Manning, Ph.D

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Blind Spots, Biases, and Other Pathologies in the Boardroom (Business Expert Press: June 24, 2010)

by Kenneth Merchant and Katharina Pick

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The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance (Stanford University Press: September 15, 2004)

by Ira M. Millstein, Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Paul W. MacAvoy, the former Dean and now Williams Brothers Professor of Management Studies at Yale University

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Creative Cash Flow Reporting: Uncovering Sustainable Financial Performance (John Wiley & Sons: January 20, 2005)

by Charles W. Mulford and Eugene E. Comiskey

Charles W. Mulford, Ph.D, CPA (Atlanta, GA), is the co-author of three books, including The Financial Numbers Game: Identifying Creative Accounting Practices. Eugene E. Comiskey, PhD, CPA, CMA (Atlanta, GA), is the co-author of the bestselling The Financial Numbers Game: Identifying Creative Accounting Practices.
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Corporate Governance (Oxford: Blackwell, 3rd Ed., 2003)

by Robert A. G. Monks and Nell Minow

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Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Implementation Toolkit: Practice Aids for Managers and Auditors (Wiley: 357 pages: April 2005)

by Michael J. Ramos

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The Governance Game: Restoring Boardroom Excellence & Credibility in Corporate America (Aspatore Books: April 15, 2003)

by Marilyn Seymann and Michael Rosenbaum M One, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ)

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The Board Book: Making Your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in Your Company's Success (AMACOM: September 2000)

by Susan F. Shultz, SSA Executive Search International (Phoenix, AZ)

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The New Boardroom Leaders (Greenwood/Praeger, October 2008)

by Ralph D. Ward

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Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom Insider Guidebook (John Wiley & Sons, 2000)

by Ralph D. Ward

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