Most of the media coverage of HP’s scandal, including my own modest effort, has gone out from the assumption that corporate leaking isn’t nearly as bad as corporate spying. Of course we journalists think that, right? We’ve never met a leak we don’t like. From the perspective of a shareholder in a publicly traded corporation, [...]
While contemplating the strange mess that Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors has gotten itself into, one of my FORTUNE colleagues asked last week, “Why do companies have boards of directors, anyway?” Why indeed? I did a little checking (starting with the strenuous act of going to SSRN and searching on “corporate board history”), and discovered that [...]
