The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Key Issues for Directors in 2011 – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Key Issues for Directors in 2011 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/12/16/key-issues-for-directors-in-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=key-issues-for-directors-in-2011 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/12/16/key-issues-for-directors-in-2011/#comments Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:42:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=14359?d=20150120095607EST Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Thursday, December 16, 2010
Editor's Note:

Martin Lipton is a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and matters affecting corporate policy and strategy. This post is based on a Wachtell Lipton firm memorandum by Mr. Lipton.

For a number of years, as the new year approached, I have prepared a one-page list of the key issues for boards of directors that are newly emerging or will be especially important in the coming year.  Each year, the legal rules and aspirational best practices for corporate governance matters, as well as the demands of activist shareholders seeking to influence boards of directors, have increased.  Earlier this year, in The Spotlight on Boards, I published a list of the roles and responsibilities that boards today are expected to fulfill.  Looking forward to 2011, it is clear that in addition to satisfying these expectations, the key issues that boards will need to address include:

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