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. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:07:07 +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 2013 – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Key Issues for Directors in 2013 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/12/05/key-issues-for-directors-in-2013/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=key-issues-for-directors-in-2013 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/12/05/key-issues-for-directors-in-2013/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:03:50 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=36744?d=20150113134735EST Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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 memorandum by Mr. Lipton.

For a number of years, as the new year approaches, I have prepared for boards of directors a one-page list of the key issues 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, as well as the demands of activist shareholders seeking to influence boards of directors, have increased. So too have the demands of the public with respect to health, safety, environmental and other socio-political issues. In The Spotlight on Boards, I have published a list of the roles and responsibilities that boards today are expected to fulfill. Looking forward to 2013, it is clear that in addition to satisfying these expectations, the key issues that boards will need to address include:

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