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. Fri, 15 May 2026 11:32:13 +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 2014 – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Key Issues for Directors in 2014 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/12/16/key-issues-for-directors-in-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=key-issues-for-directors-in-2014 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/12/16/key-issues-for-directors-in-2014/#comments Mon, 16 Dec 2013 14:20:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=56670?d=20141202160644EST Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Monday, December 16, 2013
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 reviewing my 2013 issues memo, I concluded that the 2013 issues continued as the key issues for 2014 with a few changes in detail or emphasis. My key issues for 2014 are:

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