Producer Jack Kahn talks corporate governance and offers some insight into NBR's special series, Trouble at the Top.

What Happens when Shareholders

are Ignored?

Here’s what I was always told: When you buy stock in a company, you become a part-owner of the firm.  However, since you can’t spend your time running the company, you delegate your authority to a group of corporate directors, whom you and other shareholders elect.  And to paraphrase former General Motors Chairman Charles Wilson, "What's good...+ More

A list of websites you can visit to increase
your corporate governance IQ.

Directorship

National Association of Corporate Directors

ProxyMatters.com

When the perfect storm of losses, writedowns, and plunging stock prices cripple a company; some shareholders get active. They seek a change in top level management, and the result is often a proxy fight. In "Trouble at the Top," anchors Paul Kangas and Susie Gharib and the NBR team examine shareholder activism and the current state of corporate governance in America.