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Much of Buffett's letter, to be released on his firm's website (berkshirehathaway. com), will expound on corporate reforms needed in the wake of scandals at the likes of Enron, Tyco and WorldCom. He will probably urge that boards hire independent directors who will ask tough questions and curb excessive executive pay. He will call on CEOs to focus more on the long term and provide investors with clear, complete and timely information...
...last time Buffett took on "corporate governance" was in his 1993 report, in which he focused on the need for companies to hire outside directors for their business savvy, not "because they are prominent or add diversity," and asserted that directors must have the spine to root out unethical behavior and take their concerns directly to shareholders--or resign, if entrenched directors balk...
...wanted to be in.” Just as the problem in Fleisher’s school does not stem from the inadequate testing or poor curriculum, neither do the solutions. Fleischer sensibly argues that before anybody starts talking about the specifics of the curriculum, the school needs to hire more and better teachers, and improve the resources available to them. “Getting kids enough books is just step one,” he said. And yet this situation is not unique. A study published in the School Library Journal found that for the 1997-1998 school year...
Bonifaz and about a dozen other students brought suit against the school for harming their education by failing to hire a diverse faculty...
Some people just feel incomplete without an enemy, and as it grows increasingly unacceptable to show intolerance toward any group of humans, it becomes more tempting to condemn inanimate objects. They can't defend themselves. They can't hire lawyers or take out full-page ads. So whether the butt of the latest self-righteous crusade is a cell phone, a double cheeseburger or a bottle of malt liquor, it has no choice but to sit there and take its beating...