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July 23, 2018
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Papa John’s Chairman Resigns After His Racial Slur: Did crisis help the board?

By Eve Tahmincioglu

The fallout continues following the resignation of Papa John’s embattled chairman John Schnatter, who confirmed publicly that he used a racial slur during a May conference call.

The call was with Papa John’s marketing agency, Laundry Service, and, according to a  Forbes article, “it was designed as a role-playing exercise for Schnatter in an effort to prevent future public-relations snafus.

The article said he was asked by the agency’s staffer “how he would distance himself from racist groups online. ‘Colonel Sanders called blacks n-----s,’ Schnatter said, before complaining that Sanders never faced public backlash” after his comments criticizing protests from NFL players during the National Anthem.

Given the ongoing nature of Schnatter’s behavior, was it something he exhibited in the boardroom? And if so, what is the board’s role in the scandal?

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Director Data


Global Trends in Corporate Governance

Farient Advisors and the Global Governance and Executive Compensation Group recently released their third annual report looking at governance trends around the world. Among their discoveries is the growing push to split the roles of CEO and chairman in public companies.

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Featured Article


Are Boards Effective in Giving Feedback to Each Other?

By Roger M. Kenny
While most company boards of directors are doing annual board assessments, they do not appear to be effective at the individual director level. Many directors still seem to be hesitant to undertake individual, peer-to-peer reviews, thus limiting important personal feedback from their fellow directors. 

Why is this so?  Have so many directors decided that merely checking boxes satisfies the annual assessment requirement?  Or, are directors squeamish about participating with their peers in the process of giving and receiving personal feedback?

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Board Appointments

First Female Harvard President Joins Goldman Sachs Board

By Barbara Wenger

Drew Faust, the recently retired Harvard University president, and the first woman to hold the role, has been appointed to the board of Goldman Sachs.

Ironically, in one of her first speeches after taking the top role at Harvard in 2007, “she implored Harvard’s graduating class to resist the easy lure of lucrative Wall Street jobs and often spoke of the need to study the humanities,” according to the  Boston Globe.

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