Restoring trust in American business (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005)
Subtitle on p. 4 of cover: Report of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Includes bibliographical references and index
The inevitable instability of American corporate governance / Mark J. Roe -- Values and corporate responsibility : a personal perspective / John S. Reed -- Management as a profession / Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Daniel Penrice -- The regulators and the financial scandals / Donald C. Langevoort -- The professionalization of corporate directors / Martin Lipton and Jay W. Lorsch ; Comment : Should directors be professionals? / Margaret M. Blair ; Comment : Professionalization does not mean power or accountability / Damon Silvers ; Comment : The limits of corporate law in promoting good corporate governance / Michael Klausner -- The auditor as gatekeeper : a perilous expectations gap / William R. Kinney, Jr. ; Comment : The audit and the auditor's central role / John H. Biggs -- Professional independence and the corporate lawyer / William T. Allen and Geoffrey Miller ; Comment : The dubious history and psychology of clubs as self-regulatory organizations / Richard W. Painter -- The financial scandals and the demise of the traditional investment banker / Felix G. Rohatyn ; Comment : Toward a higher standard of conduct in investment banking / Gerald Rosenfeld -- Journalists and the corporate scandals : what happened to the watchdog? / Geneva Overholser -- Report of the American Academy's Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee / Corporate Responsibility Steering Committee ; Steering Committee report and recommendations