Original December 2007 – Revised/Corrected January 1, 2008   We include these documents in Accountability Central because of the importance of Dr. King’s comments to his fellow clergy leaders in the south…and to c... [more]

December 27, 2007 Update on Commentary (see below, December 10 post by this writer.   Just before Christmas, CEO Gregory Reyes received his gift for the season — the federal cour postponed his sentencing (“indefin... [more]

On CEO Compensation and Public Response to Those Egregious Pay Packages…   The compensation advisory industry experienced real growth and penetration of corporate suites when a fellow named Graef Crystal was on the cons... [more]

Oh, we love this Apple-Microsoft and PC World marketing competition.   The first computers we bought for our business were expensive IBM “5100” minis — at $8,000 (then) or more per processor with a whopping... [more]

We Are Not Always Happy When CEOs are Sentenced…   We don’t think anyone likes to see someone else go to jail for “white collar” crimes. “There but for grace…go I…” we might be... [more]

An interesting story from Ireland…worthy of reading by USA boards and executives…more on what’s heading this way…and what is now global in scope…   This is about Ethics and Social Investing and m... [more]

A moment here for jingo-ism. Free and fair trade is good for everyone — may the best products make it to the marketplace, at the best prices. Many more Americans are able to enjoy the good life — we are a nation of pas... [more]

Well done! Bill Baue is one of the best, most informed commentators in the business, writing in depth on the important “corporate social responsiblity” and “social investing” and “sustainability”... [more]

I remember reading that back in the last great wave of European immigration to the USA (in the early 1900s), more than 100 languages were spoken in the New York City schools. (There are even more today!) But by third or fourth gra... [more]

The world is continuing to shrink and become a village. “Red Hugo” (as Institutional Investor magazine characterized him four years ago in a cover story) was and is a threat to democracy and capitalism — thus put... [more]