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The Risks & Rewards of Small-Cap Boardrooms
By Adam J. Epstein | NACD Directorship Magazine | May-June 2018 A former buy-side colleague astutely summed up the difference between the … [Read more...]
The Distinctive Challenges Posed By Small-Cap Shareholder Activists
Directors of small public companies need to be nimble, to do more with decidedly less, and to shepherd companies against long odds for risk-embracing … [Read more...]
Upstart Exchange Blasts Nasdaq Plan to Boost Small-Stock Trading
By Alexander Osipovich | The Wall Street Journal | April 23, 2018 A proposal backed by the Trump administration to make the U.S. stock … [Read more...]
ESG And Diversity Are Small-Cap Considerations, Too
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies and boardroom diversity have historically been concerns for mid- and large-cap institutional … [Read more...]
Why Small-Cap Boards Should Adopt Stock Ownership Guidelines
By Adam J. Epstein | NACD Directorship Magazine | March-April 2018 The vast majority of large, public companies have stock ownership guidelines … [Read more...]
5 Examples of Outside-the-Box Small-Cap Governance
According to Activist Insights, 65 percent of shareholder activist campaigns in 2017 were waged against small-cap companies, and a majority of those … [Read more...]
For Smart Micro-Caps, Financings Don’t End When the Money is in the Bank
According to Nasdaq, 45 percent of its companies have market capitalizations below $300 million. For these micro-cap companies, frequent financing is … [Read more...]
Small-Cap Audit Firm Selection: Think Like an Institutional Investor
There are a handful of firms that perform the vast majority of audit work for the Fortune 1000. For the approximately 80 percent of U.S. public … [Read more...]
Considerations for High-Growth Company Boards in 2018
By Adam J. Epstein | NACD Directorship Magazine | January/February 2018 Governing pre-initial public offering (IPO) and small-cap public … [Read more...]