Last week, I was reading a terrific article to be published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review by Professor Elizabeth Pollman entitled, … [Read more...]
The Case for Deregulating Small-Caps
There are roughly now half the number of companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange as there were in the mid-1990s, … [Read more...]
Small-Cap Boards Can’t Afford to Ignore CEO Communication Skills
Seasoned small-cap fund managers are forensic observers: they parse everything they read and hear. Many have learned that small-caps are risky enough … [Read more...]
Why Today’s Founder CEOs Should Google… Google
Lore has it that when Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page raised some $25 million from venture capital icons Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia … [Read more...]
Small-Cap Takeaways From Facebook’s Year of Falling Face-First
By most measures, 2018 was a tough year for Facebook. In addition to losing nearly a quarter of its stock market value between June and December, … [Read more...]
A Resolution for Governance “Experts”
Every week I sit with small-cap board members who are confused by what they read in governance books and articles and hear at conferences. Sometimes I … [Read more...]
Boardrooms, Abbey Road, and Mountaineering
Adam J. Epstein has a wide-ranging (and sometimes lighthearted) discussion with BoardProspects CEO, Mark Rogers. On book writing, catch phrases, … [Read more...]
Tesla’s Board Was A Buy-Side Failure
Countless articles have been written, and interviews undertaken, in the last couple of months regarding Tesla’s travails, and the behavior of its CEO, … [Read more...]
Everything You Wanted to Know About Microcap Boards
A recent, groundbreaking piece of research entitled Microcap Board Governance (which was undertaken by Annalisa Barrett and commissioned by IRRC … [Read more...]
The Transition from Large-Cap to Small-Cap Boardrooms Can Be a Rocky One
Experienced small-cap investors are often circumspect when large-cap officers and directors join the board of a small-cap company. Precedent suggests … [Read more...]
