The roots of good governance (2)

 The Handbook of Board Governance: A Comprehensive Guide for Public, Private, and Not-for-Profit Board Members

Contents:

1 The Handbook of Board Governance: An Introduction and Overview 1

Richard Leblanc

I The Board’s First Responsibility: The Right CEO 43

2 CEO Succession Planning Trends and Forecast 45

Gary Larkin

3 CEO Succession Planning 58

David F. Larcker and Brian Tayan

4 CEO Succession: Lessons from the Trenches for Directors 77

Mark B. Nadler

Appendix 1 Model CEO Succession Planning Charter 98

Richard Leblanc

Appendix 2 Model CEO Position Description 105

Richard Leblanc

II The Board’s Second Responsibility: The Right Board Chair 111

5 The Nonexecutive Chairman: Toward a Shareholder Value Maximization Role 113

Henry D. Wolfe

6 Great Boards Don’t Exist Without Great Chairs 148

Elizabeth Watson and Heather Kelsall

7 What’s in a Name? The Lead Director Role at U.S. Public Companies 164

Richard Fields and Anthony Goodman

Appendix 3 Model Board Chair Position Description 192

Richard Leblanc

III Who is at the Board Table? Board Composition, Dynamics, and Decision-Making 197

8 Director Independence, Competency, and Behavior 199

Richard Leblanc

9 Board Behaviors: How Women Directors Influence Decision Outcomes 233

Dr. Mary Halton

10 The State of Gender Diversity in Boardrooms 253

Dr. Nancy Gianni Herbert

11 Every Seat Matters 269

Annie Tobias and Lina Pallotta

12 The Art of Asking Questions as a Director 283

J. Lyn McDonell

13 Board Succession, Evaluation, and Recruitment: A Global Perspective 301

Jakob Stengel

Appendix 4 Model Individual Director Position Description 319

Richard Leblanc

Appendix 5 Model Conflict of Interest Policy for Directors 323

Richard Leblanc

IV The Work of the Board 333

A. Climate governance 333

14 Climate Change and Directors’ Duties: Closing the Gap Between Legal Obligation and Enforcement Practice 335

Ellie Mulholland, Sarah Barker, Cynthia Williams, and Robert G. Eccles

15 Board Oversight and Climate Change: What Directors Need to Know 369

Patricia A. Koval

16 Responsible Boards for a Sustainable Future 398

Dr. Yilmaz Argüden

17 Corporate Governance to Advance Business and Society 434

Alice Korngold

B. Technology Governance 467

18 Technology and the Corporate Board 2020 and Beyond 469

Dr. Gary L. Evans

19 Responsive Governance in a Digital World: The Need to Up-Skill 492

Dr. Elizabeth Valentine, Dr. Steven De Haes, and Dr. Anant Joshi

20 The Impact of Blockchain Technology for Corporate Governance 526

Jack J. Bensimon

21 Blockchain: An Introduction for Boards of Directors 556

Dr. Elizabeth Valentine, Dr. Greg Timbrell, Lachlan Feeney, and Dr. John Puttick

22 Reflections of a Board Chair on the Christchurch Massacre: Governing Social Media 578

Drew Stein

C. Risk and Financial Governance 595

23 Financial Literacy and Audit Committees: A Primer for Directors and Audit Committee Members 597

Jason Masters

24 Corporate Governance in an Age of Populism 624

John Zinkin

25 A Call to Action for Geopolitical Governance 641

Sean West and Rohitesh Dhawan

26 Governing Boards, Risk Management, and Deliberative Thinking 655

Michael Useem

27 Lawyers’ Advice to Directors on Overseeing Executive Pay 672

Howard Levitt and Allyson Lee

28 Accountant’s Advice to Company Directors: Directors’ Obligations to Detect Top-10 Frauds 687

Dr. L. S. (Al) Rosen

29 Ten Tell-Tale Signs ofPossible Fraud: A Director’s Primer 704

James Hunter

30 100 Questions Directors Should Ask When Assessing the Effectiveness of Risk Systems 713

F. Edward “Ted” Price

31 Risk Oversight for Directors: A Practical Guide 719

Stephen J. Mallory

32 Risk Governance: Leading Practice and Demographic Impacts 739

Ingrid Robinson

D. Strategic Governance 759

33 Agile Governance 761

Scott Koerwer and Joseph Perfetti

34 The Three Dilemmas for Creating a Long-Term Board 786

Ariel Fromer Babcock, Robert G. Eccles, and Sarah Keohane Williamson

35 Strategic Blindspots in the Boardroom 815

Estelle Métayer

E. Human Capital and Compensation Governance 839

36 Winter is Coming: The Approaching Human Capital Management Storm 841

Solange Charas and Michael Young

37 The Effective Compensation Committee 861

Steven Hall and Steven Hall Jr

38 Compensation Governance and Performance-Based Executive Compensation 889

Paul Gryglewicz

39 Measuring and Improving Pay for Performance: Board Oversight of Executive Pay 906

Stephen F. O’Byrne

40 Designing Performance for Long-Term Value: Aligning Business Strategy, Management Structure, and Incentive Design 930

Mark Van Clieaf

41 Mind the Gap: How Human Resources Can Become More Integral to the Corporate Boardroom Agenda 953

Jay A. Conger and Edward E. Lawler III

F. Legal and Governance Responsibilities of Directors 967

42 Board Risk and Responsibility Under Regulatory and Criminal Law 969

Norm Keith

43 Riding Between Cars: The Position of the Corporate Secretary 987

Douglas K. Chia

44 Ensuring Good Governance and Business Success in International Subsidiaries 1004

Thomas C. Sears

V Shareholder Engagement and Board Accountability 1021

45 The Rise of Investor Stewardship 1023

Stephen Davis

46 Director/Shareholder Meetings 1049

Stephen Erlichman

47 Dual-Class Share Firms in Developed Market Economies 1066

Anita I. Anand

48 For Directors: The Long-Term Relationship Between Directors, Companies, and Institutional Investors 1088

Carol Nolan Drake

49 Proxy Scorecards Will Empower Investors 1111

James McRitchie

VI Not-For-Profit Governance 1127

50 Charitable and Not-for-Profit Organization Governance 1129

Donald J. Bourgeois

51 The Best of Boards, the Worst of Boards: The Not-for-Profit Experience 1145

Adam Quinton

52 Fundraising Best Practices for Not-for-Profit Boards of Directors 1164

Stephanie Cory

VII Small and Medium Company Governance 1179

53 Governance of Small and Medium-Sized Entities 1181

Jo Iwasaki

54 Private Versus Public Company Governance: Top-13 Questions for Board Members to Consider 1197

Carol Nolan Drake and Sally J. Curley

55 Cannabis Governance: Advice for Current and Prospective Directors in This Emerging Industry 1220

Steve Chan

VIII Global Corporate Governance 1229

56 Cross-Border Corporate Governance 1231

Hari Panday

57 Corporate Governance in Asia-Pacific 1260

John Zinkin

58 Boards of Directors of Chinese Companies 1287

David H. Zhu, Wei’An Li, and Yaowei Zhang

59 The Russian Corporate Governance Story 1316

Alexander A. Filatov

60 CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Governance 1333

Ronaele Dathorne-Bayrd

61 King IV: Taking Corporate Governance to the Next Level 1343

Parmi Natesan and Dr. Prieur Du Plessis

How to fix current public problems?

 Solving Public Problems. A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

A radical rethinking of the role of the public servant and the skills of the public workforce, this book is about the vast gap between failing public institutions and the huge number of public entrepreneurs doing extraordinary things—and how to close that gap.  

Medtech market access

 Bringing a Medical Device to the Market . A Scientist’s Perspective

Pharma and Medtech market access

 Commercializing Successful Biomedical Technologies

Contents

1 - The biomedical drug, diagnostic, and devices industries and their marketspp 1-35

2 - Markets of interest and market research stepspp 36-62

3 - Intellectual property, licensing, and business modelspp 63-103

4 - New product development (NPD)pp 104-171

5 - The regulated market: gateway through the FDApp 172-225

6 - Manufacturingpp 226-263

7 - Reimbursement, marketing, sales, and product liabilitypp 264-316

Wellbeing as a top priority

Wellbeing. Alternative Policy Perspectives

Open access book by Tim Besley et al.

Why not focus directly on increasing measured human happiness? Why not try to improve people’s overall quality of life, as it is subjectively seen by citizens themselves?

Contents:

 Introduction: Making Wellbeing Policies Effective

Timothy Besley & Irene Bucelli

Wellbeing as the Goal of Policy

Richard Layard

Accounting for Consequences and Claims in Policy

Paul Dolan

Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Public Policy: On the Dangers of Single Metric Accounting

Johanna Thoma

Wellbeing in Public Policy: Contributions Based on Sen’s Capability Approach

Paul Anand

Incorporating Wellbeing and Mental Health Research to Improve Pandemic Response

Michael Daly & Liam Delaney

COVID-19 and Mental Health and Wellbeing Research: Informing Targeted, Integrated, and Long-Term Responses to Health Emergencies

Annette Bauer

Health, Wellbeing, and Democratic Citizenship: A Review and Research Agenda

Christopher J. Anderson et al.

Health and Disability Gaps in Political Engagement: A Short Review

Mikko Mattila

Pharma competition and innovation

 My speech at the Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya, 22/11/2022:

Reframing the human body as a cellular ecosystem

 The Song of the Cell. An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

In The Song of the Cell, Mukherjee tells the story of how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. He seduces you with writing so vivid, lucid, and suspenseful that complex science becomes thrilling. Told in six parts, laced with Mukherjee’s own experience as a researcher, a doctor, and a prolific reader, The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate—a masterpiece.

A must read!!! 

Storm warning (to whom it may concern) (2)

 Disorder: a history of reform, reaction, and money in american medicine

Precision medicine (4)

 Genomic and Precision Medicine. Foundations, Translation, and Implementation

Precision medicine (3)

The Politics of Personalised Medicine. Pharmacogenetics in the Clinic

Personalized, stratified or precision medicine: the expectations behind a concept

 Contested futures: envisioning “Personalized,” “Stratified,” and “Precision” medicine

Rather than pinpointing which of these terms is the “correct” one or delineating the “true” meaning of each, to know how we should critically approach the concepts we need an awareness of the discursive contexts in which they are mobilized. This is because the context ultimately structures the social and ethical implications that “personalization,” “stratification,” or “precision” will have for medicine and healthcare systems, and for different stakeholders. As big health data, predictive and systems-level analysis are, themselves, emergent phenomena, the terminology applied in the discursive spaces around these new biotechnologies and approaches cannot be abstracted from their context. Rather, when we apply the “personalization,” “stratification,” and “precision” terms, we invoke particular associations, connotations, “hopes” and “truths” that are part of pre-existing epistemologically and ethically loaded discourses that reflect broader and weightier struggles over what is a good future.

 

Pharma, big pharma (18)

Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution

This book explores how the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector is affected by innovation, growth and public policy.

Precision medicine (2)

 Genomics and the Reimagining of Personalized Medicine

Pharma, big pharma (17)

 Big Pharma. The Money Behind the Pills

Contents:

Chapter 1

Big Pharma’s New Deal: Acquisition and Little Innovation

Blockbuster Drugs Are So Last Century BY ALEX BERENSON

When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder BY JANET RAE-DUPREE

Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe BY GINA KOLATA

Are Doctors Too Wary of Drug Companies? BY PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D.

Valeant’s History of Deal-Making BY WILLIAM ALDEN

Roche to Buy InterMune for $8.3 Billion BY ANDREW POLLACK AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED

Why Are So Few Blockbuster Drugs Invented Today? BY DAN HURLEY

$2.6 Billion to Develop a Drug? New Estimate Makes Questionable Assumptions BY AARON E. CARROLL

Stop Subsidizing Big Pharma BY LLEWELLYN HINKES-JONES

Ways to Fund Research on Rare Diseases THE NEW YORK TIMES

AstraZeneca to Acquire Majority Stake in Acerta Pharma BY CHAD BRAY

Explaining Valeant: The Main Theories BY STEVEN DAVIDOFF SOLOMON

Chapter 2

Monopolies and Exclusivity Drive Price Spikes

Runaway Drug Prices BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

Costly Hepatitis C Drugs for Everyone? BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

New Cholesterol Drugs Are Vastly Overpriced, Analysis Says BY ANDREW POLLACK

Inflated Drug Prices THE NEW YORK TIMES

Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight BY ANDREW POLLACK

Big Price Increase for Tuberculosis Drug Is Rescinded BY ANDREW POLLACK

Valeant Under Investigation for Its Drug Pricing Practices BY ANDREW POLLACK

Senators Condemn Big Price Increases for Drugs BY ANDREW POLLACK

No Justification for High Drug Prices BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

Another Drug Pricing Ripoff BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

The EpiPen, a Case Study in Health System Dysfunction BY AARON E. CARROLL

The Complex Math Behind Spiraling Prescription Drug Prices BY KATIE THOMAS

The Lesson of EpiPens: Why Drug Prices Spike, Again and Again BY ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

Chapter 3

Disease Branding and the Profusion of Diagnoses

Ritalin Wars BY JUDITH WARNER

Disease Branding BY BEN SCHOTT

Still the ‘Age of Anxiety.’ Or Is It? BY DANIEL SMITH

Ruling Is Victory for Drug Companies in Promoting Medicine for Other Uses BY KATIE THOMAS

A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise BY ALAN SCHWARZ AND SARAH COHEN

Is It Really A.D.H.D. or Just Immaturity? BY KJ DELL’ANTONIA

Overselling A.D.H.D.: A New Book Exposes Big Pharma’s Role BY STEVE SILBERMAN

A Profusion of Diagnoses. That’s Good and Bad. BY DHRUV KHULLAR, M.D.

Chapter 4

The Money Behind Epidemics: Preventing, Treating and Healing

For Profit, Industry Seeks Cancer Drugs BY ANDREW POLLACK

F.D.A. Advisory Panel Backs Preventive Use of H.I.V. Drug BY DENISE GRADY

Advocating Pill, U.S. Signals Shift to Prevent AIDS BY DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.

Painkillers Resist Abuse, but Experts Still Worry BY ALAN SCHWARZ

The C.E.O. of H.I.V. BY CHRISTOPHER GLAZEK

The Insanity of Taxpayer-Funded Addiction BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

F.D.A. to Expand Medication-Assisted Therapy for Opioid Addicts BY SHEILA KAPLAN

As Opioid Prescriptions Fall, Prescriptions for Drugs to Treat Addiction Rise BY ABBY GOODNOUGH

Chapter 5

The Trump Administration vs. Big Pharma

The Real Reason Medicare Is a Lousy Drug Negotiator: It Can’t Say No BY MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

The Fight Trump Faces Over Drug Prices BY KATIE THOMAS

Trump Vows to Ease Rules for Drug Makers, but Again Zeros In on Prices BY KATIE THOMAS

Drug Lobbyists’ Battle Cry Over Prices: Blame the Others BY ERIC LIPTON AND KATIE THOMAS

Draft Order on Drug Prices Proposes Easing Regulations BY SHEILA KAPLAN AND KATIE THOMAS

Lower Drug Prices: New Proposals Carry Lots of Promises BY KATIE THOMAS AND REED ABELSON

What Big Pharma Fears Most: A Trump Alliance With Democrats to Cut Drug Prices BY ROBERT PEAR

Trump Proposes to Lower Drug Prices by Basing Them on Other Countries’ Costs BY ROBERT PEAR