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2010
General Governance
Practices
This is our eighth Annual Survey of Selected Corporate Governance Practices of the
Largest US Public Companies (the "Survey" ). Without question, the role of public
company boards and their corporate governance policies and practices continue to
face intense scrutiny. That much of this scrutiny comes from shareholder activists
and institutional investors comes as no surprise. Demands from these shareholders
for greater "shareholder democracy" and involvement in corporate governance
have been growing in line with the remarkable increases in the size of institutional
investors' portfolios over recent decades. Pressures brought by investors on
corporate governance practices and policies have become even more acute in
the last three years.
Corporate Governance of the
Largest US Public Companies
