The major proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis has announced and published its proxy voting guidelines for the Japanese market. On the topic of independent directors, Glass Lewis writes:
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April 4th English “Director Boot Camp” – Now Taking Applications!
This one-dayintensive program teaches participants the key legal and corporate governance knowledge they need to responsibly serve on, report to, or analyze boards of Japanese companies, both public and private. The course consists of short lectures interspersed with ample time for interactive discussion and questions-and-answers about real-life situations that occur on boards, and how to handle them. The course is usually good fun for everybody, since we all learn from each others' experiences, as well as from BDTI. The program will cover topics such as:
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2014 report
The World Economic Forum released its Global Risks 2014 on January 16.
You can download the report from the following URL:
http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2014/
April 17th, “Reading Japanese Financial Statements as a Board Member” (Course)
This course is now fully booked.
Course Description: This is an intensive full-afternoon session intended tobrush-up (or as they say in Japanese, level-up) participants' familiarity with: a) someof the more complex but important topics that arisein interpreting financial statementsin Japan;b) key emerging issues such as IFRS; and c) how strategy and cash flows are reflected in financial statements.
“Does Society Need Altruists? Coevolution of General Trust and Social Intelligence”
Paper by Hiroshi Shibuya,Professor of Economics at Otaru University of Commerce. The altruists ofus had great interest in this paper, which answers the question, are we useful to society?
Freakonomics Podcast on the Pope’s Critique of the Free-Market System in “Evangelii Gaudium” (The Joy of the Gospel)
Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Kaboski resonating with the Pope criticisms of the present free-market system in his“Evangelii Gaudium” (The Joy of the Gospel), in this excellent Podcast by Freakonomics Radio.
Freakonomics Podcast on the Pope’s Critique of the Free-market system in “Evangelii Gaudium” (The Joy of the Gospel)
Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Kaboski resonating with the Pope in this excellent Podcast by Freakonomics Radio…about the globalization of indifference….but also about the importance of the market:But on the other hand, we’ve never seen an example of any country that has escaped extreme poverty because of foreign aid or NGOs.…
Jeffrey Sachs:
BDTI’s Next English “Director Boot Camp”, February 20th, 2014
This one-dayintensive program teaches participants the key legal and corporate governance knowledge they need to responsibly serve on, report to, or analyze boards of Japanese companies, both public and private. The course consists of short lectures interspersed with ample time for interactive discussion and questions-and-answers about real-life situations that occur on boards, and how to handle them. The course is usually good fun for everybody, since we all learn from each others' experiences, as well as from BDTI. The program will cover topics such as:
Possible English Course on “Reading Financial Statements in Japan”
Some of our past Director Boot Campparticipants have asked if we could provide an English-language course on “reading financial statements as a board member” as a follow-up to their “Boot Camp” experience.
Seminars Recently Offered by BDTI – a Long List!
(Most recently updated on April 25,2014). During the past two and a half years, thanks to supportive donations we have received, BDTI has been very active. Not counting our regular intensive Japanese director training program, we have offeredthe followingseminarsand lectures.