Topic: Corporate Governance

Yahoo‘s embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, will leave his post after a controversy over his embellished academic credentials embroiled the Web company, the New York Times reports.   Read More

Yahoo confirmed Sunday Chief Executive Scott Thompson is stepping down after a controversy over a fake computer science college degree on his biography. Thompson is the third CEO to leave the company in three years.    Read More

While many companies are stripping away some of the costly perks bestowed on CEOs, one remains a staple of many executive compensation packages: the country club membership.   Read More

The elephant in the room in the wake of the Wal-Mart spacer fiasco is whether we should accept, cover-up or no cover-up, the concept of bribes, graft and outright corruption as simply a way of doing business abroad? Herb Greenberg examines.   Read More

In this Guest Blog, former CEO Carly Fiorina shares her thoughts on the widening bribery probe writing, "Facing extremely serious charges of large-scale bribery and a multi-year cover-up, the Wal-Mart Board should immediately appoint a completely independent team to determine the facts."    Read More

As Best Buy works on hashing out the terms of CEO Brian Dunn’s resignation, speculation continues about who ultimately will lead the company.    Read More

Warren Buffett says along with equities, single-family homes are a very attractive investment right now.  Appearing live on CNBC's Squawk Box, Buffett tells Becky Quick he'd buy up single family homes if it were practical to do so.  He also revealed he put 175 million euros into each of eight European stocks on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of 2011.   Read More