CEO Succession Practices: 2012 Edition

CEO Succession Practices: 2012 Edition documents and analyzes succession events of chief executive officers (CEOs) of SP Part II-CEO Succession Practices (2011): Includes two sections, “Board Practices in CEO Succession Planning” and “Communication Practices in CEO Succession”; Part III-Notable Cases of CEO Succession (2011): Summaries of 10 episodes of CEO succession that made headlines in 2011 (Advanced Micro Devices; The AES Corporation; Apple; First Solar; Gannett Co.; Hewlett-Packard; HR Newell Rubbermaid; PGE and Yahoo); Part IV-Shareholder Activism on CEO Succession Planning (2011): Discusses a critical policy reversal by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the excludability of shareholder proposals in CEO succession policies (Hewlett-Packard; Kohl's; News Corp; Red Robin Gourmet Burgers; United Natural Foods).Concluding the report is an appendix of The Conference Board Roadmap to CEO Succession Planning, which outlines a series of steps intended to help directors organize succession planning, integrate it with existing board responsibilities, make it transparent to all stakeholders, and ultimately define it as an ongoing element of business strategy.