CxO Spotlight: Claire Arnold CEO, LeapFrog Services
- Claire Arnold CEO, LeapFrog Services
What is your favorite restaurant?
For dinner when our adult children are home – Two Urban Licks – it is upbeat, edgy, and fun, with delicious food to boot
For a long discussion over weekend brunch – Carroll Street Café in Cabbagetown
For a good walk and fabulous food – Nan’s
What is your favorite place to go on vacation?
Anywhere cool and relaxing – the lake, the mountains or the coast of Maine
What is the favorite book that you’ve read lately?
No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
Trends in Corporate Governance: Korn Ferry International
Trends in Corporate Governance
Highlights of Korn/Ferry’s 30 th Annual Board of Directors Study
By Alan Neely, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry International
When Korn/Ferry International launched our annual Board of Directors Study in 1973, no one could have predicted that corporate governance would be the critical issue that it is today. A series of defining corporate scandals in the ensuing years spurred legislative changes around the globe, and continue to impact what has become the fast-evolving corporate governance landscape. Findings in the 30 th anniversary edition of our study reveal that the shock waves continue to be felt as organizations examine with a critical eye the size, structure and composition of their boards. Read more
Positive Stockholders Equity: HA&W CPA’s
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD POSITIVE STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
By Mitchell Kopelman, CPA Partner, Habif, Arogeti & Wynne, LLP
“When the accountants changed their minds again”
Your company may have raised equity in the form of Preferred Stock or Common Stock over the past few years. If so, FASB No. 150 may impact your company’s financial statements and how you report and reflect the amounts you raised on your company Balance Sheet. Read more
Tenants Benefit in Commercial Real Estate Downturn: Miller Richmond
Tenants Benefit in Commercial Real Estate Downturn
David J. Rubenstein, Principal,The Miller Richmond Company
Rarely, these days can we go a week without stumbling on doom and gloom articles in the local and national business press about the devastating commercial real estate recession – Rents are down, vacancies are up and tenants continue to downsize and vacate their space. Furthermore, despite the impending economic recovery, we have a long way to go before the commercial real estate market stabilizes. While this news may not be good for a variety of players (landlords, lenders, property managers and building leasing agents), their problems can clearly become opportunities to others, namely savvy tenants. Read more
Who doesn’t know Ricky Steele? Baron PR
- Ricky Steele
Who doesn’t know Ricky Steele?
by Peter Baron, Principal, BaronPR
For so many of us in the Atlanta high tech community, Ricky has been an ever present and towering figure at industry events over the years. It did not take long for most of us to realize that Ricky has a special talent for meeting people and then facilitating introductions that often proved to be mutually beneficial. This winter, Ricky has distilled the essence behind his social networking talent for all to read in a new book, The Heart of Networking. Read more
