Many people have given us help during the Beta test phase of this page. Thank you. We have worked hard to correct the several mistakes, particularly having to do with downloading the Video. Hopefully, this version will give you easy access to the site. We have added a substantial selection of new video and audio materials. The site is conceptually divided into two parts. In the first, I try to give you access to speeches, papers, interviews, books and tapes that account for the variety of efforts I have initiated over the past twenty years. In the other, I continue to point out what remains to be done and to call on the appropriate people to do
it.
This is a very exciting project for me as it represents the culmination of twenty-five years of commitment to the idea of corporate governance. Frankly, only great good fortune in the advance of a global economy and communications technology permits me to carry on the work through this medium. With my many partners over the years, I have tried to promote the notion of ownership based corporate responsibility. The attached materials that I am adding today to the site can be understood well in that context:
Governance as a field of academic study.
Announcement on December 2000 of the creation of the Robert Monks Professorship in Corporate Governance at Cambridge University.
Grant of a patent in December 2000 to Robert Monks and Ric Marshall for BRIGHTLINE (all of which can be accessed from a button in the middle of the page; we will shortly mount our “final” “user friendly” version.) permitting both interested students and software professionals to work with an interactive simulation of corporate competition based on externalization policies.
Announcement of the publication of the 2nd edition of CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, the case book edited by Nell Minow and myself, by Blackwell, in April 2001.
Ownership based Corporate Governance as a policy
Publication of my new book NEW GLOBAL INVESTORS - How Shareowners Can Unlock Sustainable Prosperity Worldwide - by Capstone in March 2001.
Review by Sir Adrian Cadbury.
Continuing Efforts to Make Ownership based Governance a Reality
Letters to the U.S. Senate Labor Committee and the Department of Labor drawing attention to defects in the current interpretation and administration of ERISA. {Letter to Honorable Edward M. Kennedy | Letter to Honorable Alan D. Lebowitz}.
Outline of a speech that I will deliver in April in San Francisco setting for the new ownership agenda.
Article for the European Business Forum to be published in the Spring of this year. This article will be published at the end of March / early April as part of a special section on European corporate governance in the Spring 2001 issue of European Business Forum (EBF). For further information about subscriptions go to www.ebfonline.com.
Periodically, I will send you (unless you let me know by sending an email to technical@ragm.com - that you do not wish for any reason to continue to receive my communications) documentation on my continuing efforts to make ownership based corporate responsibility an effective reality. There is much to be done. I am very excited. Don’t be a stranger.
Yours,
Bob Monks
http://www.ragm.com
