Practices of international companies and institutions (ie, hospital
governance) in a specific country, using the approach presented in
'New Corporate Governance' by Martin Hilb (Springer, 4th edition,
New York, 2012) and appropriate literature and guidelines supplied
during the lectures.
OBJECTIVES:
To gain awareness of the state of Corporate Governance in different
parts of the world and to be able to critically analyze Corporate
Governance at firms as well as existing guidelines in general. The
course supplies an integrated approach to the theory and practice
of Corporate Governance. We will develop, introduce and evaluate a
range of new board instruments.
Do 08:00-18:00; 22-107; 17.10.13
Fr 08:00-18:00; 58-515; 18.10.13
Mo 08:00-18:00; 01-U201; 25.11.13
Di 08:00-18:00; 22-104; 26.11.13
Please check the 'Stundenplan online'-Portal for the course
schedule:
www.stundenplan.unisg.ch
Lindenhof Spital (Dr. Doris Benz)
process on the 'Service-Portal'.
More information on the registration was sent by email mid
August.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30
ASSIGNMENTS:
(A) Multicultural team presentation on selected country corporate
governance guidelines: Choose a country and analyze the strengths
and weakness of the country’s corporate governance guidelines.
(B) Multicultural team presentation of a selected company corporate
governance: Apply Prof. Hilb’s KISS principle to your chosen firm
and analyze the quality of their corporate governance. Then make
specific recommendations.
ASSESSMENT:
(i) Final individual written exam (30%)
(ii) Presentation A: Country corporate governance guidelines
evaluation (35%)
(iii) Presentation B: Company corporate governance analysis and
recommendations (35%)
Literature pages / selfstudy:
-Martin Hilb, New Corporate Governance (237 p.), 4th edition, New
York, 2012, Springer
-Corporate Governance Guidelines
-Corporate Governance Toolsets
Please check the 'Service'-Portal for the course outline
