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BUSINESS Steven Boivie, Texas A&M University In December 2001, Enron Corp. collapsed into bankruptcy – at the time the biggest U.S. publicly traded company to ever do so – following years of fraudulent accounting. Two decades later, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes faces criminal charges that she defrauded investors as she built her blood-testing startup. In both cases, the companies’ respective boards of directors have been blamed for allowing misdeeds to happen – or not doing more to prevent them. That’s because boards are broadly seen by regulators, governance experts, lawmakers, newspaper reporters and the public as the main body meant to hold senior executives accountable. Legally, their role as overseers is baked into the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which is the most recent major legisl...

Of the top 100 movies released in 2019, women took just under 11 percent of the directing roles, despite hitting record. Fast Facts Of the top 100 movies released in 2019, women took just under 11 percent of the directing roles. The number of women directing major movies more than doubled to the highest mark ever last year, though they still only accounted for a sliver of those coveted jobs. Women got almost 11% of the directing roles for the top 100 movies released in 2019, according to a study released Thursday by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative at the University of Southern California. Improving diversity has became a major rallying cry across Hollywood, where women routinely have fewer opportunities than men. For example, there ar...

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Women film directors set a record in 2019: New study