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Volume 2, Issue 3, November 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER STORY: SUSTAINABILITY
Governing Sustainably: The mainstreaming of a once fringe management philosophy
What is the role of sustainability in good corporate governance?

LEGAL
Share Raid Saga May Trigger Takeover Review
The recent decision of the Takeovers Panel in the controversial Dorchester Pacific/Bridgecorp saga is likely to trigger a review of critical mechanisms used in takeover bids that are covered under the Takeovers Code.

GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT
Strictly Boardroom - How Jim Syme and Kim Ellis run a tidy ship at Waste Management
Most of what makes for a good relationship between a chair and a chief executive is prescriptive. The remainder, according to Waste Management's leadership duo Jim Syme and Kim Ellis, is mutual respect and old-fashioned common sense.

CAREER ADVICE
A Guide for Aspiring Directors
So you want to take on a directorship but are not sure how to go about it - or what you need to know?
Ian Taylor, the driver behind Sheffield's Academy of Corporate Governance, provides some useful guidelines for boardtable aspirants.

PROFILE
A Balanced Life - between the saddle and a seat at the boardroom table
From high school dropout to professional director, it's been a long and somewhat unconventional journey for Joan Withers, who now combines a bucolic rural lifestyle with her boardroom duties.

EDUCATION
The Governance Education Boom
Is it opportunism or a genuine shift towards greater corporate responsibility?
Poor decisionmaking at board level is driving the growth in corporate governance education programmes at tertiary institutes throughout the country. The Director talked to universities and business schools for a comprehensive review of governance education.

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EDITOR'S LETTER
• Sustainable Governance?

TABLED
• Caring Directors Can Add Value
• Appointments

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