Buffett calls for more accountability for corporate directors

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Warren Buffett on Saturday called on corporate America to make their boards of d...

- Warren Buffett on Saturday called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less beholden to chief executive officers, perhaps by reducing their pay and requiring that they buy more stock.

Buffett said this can make even “independent” directors resist challenging bad decisions by CEOs, especially in takeovers. “I feel better when directors of our portfolio companies have had the experience of purchasing shares with their savings, rather than simply having been the recipients of grants,” Buffett wrote.

 

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