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Podcast: Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein
Episode: Peggy Foran: "Corporate Directors Have To Be Their Own Activists"
Description: (1:35) - Start of interview(2:23) - Peggy's "origin story"(3:04) - Her experience at Notre Dame (BA and JD)(4:17) - Her progression from Wall St. law firm work to Mellon Bank, JP Morgan, Pfizer, Sara Lee and Prudential.(6:17) - Dennis Weatherstone (former CEO of JP Morgan) as a catalyst of #corpgov at the bank in the mid-90s.(7:00) - Her move to Pfizer, drawn by Terry Gallagher and Bill Steer focus on #corpgov (pre SOX 2002)(7:50) - The focus on governance in late 1990s - Peter Clapman at TIAA CREF and other institutional investors.(9:31) - On that first meeting of Pfizer's board leaders w...