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How Boards Are Destroying Corporations

The foundering Kraft buyout of Cadbury is the latest example of how corporate boards are costing us trillions. David Zweig and John Gillespie on how shareholders need to get tough.

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When companies award billions of shareholder dollars to bailed-out Wall Street bankers, it's like taking candy from a baby—and the babies are all the rest of us as shareholders and taxpayers.

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