Nell Minow
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Nell Minow is a film reviewer and writer who writes and speaks frequently on film and media and corporate governance and investing.
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[edit] Personal
The daughter of former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow and sister of law professor Martha Minow, she is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago Law School.
[edit] Career
According to Rotten Tomatoes,
Minow writes as the Movie Mom about movies, television, the Internet, and parenting; her "Media Mom" column appeared in the Chicago Tribune and her weekly advisory for parents about the new movie releases appears in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Kansas City Star. Minow's articles have appeared in other newspapers and magazines, including USA Today and Slate. Minow reviews movies every week on radio stations across the United States and in Canada.[1]
Her reviews, blog, interviews, commentary, and other features appear on Beliefnet. Minow is a member of the Online Film Critics Society, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Washington Area Film Critics Association and is an "editor of the Corporate Library, an independent research firm that rates boards of directors of public companies and compiles research, study and critical thinking about corporate governance."[2]
She was formerly Principal of LENS, an "investment firm that bought stock in underperforming companies and used shareholder activism to increase their value."[2] In addition, she was dubbed "the CEO Killer" by Fortune magazine for her record of ousting non-performing CEOs at companies like Sears, American Express, Kodak, and Waste Management.[3] Furthermore, she "served as President of Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., a firm that advises institutional investors on issues of corporate governance, and as an attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management and Budget, and the United States Department of Justice."[2]
Minow frequently comments on the financial markets in the press and on television, including op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today, and on network news broadcasts. She has reportedly "written more than 200 articles about corporate governance" and has contributed to a number of business books.[2]
[edit] Bibliography
- The Movie Mom's Guide to Family Movies (Avon, 1999; iUniverse, 2d edition, 2004).
- Power and Accountability (1991)(with Robert A. G. Monks)
- Corporate Governance (editions in 1995, 2001, 2003, 2008)(with Robert A. G. Monks)
- Watching the Watchers: Corporate Governance for the 21st Century (1996)(with Robert A. G. Monks)
- Contributed chapters to:
- Law Stories
- The Dance of Change
- The Financial Services Revolution
- Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out
- How to Run a Company
[edit] References
- ^ Rottentomatoes.com Minow Profile
- ^ a b c d SEC.gov Profile
- ^ Garbage In Garbage Out;Waste Management used to be a Wall Street darling, with the kind of growth rate investors love. But then the growth slowed, and the stock dropped, and it became a different kind of company. The kind that cooks the books. Peter Elkind, Reporter Associate Rajiv M. Rao. Fortune. FEATURES; Pg. 130. May 25, 1998.
