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INTEGRITY: Restoring Trust in American Business and the Accounting Profession (pdf) November 26, 2002
Statement by David M. Walker, CPA, Comptroller General of the United States
Also available at The General Accounting Office website (www.gao.gov)

Bob Monks’ Review of Arthur Levitt’s Take on the Street. What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know. What You Can Do to Fight Back.
See Barron's 12/02/02 issue for published review.

Capitalism without owners will fail: A policymaker's guide to reform
Report written by Robert Monks & Allen Sykes
Published by Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation  www.csfi.org.uk
Distributed by Central Books - available through mo@centralbooks.com
CSFI US Press Release
UK gets ready to adopt a US class act by Florian Gimbel
FT.com November 24, 2002 (FT.com subscription required to view article)
Comment & Analysis: Why it is so hard to fix the flaws of modern capitalism by Martin Wolff
Financial Times; November 20, 2002  (FT.com subscription required to view article)
"Global Investing: Campaigner has lots of fight left in him" by Florian Gimbel
FT.com November 12, 2002  (FT.com subscription required to view article)
"COMPANIES & FINANCE UK & IRELAND: Rent a balance sheet offshore - it's a must" by John Plender
FT.com November 4, 2002  (FT.com subscription required to view article)
"US Activists Turn Up The Heat" by Simon Targett
FT.com November 03, 2002  (FT.com subscription required to view article)
Don't Make Me Say 'I Told You So' : Interview with Bob Monks  by Heather Stewart
The Guardian November 2, 2002
The Enronization of Kentucky's Constitution  by Richard Bennett
Principal, The Corporate Library, LLC
Posted with permission October 28, 2002
"Who Do Fund Managers Serve?" by Ronald Fink, CFO Magazine
October 1, 2002
Creating Value Through Activism: Opportunities and Obstacles (pdf)
Document prepared by the Brandes Institute, a division of Brandes Investment Partners  www.brandes.com
Revised August 2002
Entire report posted with permission
"Severe Earthquake of Corporate America"
Translation of an article printed in The Nikkei Financial Daily
August 29, 2002
How to bring US companies under control
Bob monks interviewed by Simon London of Financial Times
August 6, 2002  (FT.com subscription required to view article)
The Role Of The Board Of Directors In Enron's Collapse Report prepared by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs - United States Senate
July 8, 2002
Executive Remuneration - The Caucus Race?
A report to the International Corporate Governance Network by the subcommittee on executive remuneration.
July 2002
Speech Given to the Japan Association of Corporate Directors  by Robert Monks
July 1, 2002
June 2002 Message from Robert Monks highlighting recent events in Corporate Governance
"Investors of the World, Unite!" by Marc Gunther
Article featuring Robert Monks published in the June 24, 2002 edition of Fortune Magazine and posted at Fortune.com
June 24, 2002
Overcoming the Collective Failures at Enron, Marconi, etc. by Robert Monks and Allen Sykes 
A similar version was published in The Times / UK -  April 27th 2002
(Posted April 27, 2002) 
Lord Young speech given at the 2002 IoD (Institute of Directors) Annual Convention.  Topic: Corporate Governance
(Posted April 24, 2002)   Iod.com
"Corporate Governance"  Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan at the Stern School of Business, New York University
(Posted March 26, 2002)  Federalreserve.gov
Shareholder Capitalism is Damaging Shareholders - The need to Achieve Effective Ownership (pdf)
By Robert Monks and Allen Sykes  
(Posted March 15, 2002)
Chairman Greenspan & Corporate Governance
(Posted March 2002)
Summary of current developments in corporate governance in the U.S. and U.K.  by Robert Monks and Allen Sykes
(Posted March 2002)
US plays catch-up with UK governance standards: Hopes are rising stateside of executives becoming more accountable
by Robert Monks   
(External - Posted March 2002)
John Biggs' Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs  
 (Posted with permission - February 27, 2002)
Monks interview with Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime Reporter
(Posted with permission February 26, 2002)
Just When We Need It Most... Is Corporate Governance Letting Us Down? by John C. Bogle, Founder and Former Chairman, The Vanguard Group Before the New York Society of Security Analysts  
(Posted with permission February 14, 2002)
Encouraging Shareholder Activism (pdf)
(External - Posted February 2002)
THE GLOBALIZATION OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE by Ron Dore, author of Stock Market Capitalism, Welfare Capitalism: Japan and Germany versus the AngloSaxons
(Posted February 12, 2002)
Where Were Enron's Owners? by Robert A.G. Monks  
(External - Posted February 11, 2002)