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.
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 D.C. Area Film Critics Association, and the Association of Women Film Journalists.
Minow wrote the Risky Business column for Bnet and is a member of the board of GMI Ratings (formerly The Corporate Library, where she was editor, chair, and co-founder), an independent research company. She was named one of the 20 most influential people in corporate governance by Directorship magazine and "the queen of good corporate governance" by BusinessWeek Online. She has co-written three books in the field with Robert A.G. Monks.
She was formerly Principal of LENS, an "investment firm that bought stock in under-performing companies and used shareholder activism to increase their value." 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. Furthermore, she "served as general counsel and then 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."
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.
Minow was prominently featured in an October 2009 article in "The New Yorker" about CEO compensation.
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