Nell Minow

Career

Movie Critic

According to Rotten Tomatoes,

Her reviews, blog, interviews, commentary, and other features appeared on Beliefnet from 2005-2017 and have also appeared on HuffPost, rogerebert.com, and thecredits.org. 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.

Corporate Governance Expert

Minow received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She wrote the "Risky Business" column for BNET and was a member of the board of GMI Ratings, an independent research company, until August 2014, when it was acquired by MSCI. She is vice chair of ValueEdge Advisors. She has co-written three books in the field with Robert A. G. Monks and is founder and editor of publishing company Miniver Press.

She was 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 twice annual appearances on the Motley Fool Money podcast and op-eds in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today, and on network news broadcasts.

She has "written more than 200 articles about corporate governance" and has contributed to a number of business books.

In 2012, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. published Corporate Governance co-edited by Minow and Robert A. G. Monks. Minow was prominently featured in an October 2009 article in "The New Yorker" about CEO compensation. The International Corporate Governance Network (IGCN) gave Minow a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.

References

References

1. "Nell Minow – Critics Choice Association".
2. (2003-11-25). "For Investors, the Blessed and the Basted". Businessweek.
3. (2026-01-15). "A Tribute to Former FCC Chair and Media Champion Newton Minow {{!}} Features {{!}} Roger Ebert".
4. "Rottentomatoes.com Minow Profile".
5. "Nell Minow Movie Reviews & Previews {{!}} Rotten Tomatoes".
6. "Paulzeye.com » Paulzeye interviews distinguished film critic Nell Minow (aka The Movie Mom)".
7. "Homepage | University of Chicago Law School".
8. (6 November 2017). "My Chicago Law Moment: Nell Minow".
9. "Risky Business".
10. "Home".
11. "MSCI to Acquire GMI Ratings".
12. "MiniverPress".
13. "SEC.gov Profile".
14. ''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 (magazine). Fortune]]'''. FEATURES; Pg. 130. May 25, 1998.
15. (2012-06-28). "Nell Minow on Corporate Governance Has Come Far, Sort Of". Wall Street Journal.
16. (2012-01-02). "Corporate Governance". Wiley.
17. (4 October 2009). "The Pay Problem".
18. "Lifetime Achievement Awards presentation in Washington {{!}} ICGN".