Climate change is frequently front and center in the conversation about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns. However, social issues are becoming increasingly prominent...
Public expectation that prominent companies respond to key social justice concerns may be the new “cost of doing business” for such noteworthy businesses...
Intangible assets—patents, brands, client relationships, skilled workers and organizational processes—generate most corporate growth and represent 90% of the market value of the S&P500...
As noted in the first sentence of the report, “The year 2020 is forcing a reckoning about the role of the corporation in society, and along with it, the responsibilities of boards of directors to the corporation’s myriad stakeholders.”...
SolarWinds data breach is the stuff of plaintiff attorney’s dreams and corporate director nightmares...
Emerging social responsibility themes relating to income equality and employee wages may sneak up on the unprepared corporate board...
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it will seek comments on whether it should expand its requirements for what public corporations need to disclose with regard to the environment, social, and corporate governance issues, which are commonly referred to as ESG...
The pandemic has made clear the weaknesses in our systems and institutions, but it also offers a chance for us to step up and shape a more equal future...
This blog is a continuation of the Building AI Leadership Brain Trust Blog Series which targets board directors and CEO’s to accelerate their duty of care to develop stronger skills and competencies in AI in order to ensure their AI programs achieve sustaining results...
At the dawn of the 20th century, Maggie L. Walker taught a generation of women how to achieve financial independence and enrich their lives...
As a general rule, obituaries aren’t typical governance briefing material. They’re not often found as a discussion item on a board meeting agenda. But for Allan McDonald, there should be a very explicit exception to that rule. For Mr. McDonald’s story tells of a courageous yet desperate effort to prevent the Challenger space shuttle disaster; a disaster he believed was imminent.
Brick-and-mortar retail continues to be a focus at Ulta Beauty, as the beauty company announced it will open 40 new stores this year..
An entire generation of investors has lobbied companies to use total shareholder return (TSR) as the barometer for executive pay. It has become commonplace mainly because investors believe TSR is a short-cut to align executives’ interests with their own...
Many of the companies that I work with are large, diversified, non-digital-native enterprises. I call them "SuperPowers," though I'd welcome a better name. They're generally Fortune 1000 or even Fortune 100 organizations — a significant percentage of which are in regulated industries like financial services...
President Biden’s supply chain executive order is a significant risk management mandate. It’s also a signal that the Biden Administration is focused on systemic risks...
Most corporate directors are familiar with the term “glass ceiling”—as they should be. Fewer directors are familiar with the term “glass cliff”— but they should be. For their ability to recognize the distinction between the two, and respond to the related challenges, will be critical to a company’s efforts to assure gender equality within its workforce...
Mandy Ginsberg, member of the board of directors of Uber and thredUP, share her career journey of CEO to board of directors...
We live in an age of competing economic narratives. President Biden tells the story that a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill will help the economy, while Republicans tell the story that the bill is too big and will cause inflation...
You say there’s a possible connection between the Super Bowl and corporate governance? Isn’t that a bit of a “Hail Mary” throw?...
Over the past couple of years, business leaders have come under increased pressure to report on their company's environmental, social and governance impacts...
Alphabet, the parent company of Google GOOG -0.2%, is the leading tech company that decided to invest a lot of resources and funding in artificial intelligence. So much so, that the WSJ recently announced that AI is central to Google’s future...
UnitedHealth Group said Andrew Witty has been promoted to chief executive officer in a surprise shakeup that ends the short tenure of David Wichmann as the diversified health care company’s top executive...
It’s fair to say that corporate governance has somewhat of an image problem. In the popular imagination, the company boardroom is where older, stuffy and mostly male directors meet a few times a year to connect with each other and the CEO...
