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...
The new Administration’s commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (”ESG”) issues begs the question of a business’s end goals. We deserve an open and honest debate. Will we get one?...
The gradual pace of social progress is occasionally punctuated by periods of rapid change. We are undoubtedly amid one of these shifts, as pandemic, climate risks, and economic and racial inequality test society’s resilience – and rapidly force new ways of operating...
Credo, the pioneer in the clean beauty movement, and its majority investor, NextWorld Evergreen, are announcing the appointment of Maureen Chiquet as an independent director of Credo’s board...
A twist, but hopefully not twisted . . . a slightly different take on developments likely to impact corporate governance in 2021. A list that doesn’t mention shareholder activism, cybersecurity, climate risks, nor SEC regulation...
By making these strategies part of your search from the beginning, with clearly defined goals and processes, you'll be able to turn your hiring and culture into a competitive advantage...
With annual audits under way, the SolarWinds breach spotlights a couple of major corporate governance gaps—the urgent need for better IT controls and limited board audit committee tech expertise. Such voids are precisely what cyber-criminals exploit. The SolarWinds hack, among its many targets, affected leading tech firms and top government agencies...
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 AI programs achieve sustaining life cycles...
The SolarWinds breach is getting uglier — systemically ugly. The breadth and impact of the SolarWinds breach is described as the most severe cyber-attack in history. There have also been reports of "insider trading" by SolarWinds institutional investors before the breach going public...
Corporations nationwide faced a year full of extraordinary challenges, underscoring the increasing importance of the board member’s role...
Nasdaq’s new “diversify or justify” governance proposal should be recognized as an informal endorsement from a key segment of the business community that “underrepresented communities” must be considered as part of board nomination diligence...
The Wall Street Journal carried an excellent piece last week on how President-elect Biden’s views favoring stakeholder capitalism were formed with Dupont dating back to his first U.S. Senate campaign in Delaware...
After all, it was only 18 years ago when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed into law which forced corporate boards to put financial experts into the boardroom for the first time...
