PepsiCo and HPE take home top honors at Corporate Governance Awards
PepsiCo and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) yesterday won two of the most prestigious honors at the 14th annual Corporate...
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The week in GRC: US companies add more diverse directors and energy companies link ESG to executive pay
– According to The Wall Street Journal , the craze for sustainable investing is extending to the world’s oceans via ‘blue bonds.’...
Directors need to be held accountable for corporate purpose commitments, report says
Board directors should be held accountable for determining and implementing the purposes of their companies, according to a...
Boardroom ESG expertise leads to better sustainability performance, study finds
Companies without any ESG expertise at the board level tend to underperform on sustainability compared with those that do have ESG...
CEOs say cyber-attacks are biggest threat to company growth prospects
Cyber-threats have fast become a major source of anxiety for nearly half (47 percent) of global CEOs, according to a new survey...
Many boards getting insufficient info on post-Covid work strategy, survey finds
The Covid-19 pandemic has required companies and their boards to take a renewed look at working practices and human capital...
Opinion: Fulfilling the promise of The Business Roundtable’s statement on corporate purpose
It’s been two years since 181 CEOs signed The Business Roundtable statement on corporate purpose, committing themselves to serving...
Women occupy a quarter of board seats at new TSX-listed companies, data shows
Only a quarter of board seats at newly public TSX-listed companies are occupied by women in 2021, according to data from Women Get...
The board’s role in ESG oversight, according to Bill McNabb
In recent years, definitions of ESG materiality have evolved very quickly. This rapid evolution asks more of corporate boards in...
Boards looking beyond traditional experience for new director appointments
The number of newly appointed directors with traditional backgrounds has fallen from 59.4 percent in 2019 to 56 percent in 2021...
