Talent is key to corporate success, investors say
Institutional investors see talent management and climate change as the stand-out issues factoring into companies’ strategic...
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Dealing with activist directors with an M&A agenda
This past year, more than ever, activist investors called for the companies they targeted to put themselves up for sale or divest...
Interview with Carol Ward: Lifetime achievement award winner
One of the major projects you worked on was the 2012 spin-off of Kraft Foods’ North American grocery business. What were some of...
A career of success in deals and mentoring
Carol Ward is this year’s recipient of the lifetime achievement award as a result of her work both in guiding major firms through...
How Atlas Air’s Kokas aims high on governance
Adam Kokas is a man with his hands on many governance levers. As executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Atlas...
Salesforce.com’s creative use of in-house tools aids governance
Our judges’ comments on Salesforce’s use of technology in the governance space range from the impressed – ‘outstanding’ and...
The week in GRC: Goldman Sachs wants IPO-stage board diversity, and Xerox to nominate new HP board
– The Guardian reported that Sainsbury’s, Lego and H&M are among the companies to make a CDP-produced list of companies deemed to...
How Guardian targets best practices as a private company
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is a mutual company, with policyholders instead of shareholders. ‘People count, and...
How VF Corporation crunches the numbers on compliance
VF Corporation is in the creative business of clothing, with a portfolio of brands including Vans, The North Face and Timberland...
Boards urged to target talent and strategy in 2020
The role of the board has shifted such that key targets for directors this year include releasing the value of human capital...
