Keeping compliance healthy
Board accountability is a buzz term in recent governance discussions, fueling greater attention to such things as director...
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Lingering suspicion of motives for proxy access
Unsurprisingly, PwC’s newly released 2015 Annual Corporate Directors Survey shows more than a quarter of the nearly 800 directors...
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What's behind DuPont's management shake-up?
There would appear to be limits to how effective shareholder engagement can be, judging by the unexpected news from DuPont on...
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Tips for structuring your company's cyber-risk insurance policy
High-profile data breaches at Sony, JPMorgan Chase, Target, Home Depot and others have become a top concern for many executives...
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Resilience: the key to business continuity
Last Wedneday, Setember 30, was National Preparedness Day, the culmination of National Preparedness Month, the purpose of which is...
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Canadian review of women on boards shows disclosures lacking
The demand for greater transparency about corporate board practices isn’t just an American phenomenon. Nearly a year ago, Canadian...
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The need to dedicate resources to shareholder engagement
Some large US companies still seem to disdain the idea of shareholder engagement. That’s the obvious conclusion to draw from Bank...
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Yates Memo may put damper on corporate co-operation in DoJ probes
A strict missive from the US Department of Justice (DoJ) regarding tougher targeting of individual executives for criminal...
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The changing profile of compliance
Auditing third-party service providers for anti-bribery and corruption compliance is the most challenging anti-corruption issue...
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Looking beyond risk management in succession planning
A feature in the August 24 issue of New York about three potential candidates to be the next publisher of the New York Times got...
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