The cost of hiring outsiders as CEOs
Does that make any sense? If not, who’s responsible for this trend away from promoting experienced insiders to top leadership...
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Appointing AI to your board
Are boards ready to give a seat at their table to a piece of artificial intelligence purportedly able to make investment decisions...
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Appointing AI to your board
That question may sound like something governance experts shouldn't have to wrestle with until, say, the year 2040. But guess what...
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Keeping your board safe from cyber risk
Corporate cyber-security is probably the hottest of this year’s hot-button issues for directors: how to protect customer data...
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Expanding GRC to improve business performance
Governance, risk and compliance programs that companies originally established to address urgent regulatory demands such as those...
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Will Valeant-Pershing Square alliance set back activism?
Wachtell Lipton, in a client memo last Friday, calls this latest entry in the activist investor playbook 'symbiotic activism'. The...
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Getting your governance team the recognition it deserves
Corporate Secretary welcomes nominations in any of 12 categories. Our editorial team evaluates each nomination based on supporting...
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Vote-counting formulas: at odds with shareholder engagement?
That's one of the conclusions of GMI Ratings, which CalPERS commissioned last fall to study vote-counting practices. In a report...
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Rising shareholder activism around executive pay & severance policies
Last week in Canada, Barrick Gold announced an overhaul of its executive compensation policy ‒ the result of extensive talks...
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Boardroom makeover
Increasingly, corporate boards are taking a long look in the mirror, and many are concluding that they are in need of a makeover...
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