Bad boards can destroy businesses and good boards can help build them. But what actually makes a good board? I once ran a “smallish” company that was growing quite fast. We’d outgrown our serviced offices and were looking for premises of our...
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Partisanship is often considered a drag on productivity, particularly when there’s a strong mix of left- and right-leaning perspectives within a given group. Recent research indicates otherwise. Boards with varied political leanings are actually more inclined to...
Women now hold 29.6% of Russell 3000 board seats, down from 29.9% in the prior quarter. The decline is small on its own, but it continues a pattern that has held for more than a year. Women's board representation peaked at 30.3% in the first quarter of 2025 and has ticked down or held flat nearly every quarter since. At the current pace...
Was the quarterly board meeting built for a world that doesn’t exist anymore? This is a question Amy Shenkan, director of EverCommerce and RingCentral provocatively asks. The once-a-quarter board meeting cadence has quietly become a governance risk in itself, one that could cause boards to fall behind the pace of the businesses they oversee...
Board materials can sometimes appear overly polished. But according to Suzan Morno-Wade, director and compensation committee chair of Latham Pool Products Inc., and director and compensation and leadership development chair of Veritiv Holdings, polished isn’t the same as realistic, and nowhere is that gap wider than in succession planning...
Just 37 percent of directors describe their board as an essential tool for value creation, while 63 percent believe boards could be making a greater contribution...
Boards are already moving toward more continuous, forward‑looking governance, but the next phase will demand bolder changes to agendas, data, tools and...
The biggest threat to Canadian companies exists in the boardroom. Board-level governance failures can destroy billions in shareholder value, ruin reputations and trigger crises that were entirely...
Amid a politically charged moment for corporate diversity efforts, a decline in women's representation in leadership roles registers as a warning sign. But the most alarming cause of the slide may be hidden below the headline numbers. Women's representation on Russell 3000 corporate boards fell...
Corporate governance is entering one of its most demanding eras. As boards head into 2026, they face a convergence of rising risk, regulatory pressure, geopolitical uncertainty and accelerated technological change, all of which...