Boards are devoting more time to risk oversight, but many are struggling to turn that increased attention into stronger strategic decision-making, according to new research from the EY Americas Center for Board Matters...
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Flawed AI-generated data is heading towards boardrooms but can be headed off or stopped with good systems and governance, according to...
They sit at the top of corporate power structures, influencing and advising management teams and hiring and firing CEOs. But boards don’t always get the attention or recognition bestowed on C-suite leaders...
BDO USA released its 2026 Board Survey today, an annual report polling more than 200 public company board directors on their priorities and challenges in the year ahead. As boards contend with technological disruption, geopolitical instability, economic uncertainty, and rising expectations for growth, directors are increasingly confronting a fundamental governance challenge...
In today’s volatile and interconnected business environment, risks can shift abruptly and cascade at a moment’s notice. Macroeconomic uncertainty, geopolitical disruption, regulatory change, and rapid advances in AI and cyber risk create mounting pressure on companies to strengthen their...
The corporate governance trends for 2026 center on geopolitical volatility, AI oversight, cybersecurity, regulatory fragmentation, and board refreshment. Divergent stakeholder expectations and continuous measurement of board effectiveness complete the...
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...
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...