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The value of DEI initiatives: Regardless of receiving a DEI-related shareholder proposal, all companies should consider integrating DEI in their business strategy and operations. Indeed, DEI is a vital catalyst for: Enhanced innovation and creativity: Companies with diverse management teams demonstrate 19% higher revenues due to innovation....

A new kind of shareholder activism is rattling companies: “anti-woke” agitators.Shareholders at dozens of big companies, from GE Aerospace to UPS, are voting on proposals opposing environmental and social initiatives this year.....The activists frame the push as getting politics out of business—and suggest getting used to it...

It’s important for the full board to dedicate substantial amounts of time to cybersecurity risk as a collective. A bespoke board session held on the back of a quarterly board meeting is one of the most effective things a board can do to elevate its cybersecurity knowledge....

The number of new director appointments declined from a peak of 467 in 2019 to 386 in 2023—representing a near-record low since 2015. The percentage of women director appointments increased to 43% of all board seats in 2023 from 40% in 2022 (down slightly from a peak of 45% in 2021)...

Chief executive officer (CEO) tenure rates have experienced a significant decline in the past decade. A recent study conducted by Equilar—featured in Barron’s annual Top CEOs issue—has brought the change to light, uncovering a substantial shift in both the median and average tenures of S&P 500 CEOs...

With November’s election on the horizon, the politicization of ESG topics remains a key concern for both investors and corporations. Over three quarters of North American CEO respondents to Teneo’s CEO and Investor Survey have stated that it has impacted the way their business operates. Nevertheless...

Carol Tomé was warned before taking the helm of global shipping company UPS that she would feel lonely. She wasn’t fazed. “I would say, ‘How lonely can it really be? It can’t be that lonely?’ What I’ve since learned is that it is extraordinarily lonely,” she laughed. "When you are a member of an executive team, you hang together...

In recent years, corporate chiefs have contended with everything from labor shortages and strikes to layoffs and culture wars, actual conflicts, the remote-working boom, snarled supply chains, pandemic shutdowns, historic inflation, surging interest rates, and a deeply uncertain economic outlook. Perhaps it's no ...

Knowing the right questions to ask management on material environmental, social, and governance issues has become an important part of a board’s role. Five years ago, our research at NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business found U.S. public boards were not fit for this purpose ...

It’s more common for companies to build incentives into executives’ annual compensation plans rather than their long-term plans. About 86% of companies in the Russell 3000 index that incorporated ESG performance metrics in incentives used annual incentives in 2023 ...