The day before Advanced Micro Devices Inc. approved Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su’s bonus in February, the chipmaker scrubbed the gendered title of chairman from its bylaws, part of “technical, modernizing, clarifying and conforming changes.”...
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With all the new challenges coming up, from geopolitics to generative AI and digitization to sustainability, being a board director is probably more complex than ever. New topics pile onto the board agenda almost by the day. We’ve also seen a ...
Faster than a speeding bullet in risk calculations, stronger than a locomotive in team building, and capable of leading tall transformations in a single fiscal year, CFOs are doing more than ever. We asked 600 of them to share what’s next for one of the most important roles in the C-suite....
Best Practices for virtual participation in shareholder meetings: CCGG encourages Boards to approach virtual meetings with a shareholder engagement mindset that prioritizes simplicity of process, transparency of information...
“(V)irtual-only shareholder meetings were originally envisioned as a contingency measure necessitated by the pandemic. But in the ensuing years, their use by corporations has become common practice. In fact, 57 per cent of S&P/TSX 60 companies held virtual-only annual shareholder meetings during the 2023 proxy season...
Top-performing companies with good governance tend to have orderly succession plans and a strong preference for internal candidates, he explains. And CEOs who are promoted internally also tend to have long tenures, partially because they’re usually not taking over during a time of crisis. But the privilege of becoming CEO under such ideal circumstances mainly goes to men because ...
Boards, like the organizations they oversee, are being pulled in multiple directions: The advent of innovative technologies like generative artificial intelligence, evolving stakeholder expectations, demands for climate action, the need for progress on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the changing economic, political, health, and ...
When Helena Helmersson abruptly stepped down as CEO of H&M Hennes & Mauritz last month, the few words she offered to explain her decision were picked over and examined like a sales rack at the fast-fashion retailer…...
Over the past three decades, Canada has made some positive strides in advancing equality for women in business, but there’s still significant work to be done if we are to achieve the success seen in other countries — and if we are to see women reach equality in this century....
n countries with higher levels of economic freedom, people are less likely to subscribe to social norms that prioritize men over women in education, the labour force and political leadership. In more economically free jurisdictions, the government permits individuals to make more of their own economic decisions—what to buy, what to sell, where to work, how to run a business, and so on...