What should board members expect from their chief information security officers (CISOs) when they’re reporting on cyber risks? And how should board members act towards their CISOs in turn? Diligent, the governance software provider...
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As of Aug. 31, 107 directors at 113 companies had professional experience in cybersecurity, according to research conducted by WSJ Pro Research. Together, those directors held a total of 124 S&P 500 board seats and represented 2.3% of the directors on the boards of companies in the index...
Public companies and their boards of directors face an increasingly complex array of risks that test the resilience of corporate values, strategies, operations, and enterprise risk management frameworks. Tightening monetary policies...
One of the core duties of any board is to renew itself with an evolving set of members who together can help the company thrive into the future. Problems can arise if a board is allowed to get stale and develops a narrow range of group- thinking that misses risks and opportunities...
In the past, boardrooms were populated almost exclusively by current and former CEOs and the occasional CFO. The thinking was that a group of CEOs would have the broad experience to collectively cover any of the issues a company and management team might face. The first crack in that theory...
Nominating/governance committees today are re-focusing on the fundamentals when it comes to board composition. Spencer Stuart’s latest annual survey of nominating/governance committee chairs, conducted in the first quarter of 2023, shows how committees are shining...
These companies are trendsetters and can provide early insights into evolving pay practices across the broader public company marketplace. This report reflects a summary of pay levels and pay practice trends based on 2023 proxy disclosures....
Some companies create the wrong impression about how much board members should get paid. Take Tesla, where board directors were in the news last month for, among other reasons, getting forced to return a sizable chunk....
In the realm of corporate governance, non-executive directors (NEDs) play a crucial role in providing independent oversight, strategic guidance, and diverse perspectives to organizations. As the demands on boards become greater, chairs and nomination committees are looking for NEDs...
When The Globe and Mail released their annual Women Lead Here report in March, it showed that only 6.6 per cent of Canada’s largest publicly traded companies had a woman CEO. Perhaps surprisingly, several of the companies helmed by women were in the mining sector, a traditionally male-dominated industry...
