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Last August, it issued guidance to companies it invests in, calling on them to engage with AI as a way to drive profits, but to do so responsibly. A year on, companies generally need to do more, said Carine Smith Ihenacho, the fund's Chief Governance and Compliance Officer....

The surge in activity may lead to more costly battles between activist shareholders and management over leadership changes, spin-offs and outright sales in the coming months, bankers, lawyers and investors said. But uncertainty surrounding when interest rate cuts might come, geopolitical turmoil and a looming U.S. presidential election that could spell big changes in regulatory regimes, could also make corporate fights tougher...

Even with uncertainty over when government-mandated climate disclosures will be issued and what they will look like, experts say companies are still moving forward by measuring their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities. And many businesses are already proactively tracking...

The boards of too many publicly traded companies are downright timid when considering matters involving science and technology. More often than not they focus on security and digitization—a defensive posture that overlooks the bigger opportunities emerging from new materials, space science, and a better understanding of the genome, to name just a few areas...

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An analysis of the boardrooms of the top 3,000 U.S. publicly traded companies known as the Russell 3000 finds that only 30.7% of 587 new board appointments in the first three months of 2024 were women, the lowest percentage since 2017....

The business case for diversity has been established for some time. Companies with more diverse boards have shown that they tend to perform better financially. What’s more, organizations that are more diverse as a whole with respect to gender—from top executives and board members...

New research from IMD and The Boardroom demonstrates that these assumptions are at best outdated and at worst harmful to progress toward greater board diversity. The research is based on an opinion survey of 130 senior women executives in 18 European countries...

The road to gender parity on corporate boards has been a long one, but there are signs of progress. In 2022, for instance, 45% of new Fortune 500 board appointees were women and the percentage of women on these boards had risen to almost 30%....

Directors reported an average of 200 hours per year on board work, a sharp drop from last year’s average of 278 hours. However year-over-year comparisons of this statistic are problematic due to significantly different sample sizes that likely influenced the averages. The 2023 number was based on a follow-up survey of 95...