The board landscape has always been in flux, and directors have always adjusted. In the same way that the push for independence, board diversity, and stronger financial oversight substantially reshaped today’s boardroom, ...

Corporate governance needs to keep pace as the pieces of the mosaic are constantly shifting, with directors addressing more topics and fielding input from more stakeholders. Regulators such as the SEC and EU are mandating increased board responsibility and corporate transparency...

Artificial intelligence (AI), the use of technology to execute or simulate processes that would otherwise require human intelligence, is quickly evolving. Companies have begun to use the rapidly expanding technology to help achieve efficiency, increase competitive advantages, and enhance engagement with stakeholders. Early adopters...

One of the nominating/governance committee’s primary roles has always been to identify and recruit a highly qualified group of people with the right mix of skills to serve on the board. It still is. But the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, California’s new climate...

Women hold less than one-quarter (23.3%) of the world’s board seats. Since 2022, the number of women on boards has only risen by 3.6% and the anticipated timeline for achieving parity has dropped by seven years. Just 8.4% of the world’s boards are chaired by women and 6% of CEOs are women. At the current pace, reaching global gender parity for board chairs and CEOs will not be reached before 2073 and 2111

Respondents, primarily corporate secretaries, in-house counsel, and other in-house governance professionals, represent 101 public companies of varying sizes and industries1 and the findings pertain to these companies. The actual number of responses for each question is provided. Some survey results may not sum...

While there are clearly many priorities for audit committees, there are also limits to what they oversee. The survey questions focused on the main oversight areas within the audit committee’s purview and identified the top priorities for audit committees over the next 12 months. We asked for their top three priorities...

The main 2024 proxy seasons are taking place amid uncertain global macroeconomic conditions, driven by continued geopolitical conflicts, potential delays in expected interest rate cuts, global logistics challenges including shipping disruptions, and heated political environments with several national elections...

A widely accepted notion is that corporate boards function like well-oiled machines. And why shouldn’t they? At their core, boards are more than a group of highly qualified individuals — they are sophisticated teams, assembled to work together smoothly while bringing diversity of thought,...

In the interest of maximizing the long-term return of their investment in each company, the funds seek to ensure that the individuals who serve as board directors to represent the interests of all shareholders are appropriately independent, experienced, committed, capable...