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2020 - 2026
Bad boards can destroy businesses and good boards can help build them. But what actually makes a good board? I once ran a “smallish” company that was growing quite fast. We’d outgrown our serviced offices and were looking for premises of our...
Partisanship is often considered a drag on productivity, particularly when there’s a strong mix of left- and right-leaning perspectives within a given group. Recent research indicates otherwise. Boards with varied political leanings are actually more inclined to...
Women now hold 29.6% of Russell 3000 board seats, down from 29.9% in the prior quarter. The decline is small on its own, but it continues a pattern that has held for more than a year. Women's board representation peaked at 30.3% in the first quarter of 2025 and has ticked down or held flat nearly every quarter since. At the current pace...
Was the quarterly board meeting built for a world that doesn’t exist anymore? This is a question Amy Shenkan, director of EverCommerce and RingCentral provocatively asks. The once-a-quarter board meeting cadence has quietly become a governance risk in itself, one that could cause boards to fall behind the pace of the businesses they oversee...
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As a business operating on the front line of leadership, our daily interactions and insights tell us that the prevailing stories about women CEOs are sometimes different from those of their male counterparts. We wanted to dig deeper and better...
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concerns have become some of the top issues for corporate America in recent years. However, discussions surrounding these initiatives have become highly politicized and polarized, with anti-ESG shareholder proposals on the rise, certain companies rolling back their DEI initiatives, and falling shareholder vote support for various environmental and social proposals in recent years....
Technology and sustainability are key areas of strategic focus where boards are deepening their oversight at the committee level. Some large-cap boards have added technology or sustainability committees...
Directors are assessing the November elections and what different results would mean. According to our October 2024 Pulse Survey, 76% of directors say the US regulatory environment poses a moderate or serious risk. And regardless of who wins the election, 81% agree or strongly agree there will be more regulation....
LATEST STATISTICS
2020 - 2025
Compiled with insights from 500+ acting directors, this white paper analyses and outlines boardroom readiness in 2026. Cybersecurity threats, ESG strategy, regulatory demands and AI integration are reshaping today’s boards. Discover how senior leaders are navigating...
The 10th review, published as Multilateral Staff Notice 58-317 Review of Disclosure Regarding Women on Boards and in Executive Officer Positions (Year 10 Report), revealed consistent numbers of women on boards and in executive officer positions for non-venture Alberta-based issuers compared to Year 9 and overall increases in representation since the first review. Year 10 marks the final year of this review....
The number of women on boards varied by industry. The utilities, manufacturing and real estate industries had the highest percentage of issuers with one or more women on their boards.7 The biotechnology, mining and financial services industries had the lowest percentage of issuers ...
Deloitte Global Boardroom Program’s new report reveals that women hold less than a quarter (23.3%) of board seats globally, a 3.6% increase from the last edition published in 2022....
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The Haskayne School of Business delivers two Directors Education Programs (DEP) jointly developed by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto...
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