Insight
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INSIGHT: Leadership, 19 August, 2024
How to foster innovation
Aligning the goals of employees, managers and the board creates a productive and efficient corporate environment.
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INSIGHT: Generative AI, 9 August, 2024
What business leaders really think about generative AI
An INSEAD survey offers insights on who will benefit from AI and how attitudes to artificial intelligence differ in Europe, America and Asia.
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INSIGHT: 2024 AGM Season, 8 August, 2024
FTSE 100 sees investor approvals skyrocket
In the 2024 AGM season, for the first time in more than a decade, shareholders passed 100% of FTSE 100 management resolutions.
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INSIGHT: Risk management, 8 August, 2024
5 reasons boards might struggle with risk
Recent failures in corporate governance raise questions about boards’ approaches to identifying and managing risk.
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INSIGHT: Corporate sustainability due diligence, 7 August, 2024
Steps to a sustainable supply chain
The clock has started ticking on the implementation of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
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COMMENT: Audit reform, 5 August, 2024
A perfect storm of governance failings
The need for well-resourced independent assurance, backed by a strong audit reform and corporate governance bill, is stronger than ever.
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INSIGHT: AI governance, 5 August, 2024
Are you ready for the EU’s AI Act?
This summer’s new regulations on using artificial intelligence, including generative AI, are set to have a significant impact.
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INSIGHT: Cyber risk, 1 August, 2024
The paradox of cyber risk and business growth
Risk consensus and confidence in cybersecurity allow boards and organisations to innovate and drive the business forward.
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INSIGHT: Governance, 31 July, 2024
3 key skills questions for the auditco
Audit committees’ oversight responsibilities are growing well beyond their core role, thanks to global uncertainty and changing regulation.
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INSIGHT: Board decisions, 29 July, 2024
Do you have an intelligence mindset?
Every board director knows that smart decision making matters, yet even clever leaders often fall into the traps set by ego.
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INSIGHT: Corporate liability, 25 July, 2024
How to prepare for the new fraud law
Defending your company against failure to prevent fraud means getting ‘reasonable procedures’ in place now.
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COMMENT: AI strategy, 24 July, 2024
Boards must look to next wave of AI now
Artificial general intelligence is coming and time is of the essence: what’s your company’s strategy for 2030?
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INSIGHT: Governance, 22 July, 2024
How the UK governance code update brings business benefits
As boards gird their loins to prepare for updated UK corporate governance requirements from 2026, there’s good news too.
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INSIGHT: Share buybacks, 19 July, 2024
Is there more to share buybacks than boards have thought to ask?
Share buybacks are hugely popular, but boards need to watch their step, not least in terms of what is legal and fair.
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COMMENT: Audit reform, 16 July, 2024
The UK needs an audit and corporate governance reform bill
Adopting proposals ditched by the previous government would foster growth and a transparent, trustworthy business ecosystem.
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COMMENT: Board decision-making, 15 July, 2024
Choose your words carefully
Creating space and time for considered, formal debate of board decisions will allow sense—and true consensus—to emerge.
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COMMENT: Section 172, 12 July, 2024
We need UK business to be a force for good
Amending section 172 of the Companies Act would empower leaders to align the interests of profits and planet.
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INSIGHT: Ethics, 8 July, 2024
How to build corporate integrity
Creating an integrity-first organisation, from the board down, means putting people at the centre of the strategy.
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COMMENT: Ethics, 2 July, 2024
Why doesn’t Britain trust politicians?
Public faith in government and business continues to drop, and business leaders need to take action now to regain it.
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INSIGHT: ESG investment, 1 July, 2024
Aligning investor influence with corporate sustainability
The Investor Relations Dialogue study looked at how to measure, communicate and align investments to pursue sustainability.