Insight
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INSIGHT: Board performance, 22 April, 2025
Who should review your board’s performance?
Rigour and independence are essential for a credible board performance review, as is a process that goes beyond a mere questionnaire.
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INSIGHT: CEO succession, 18 April, 2025
3 transformative approaches to finding the best CEO
Stereotypes, subjectivity and ‘hand-raisers’ can get in the way of choosing the best leader. Here’s how to optimise your selection.
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INSIGHT: Board-CEO relationship, 18 April, 2025
Fostering the board-CEO relationship
Strengthening the foundation of the CEO-board relationship means conflicts can be resolved while maintaining a healthy tension.
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INSIGHT: AI and the board, 14 April, 2025
3 steps to take toward AI governance
How co-secs and corporate governance professionals can help boards get to grips with artificial intelligence.
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NEWS: Risk management, 11 April, 2025
5 risks and opportunities for boards to debate
How best can organisations ride the current disruptive wave of global geopolitical and technological change?
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NEWS: Supply chain risk, 10 April, 2025
Act now on supply chain oversight, boards warned
Board directors need to critically engage with the business’s supply chain activity, a panel of experts heard.
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COMMENT: Board decision-making, 31 March, 2025
How ‘agreeableness’ can help the board
In chaotic and uncertain times, the ‘my way or the highway’ approach can lead to judgmental and ill-informed decision-making.
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NEWS: AI and the boardroom, 26 March, 2025
Corporate world has a ‘huge appetite’ for artificial intelligence
AI could change boardrooms to the extent that directors’ duties would change too, a panel of governance, technology and legal experts heard.
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INSIGHT: Board effectiveness, 20 March, 2025
Boost the IQ of your board papers
Directors can function effectively only if they are well-informed, hence the need for concise, intelligence-driven and relevant board packs.
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INSIGHT: Reputation management, 14 March, 2025
How to protect your business’s reputation
Boards who focus on reputation management well before any hint of trouble are best placed to cope, should disaster strike.
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INSIGHT: Business resilience, 14 March, 2025
A future-fit business for the decade ahead
With a world in ‘polycrisis’, board leadership on sustainability will be critical for competitiveness and long-term viability.
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INSIGHT: UK governance law, 14 March, 2025
A guide to developments in UK governance law
Stay on top of the latest corporate governance legal and regulatory developments that may have an impact on your business.
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COMMENT: Reputational risk, 12 March, 2025
How to do business in the US now
Any foreign company wanting to make progress in the United States will need cast-iron strategies to protect its reputation.
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COMMENT: Directors' duties, 10 March, 2025
A $56bn lesson in corporate governance
The startling sum of Elon Musk’s pay package may be beyond the orbit of other companies, but the governance principles are not.
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INSIGHT: Investor relations, 7 March, 2025
How to improve investor relations
In order to meet stakeholder expectations in today’s volatile landscape, businesses need to prioritise transparency in communications.
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INSIGHT: Crisis management, 3 March, 2025
Could your board cope with a crisis?
To survive a cyber crisis, operational failure or a scandal, boards need to take action on oversight, planning and review.
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COMMENT: Diversity, equity and inclusion, 24 February, 2025
Should boards ditch DEI?
Seven ways to avoid a knee-jerk reaction to the sociopolitical headwinds surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion.
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COMMENT: M&A activity, 20 February, 2025
What is the outlook for M&As in 2025?
As global economic trends respond to geopolitical crises and new US policies, this year is likely to see a rise in M&A deal activity.
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NEWS: Human rights, 17 February, 2025
UN weighs in on EU human rights due diligence debate
UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights calls on EU "not to reopen" controversial measures in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
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INSIGHT: Chief financial officer, 12 February, 2025
How your CFO can boost investor confidence
UK investors expect the chief financial officer to drive growth, while also focusing on organisational purpose.