17 June, 2019
Shaping the boards of the future
There have been enormous changes in the way organisations and individuals work over the past 20 to 30 years, but the structure of boards has not changed at anything like the pace of the organisations ...
11 June, 2019
Broadening board diversity is good corporate governance
Good governance lies at the heart of sustainable businesses. It is vital that directors, executive and non-executive alike, work to ensure their board delivers for all stakeholders, including sharehol...
29 May, 2019
Banking on better cybersecurity
J P Morgan Chase’s chief executive and chair Jamie Dimon has been touted as a potential US presidential candidate, but anyone scouring his annual letter to shareholders for evidence of political amb...
21 May, 2019
Practical steps needed to boost gender diversity on US boards
Looking at the evidence, the US does not perform well when it comes to appointing women to boards. According to
10 May, 2019
Designated non-executives set to represent workforce views
Last week investors in Schroders, the UK asset manager, signed off on the company’s annual report for 2018. Nothing unusual in that, but it was the first known report to contain details of a new fea...
1 May, 2019
Theresa May’s worker representation proposal fails to gain support
Theresa May came to power in 2016 declaring a host of radical...
26 April, 2019
Lack of turnover slows progress for women on US boards
The case for boardroom diversity, whether it be gender or ethnicity, has been made; there can be few boardroom leaders left in post who fail to see the benefits. And yet, the sheer obstinacy of boardr...
16 April, 2019
Shareholders focus attention on diversity and climate
If you are a company chair and fail to ensure your board is diverse you can bet some significant shareholders will now vote against your reappointment. That’s the message this week from Legal and...
10 April, 2019
The gendered corporation
In the wake of the most recent economic crash, popular analysts looked at the gender of those involved in corporate governance and asked whether the recession would have happened if there were more wo...
24 August, 2018
