
26 February, 2021
The purpose and practice of independent board evaluations
As reported by Board Agenda last month, ICSA: The Chartere...
16 February, 2021
Why ESG strategy is a complex corporate challenge for boards
ESG: three simple letters that can stand for total confusion unless it is fully understood by the board. It is not about compliance per se, although some boards may choose to view it that way. It is a...
29 January, 2021
Why 2021 is a year of opportunity for boards to build business resilience
The IIRC’s founder and Chair Emeritus, Professor Judge Mervyn King, recently said that “business is a part of society, not apart from society”. This message has never been more relevant than in ...
20 January, 2021
How should corporate leaders navigate a political crisis?
This week Washington is the scene of Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States. His ascendancy comes just two weeks after insurrectionists, incited by Donald Trump, violent...
18 January, 2021
Boards urged to reform AGMs as part of post-pandemic strategy
Boards have been called upon to improve and rejuvenate their annual general meetings after a year in which four out of five FTSE 350 companies staged their AGMs behind closed doors. A letter to com...
12 January, 2021
Local CEOs ‘spend more on CSR in their communities’
There is much discussion of why some chief executives do corporate social responsibility (CSR) well and others poorly. New research suggests one big factor may be whether corporate leaders are operati...
23 December, 2020
Top stories of 2020: climate, coronavirus and stakeholder capitalism
This year has been one of the most disruptive, enraging, fear-inducing and thought-provoking years on record. The UK entered 2020 with a new government focused on implementing Brexit, yet by the sprin...
21 December, 2020
Pandemic shows ‘broader range of expertise’ is needed on boards
The Covid-19 pandemic has helped crystallise the need to renew efforts on boardroom diversity, according to a report from ethics experts. Researchers from the
11 December, 2020
Australian parliamentary report slams Rio Tinto board and culture
There’s no way of getting around it. The destruction in May of the Juukan Gorge caves in Pilbara, Australia, by Rio Tinto iron ore workers was an outrage and dug one of the deepest reputational hole...
9 December, 2020
LGIM’s Sacha Sadan on stewardship and sustainability
In our latest podcast we interview Sacha Sadan, director of investment stewardship at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) and one of fund management’s most influential thinkers on corpora...- 1
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