Tag: strategy
Why the right sponsors are crucial to women’s leadership progress
Women need sponsors who will help them to access the mission-critical assignments that lead to top executive roles.
Board priorities 2022: a checklist for directors
The pandemic continues to impact agendas, but climate, data security and succession are some of the other priorities demanding board focus.
Financial reporting must show real impact—and costs—of ESG activities
To make ESG activities meaningful, IFRS and GAAP should feature data that is relevant to long-term corporate and societal value creation.
Boards must ‘keep momentum going’ to improve ethnic diversity
Research reveals 123 boards in the FTSE 350 now have at least one director who is a person of colour, compared with just 59 last year.
What the decline of General Electric can teach us about M&As
GE has been pursuing M&As for over 20 years—with disastrous outcomes. A closer look reveals obvious governance failures.
Greater board diversity drives company climate action
Research reveals that greater gender and age diversity on boards improves company engagement across all critical climate action indicators.
Elliott Advisors calls for restructuring of the SSE board
The hedge fund has questioned the adequacy of SSE’s corporate governance and criticised the board’s “notable lack of renewables expertise”.
The war for talent: creating competitive advantage through diversity
Companies that strategically invest in diversity and building an inclusive culture will become talent magnets in today’s challenging market.
Watchdog highlights companies’ lack of progress on C-suite succession planning
The UK financial regulator wants to see greater cohesion between succession planning, diversity commitment and board evaluations.
Institute of Directors rejects Boris Johnson’s comments on home working
“It is not for government to second guess what is appropriate for each business,” says the IoD, after the PM criticised remote working.