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Debating Proxy Access with Substance, not Bluster
By Bernard S. Sharfman This post originally was published on the R Street Institute website. Proxy access is the ability of certain privileged shareholders to have their own slate of director nominees...
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Older CEOs Are Staying Longer, New Report Shows
The rate of succession of older CEOs of large U.S. public companies slowed significantly in 2015, bringing to a halt a generational shift in business leadership that had been observed since the...
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UN PRI: What Will its Second Decade Bring to Global Investors?
By Rhonda L. Brauer, Senior Fellow, Governance Center, The Conference Board The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) were launched a decade ago with the strong support of then United Nations...
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SEC calls for mandatory universal proxy cards
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board Governance Center The issue of using universal proxy cards in contested elections has been on The Conference Board Governance Center’s radar...
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Fact of the Week: As companies seek pay-for-performance, stock awards drive...
By Matteo Tonello, Managing Director, Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board Stock awards have taken up the slack of virtually every other component of pay. S&P 500 CEOs receive 47 percent of...
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Introducing Director Notes India
The Directors’ Collective™ has published the first installment of its Director Notes India series, Providing Guidance on Related Party Transactions. The publication is intended to be a resource for...
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Is it Time for Sustainability to be a Pocketbook Issue for Executives?
The Conference Board’s newly released Sustainability Practices 2016 Key Findings report shows there is a significant uptick in the number of companies including sustainability metrics as part of their...
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A Strategic Cyber-Roadmap for the Board
To ensure proper oversight of cybersecurity issues, boards should consider either establishing a special committee of the board of directors or securing access by directors to the objective advice of a...
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Q&A on corporate political spending with Michelle Diggles
Michelle Diggles, a senior political analyst with third way, a centrist think tank that addresses such problems as public policy, recently spoke with Gary Larkin, the corporate governance research...
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Why are women still not getting on boards? They are stuck on the bench
Our Executive Director, Douglas Chia, has penned an article on gender board diversity for the recent issue of Directors & Boards. Below is an excerpt: The reasons women aren’t landing on boards—or...
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Uncertainty a major corporate governance theme in 2017
As corporate governance goes, the uncertainty of 2017 will be its own separate risk for boards and management of companies, big and small, public and private. I say that because of three things: the...
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Universal proxy roundtable highlights publication and primer available
While many Americans are focused on what a Trump administration will mean for such issues as healthcare, immigration, and gender diversity, those in the governance community are also concerned about...
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The Materiality Gap between Investors, the C-suite and Board
By Judy McLevey, former Associate Director, The Conference Board Governance Center Investors, the C-suite and boards have different views about what is, or should be, considered material information. A...
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How Good is Gender Diversity for Boards?
Is it good business for companies to add women to their boards? That is the question two professors—one from Pace University and another from USC—attempted to answer in The Conference Board’s latest...
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How Did we Get Here? The Committee on Corporate Political Spending has Answers
As President Trump—the first sitting executive of a company to become commander in chief— begins to roll out his agenda, many in political circles are asking the question, “how did we get here?” Prior...
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Which Dodd-Frank rules will stay? Which ones will go?
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board Governance Center With a flurry of executive orders in his first two weeks in office, President Trump made one thing absolutely clear. The...
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Is your board prepared for a Trump Tweet attack? Check again
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board Governance Center In the first month of the new Administration, companies are facing a risk they didn’t expect: being the subject of one of...
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Q&A with Katie Paine: How to Prepare for a Trump ‘Tweetstorm’
By Gary Larkin, Research Associate, The Conference Board As I have researched the impact of social media attacks on public companies— namely the recent campaign by President Trump—I have discovered...
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Does your Board Lead or Spectate When it Comes to Strategic Transformation?
By Patrick Dailey and Joel Koblentz Transformation is one of the most challenging competencies a board must master. McKinsey & Co. estimates that 70 percent of transformations fail to achieve their...
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What Every Board Member and C-Suite Executive Should Know About Transforming...
By Terry F. Yosie A growing number of the world’s largest companies are turning to “sustainability” as a strategic lens to help anticipate and navigate the complexity of the international economy, meet...
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