REIT management and boards of directors should review their defensive profile and consider whether to prepare a rights plan...
Barclays' (NYSE:BCS) largest shareholder and activist investor Edward Bramson suspended his campaign to unseat Barclays CEO...
With sudden changes due to a crisis, CISOs face many security and operational challenges. Taking a leadership approach is critical...
The Covid-19 pandemic crisis has already had a massive impact on every company all over the world. As an executive coach who has worked with CEOs from startups to Fortune 500 companies as well as with boards of directors, I’ve been helping my clients to adapt to this changing environment...
As the nation's largest private employer, Walmart could lead the way during the Covid-19 crisis in treating its employees like the essential workers that they are...
Boards of Directors need to ensure companies take care of their employees and customers as well as look to the horizon...
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of board-level oversight of workforce issues at public companies. How boards have managed mandatory shutdowns and the ongoing return to work are likely to have a significant and lasting impact on company reputation and performance...
American investors pay $100 billion every year in mutual fund fees. These fees are deducted from their savings and reduce future investment returns. Over 20 years, the compounded drag on investment returns is well into the trillions, which begs the question: Is even one dollar of these fees “excessive” under the fiduciary standards of the Investment Company Act?...
May has been a busy month for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings and disclosure at the US asset management industry’s top regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) between Chairman Jay Clayton's warning yesterday on ESG ratings and a recommendation earlier this month for ESG disclosures...
For profit and non profit corporations are governed to benefit a corporation and its shareholders or, from the non profit perspective, its charitable purpose/members...
Pay for CEOs topped $12.3 million at the biggest U.S. companies last year, and the gap continued to widen between chief executives and the workers they are shepherding ...
The typical pay package for CEOs at the biggest U.S. companies topped $12.3 million in 2019, and the gap between the boss and their workforces widened further, according to AP’s annual survey of executive compensation...
Succession planning should always be a business priority. However, during an unprecedented global pandemic with hundreds dying every day, planning for succession is simply mandatory...
A critical component in developing comprehensive client insights in your proposals is knowing how a client’s executives are compensated. Yet in my experience, most strategic account managers and sellers do not use executive compensation in their sales process...
Could board directors and executives have anticipated the pandemic? Yes, responded Louise Pentland, an executive at PayPal, the payments company, and a non-executive director of Japan’s Hitachi, during a recent webinar...
The first quarter of 2020 marked the end of an 11-year bull market and was characterized by volatility. While the entire market has been rocked by the pandemic, it appears that sustainable funds based on environmental, social and governance — or ESG — ratings proved relatively stable over the first quarter of 2020...
The focus on human capital and talent in corporate governance is intensifying, as more stakeholders—led by large institutional investors—seek to understand how companies are integrating human capital considerations into the overarching strategy to create long-term value. After all, a company’s intangible assets, which include human capital and culture, are now estimated to comprise a significant portion of a company’s market value...
Amid all the horrors of 2020, ESG ETFs have so far suffered only two weeks of outflows, both of minimal amounts. Meanwhile, when it comes to investment performance ESG has also had a good crisis...
This Governing Health series examines how traditional governance practices may change and how boards of directors can position themselves to proactively support their organizations now and as they recover from the COVID-19 shutdown...
It is not unusual for a CEO to comment on the company’s current stock price. It is, however, unusual for a CEO to do so on Twitter in a series of tweets...
As directors of every company grapple with the effects of COVID-19 on their organizations, it is inevitable that corporate governance in general and boardrooms specifically will be forever changed, in ways both big and small...
Strategy and Governance Audit committees have a critical role to play for companies in a business environment that has been severely disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to their fiduciary responsibilities for overseeing the external auditor and financial statements, audit committees can contribute valuable oversight duties in areas such as risk management, cybersecurity, and operations and culture...