For decades, CEOs have largely been seen as the top rung of the ladder, the ultimate decision makers and the source of “tone at the top,” to use an ...

Women are taking their rightful spots in American boardrooms in Fortune 1000 companies across the country, but progress is slow. In 2015, 18% of board members in Fortune 1000 companies were women. In 2016, women held 20.2% of board positions (registration required) in Fortune 500 companies – up from 10.2 % in 1996...

Improving corporate governance in Japan means investors should not worry about the low-level growth of the domestic economy there. Indeed, Japan is the only major country that is going through a structural improvement in corporate governance, and thus deserves special attention by global investors...

In terms of power, shareholders often have the last word, especially with a strong vote. We saw Blackrock demonstrate this on Tuesday as their CEO sent a letter to thousands of companies they hold in mutual funds and ETFs declaring, “a new model for corporate governance .” He went further to say that ...

Airbnb is adding its first independent director to its board, but it won't solve the diversity problem of an all-male board...

As a board of director member, it is your job to oversee the direction of the company. While you have the tenacity and foresight to lead your business, you may find that mistakes are made when it comes to communicating with your employees. There may not be enough communication with your staff or ...

One of the more interesting developments in this area was the formation this past year of the Investor Stewardship Group, when institutional investors managing upwards of US $17 trillion got together to agree on some fairly specific, albeit non-binding, principles of corporate governance...

The influence of activist investors on corporate decision making and the capital markets is as strong as it has ever been.  In advance of what is expected to be another very busy year for shareholder activists and the companies they target, we sat down with...

Learn what a board of directors should look like in 2017 and beyond.

Forrester examines the impact of Uber’s recent data breach...

His fields of expertise include corporations, securities regulation and corporate governance . Elson has written extensively on the subject of boards of directors. He is a frequent contributor on corporate governance issues to various scholarly and popular publications. He is also Vice Chairman of the ABA ...

Liz Elting speaks with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder of theBoardlist who has served on multiple boards, about what responsibility a board of directors has toward a company’s employees in dealing with sexual harassment and predation, and how women serving in that capacity can and must contribute...

I focus on the intersection of government , Wall Street & main street. ... on event-driven catalysts such as M&A and changes to corporate structure...

Private companies continue to struggle with the question “How much should we pay our directors?” There are many variables that determine director compensation: number of yearly meetings, industry, business size, business structure and more. The challenge private companies’ face is that there are few data points against which private companies can benchmark their Board compensation plans...

Perhaps it’s not surprising in our contentious age that corporate board elections have become so combative that they mirror in size and spending statewide political campaigns. In a climate increasingly dominated by activist investors – some of whom used to be known as “corporate raiders” before a smart re-brand – bare-knuckled proxy fights are becoming commonplace...

The members of the board of directors have access to some of the most sensitive information about a company, and yet also often have little or no security to protect that data...

The idea of the all-powerful CEO has long appealed to investors who think that replacing one with another can produce a quick turnaround in a company's fortunes. But it is an outmoded notion that should be targeted with corporate governance reforms...

Uber's board of directors on Sunday selected Expedia's Dara Khosrowshahi as the company's new CEO, according a person familiar with the decision ...

Among the issues to arise from this fight was a particularly nasty corporate governance revelation about a hidden pension liability that takes effect ...

"Whilst the U.K. is a world leader in many facets of corporate governance , that is not the case on board diversity" said a parliamentary report in April ...

More than a thousand current Uber employees have reportedly signed a letter to the startup's board of directors, appealing for former-CEO Travis Kalanick to be brought back "in an operational role...

Improving corporate governance in Japan means investors should not worry about the slow domestic economy there. Indeed, Japan is the only major country that is going through a structural improvement in corporate governance, and thus deserves special attention by global investors...

BoardProspects would like to share with our Members an op/ed by our Founder and CEO, Mark Rogers, which was published today by Forbes...

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Ford Motor Chief Executive Mark Fields is leaving the company, and will be replaced by the head of its Ford Smart Mobility LLC subsidiary, James P. Hackett, the company will announce Monday morning, according to a person familiar with the situation...