ESG issues are growing in materiality and impact for all industries, with significant implications for board responsibilities...

Last year, the Business Roundtable embraced a new paradigm for corporate objectives — stakeholder corporate governance that proposes a ...

Corporate governance after COVID-19: COVID-19 accelerated many trends in 2-1/2 months that might have taken another three to five years to develop...

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... 

Purpose is at centerstage of complex factors redefining board director oversight. The dramatic shift in defining the purpose of the corporation by the Business Roundtable (BRT) from “shareholder primacy” principle in 1997, to a “commitment to all stakeholders” in 2019, is a pivot point for corporations...

As 2019 approaches its end, it is time to look forward to 2020 to think about what the New Year will bring for compensation committees. There will be a continuing evolution of some trends (e.g., pay equity and diversity, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues) as well as some new issues that may be more unique to 2020 (e.g., election year politics and potential economic uncertainty)...

Speaking to the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee in February, SEC Chair Jay Clayton noted that the relevant parts of Regulation S-K were adopted ...

There are few events as significant for the board of directors as the decision to sell the company. Whether public, family-owned or PE-backed, the sale ...

... for the dramatic corporate governance reforms of the past twenty-five years. ... It is important to treat employees well…because it is good business…

The Securities and Exchange Commission's Investor Advisory Committee , for example, recently voted to urge the SEC to consider imposing human ...

She also is on the board of Internet holding company IAC. ... He is a member of the executive and nominating and corporate governance committees ...

It’s a new era of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure and directors need to take notice.

Many investors are voicing concerns about the limited nonfinancial disclosure in companies’ annual reports and proxy disclosures, even for areas like material climate-related risks that have been the subject of Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) guidance. And although most public companies produce sustainability reports for consumers and other corporate stakeholders, these reports often lack the quality, reliability and comparability investors need for financial analysis.