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Board Diversity
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This Businesswoman Shattered the Glass Ceiling and Has Nine Kids
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Why You Should Serve on a Board Now
If you follow the news of workplace sexual misconductand who doesnt these days?youve no doubt heard that investors in any number of companies are clamoring for more women on the board of directors. An investor group pressured Amazon after a woman employee publicly accused an executive of sexually harassing her last fall...Read Full Article -
U.S. Trails Europe in Women CEOs and Board Directors
PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The recent decline of women leading powerhouse companies, now at 4.8%, drops the U.S. below the percentage of women CEOs of Europe's leading companies for the first time...Read Full Article -
Fortune 500: The 12 Companies With Zero Women on Their Boards
...ity. Katherine Klein, a Wharton professor, says meta-analysis shows a “tiny but positive” association between board diversity and financial performance, but she takes issue with the burden such studies foist on women. We...Read Full Article -
Women On Boards: Why The Conversation Matters
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...Read Full Article -
Forget Golf. Women’s Endowment Roles Can Lead to the Boardroom
(Bloomberg Markets) -- The old boys network is costing university endowments money. Investment committees that have female majorities typically generate higher returns than committees that dont. Theres something about the way women lead and the way they collaborate, says Jolyne Caruso-FitzGerald, a 35-year Wall Street veteran and chair of the board of trustees at Barnard College, a womens school in Manhattan. Theres this intimidation factor on mostly male boards...Read Full Article -
Amazon Says its Board has Adopted a "Rooney Rule" to Increase Board Diversity, After its Initial Opposition Sparked Employee Outrage
The company says it is merely formalizing a practice that was already in place. Amazon said on Monday that it would adopt a policy whereby womenRead Full Article -
These are the 10 Tech Companies With the Most Diverse Boards
...ganization also called out six companies (three public, three private) who "went above and beyond" with their board diversity efforts. Those companies are: Stitch Fix (public): Women: 60 percent Independent directors: 40...Read Full Article -
Corporate Boards are Still Mostly White, Mostly Male - and Getting Even Older
Corporate America's boardrooms have long been criticized for being too old, too white and too male. But while therace andgender makeupof corporate boardshave come underscrutiny in recent years -- with shareholders pushing companies to add women and minorities and themedia calling outboard homogeneitywhencompaniestry to tout equal pay -- the age part of the "old boy's club"stereotype has gotten far less attention...Read Full Article -
New SEC Policy Seen as Threat to Proxy Votes
Shareholder rights advocates are now concerned that the SEC is eroding the viability of the proxy process. I think the options are being significantly limited, Christine Jantz, founder and president of Jantz Management, which submitted shareholder resolutions for the current proxy season, told SP Global Market Intelligence...Read Full Article -
Corporate Boards Are Looking for CEOs Who Aren’t Old White Men
For most of the past decade, Cheryl Miller has spent her days trying to put more cars on Americas roadsfirst as the treasurer and now as the chief financial officer of AutoNation Inc. , the largest auto retailer in the U.S. And for the past year shes been working on behalf of another of the countrys biggest companies, Tyson Foods Inc. , as one of the newest members of its board ...Read Full Article -
One in 10 of Britain’s Biggest Firms Falling Short on Boardroom Gender Targets
One in 10 of Britains biggest firms falling short on boardroom gender targets Oil giant BP is among 35 companies being taken to task for failing to meet gender targets (Nick Ansell/PA) 0 comments Oil giant BP and retailer Sports Direct are among 35 of the UKs biggest companies being taken to task for failing to meet targets to increase the number of women in the boardroom...Read Full Article -
Activist Investors Should Taker the Lead on Board Diversity
Activist investors have the power to get more women on corporate boards, should they choose to use it. Elliott Management Corp. called this week for operational changes and a board overhaul at data-management software company Commvault Systems Inc...Read Full Article -
How Board Diversity Might have Prevented the Theranos Fiasco
...ruth to promote her company. But we can find a broader lesson if we look at the company's board of directors: Board diversity can be an effective safeguard against bad apples. Before the scandal broke, the Theranos board...Read Full Article
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Quotes about Board Diversity
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Often when we engage with companies on the issue of board diversity we hear that the biggest challenge is a lack of suitable female candidates.
In Investor State Street Uses Financial Clout to Get More Women to the Top -
While our board has determined not to make a recommendation either in favour of or opposed to the shareholder proposal, we believe that our current practices and recent enhancements to our new director candidate selection process support board diversity.
In With No Women on its Board, Shareholder Calls for Diversity Policy at Tim Hortons owner RBI -
Our purpose here is to shine a spotlight on board diversity in real estate and highlight that the performance benefits of inclusion found in companies globally, applies to real estate companies domestically.
In In Real Estate, It Pays to Put Women on the Board, Study Shows
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